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English / Year 5 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

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Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (ACELA1512)

Elaborations
  • moving from general, ‘all-purpose’ words, for example ‘cut’, to more specific words, for example ‘slice’, ‘dice’, ‘fillet’, ‘segment’
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
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