Year 3 English · Australian Curriculum v9
Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
Content descriptor
Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose.
- Code
- AC9E3LA03
- Year level
- Year 3
- Subject
- English
- Strand
- Language
- Sub-strand
- Text structure and organisation
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Learning intention
We are learning to describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose.
Cloze sentence
Describe how texts across the use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose.
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- AC9E3LA01Understand that cooperation with others depends on shared understanding of social conventions, including turn-taking language, which vary according to the degree of formality
- AC9E3LA02Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
- AC9E3LA04Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of the stages of written texts, grouping related information together
- AC9E3LA05Identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation
- AC9E3LA06Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree
- AC9E3LA07Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating
- AC9E3LA08Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense
- AC9E3LA09Identify how images extend the meaning of a text
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What is AC9E3LA03?
AC9E3LA03 is a content descriptor in the Year 3 English curriculum (Australian Curriculum v9, Language strand). It asks students to describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose.
What year level is AC9E3LA03?
AC9E3LA03 sits in the Year 3 English curriculum.
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