English / Year 6 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

Curriculum content descriptions

Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525)

Elaborations
  • identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Alliterations,  Figures of speech

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