English / Year 5 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

Curriculum content descriptions

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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