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understand the effect of nominalisation in texts (AC9E8LA06)

Elaborations
  • highlighting examples of nominalisation in a range of texts including informative texts and explaining the impact on content and tone
  • nominalising relevant verbs in a series of sentences and discussing the impact of the change in tone on potential audiences
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Nominalisation

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Simple sentences: are not necessarily simple!

This guide is intended to provide a starting point for you to approach the teaching of writing in your classroom. It provides information about syntax; phrases and clauses; simple sentence structure and some common problems with sentences. This guide provides suggestions for teaching sentences in the classroom. It also ...

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Improving the formality of students’ writing – nominalisation

This blog post explains how a practising teacher supports students to develop a confident and formal tone by teaching them to nominalise in their writing.

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How to write in plain English

This guide looks at the main ways to make writing clearer, including keeping sentences short, and use of active verbs. It explores the types of words that contribute to clarity and provides tips about the use of lists. The guide then deals with some of the myths that can get in the way of clear communication. The guide ...

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Syllabus bites: types of sentences

A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.

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Complex sentences: Creating agility and depth in your writing

Complex sentences are an important step in enabling students to produce more sophisticated writing. Mastering complex sentences allows students to have greater control when communicating. This resource provides information about topics such as Dependent clauses, Nominalisation and Subordinating conjunctions. This guide ...

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Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...