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English / Year 5 / Literacy / Interacting with others
Curriculum content descriptions
use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea (AC9E5LY02)
Elaborations
- participating in pair, group, class and school speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions and presentations
- asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions
- using strategies for discussion, such as speaking clearly, pausing, asking questions and linking students’ own responses to the contributions of others
- choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer an opinion and to persuade others
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Conversations, Speaking, Social relations