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Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms (ACELA1464)

Elaborations
  • exploring how texts develop their themes and ideas, building information through connecting similar and contrasting dissimilar things
  • mapping examples of word associations in texts, for example words that refer to the main character
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Word meanings,  Word games,  Cohesion (Language)

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