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English / Year 5 / Language / Language for expressing and developing ideas
Curriculum content descriptions
understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words (AC9E5LA08)
Elaborations
- using precise words for naming; for example, instead of “mammal” or “whale”, using “humpback whale”
- exploring Greek and Latin roots in commonly used words; for example, the Greek root word “tele” meaning distant in words such as “telephone” and “teleport”
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