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understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating (AC9E3LA07)

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  • exploring “doing” and “saying” verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say
  • exploring the use of sensing verbs and how they allow readers to understand what characters think and feel; for example, “He remembered his first day at school.”
  • exploring the use of relating verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions; for example, identifying the relating verb “is” or “are”, “has” or “have” in descriptions of animals
  • identifying different types of verbs and the way they control meaning in a clause
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