Year 3 English lesson resources
Every Year 3 English content descriptor in the Australian Curriculum v9. Pick a descriptor to see aligned, classroom-ready resources, or generate a full lesson set from any of them in minutes.
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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
- AC9E3LA03Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
- 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
- AC9E3LA10Extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
- AC9E3LA11Understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession
Literature
- AC9E3LE01Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
- AC9E3LE02Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences
- AC9E3LE03Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
- AC9E3LE04Discuss the effects of some literary devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
- AC9E3LE05Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
Literacy
- AC9E3LY01Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences
- AC9E3LY02Use interaction skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas
- AC9E3LY03Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images
- AC9E3LY04Read a range of texts using phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently, re-reading and self-correcting when required
- AC9E3LY05Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
- AC9E3LY06Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words
- AC9E3LY07Plan, create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations to inform, express opinions or tell stories, using a clear structure, details to elaborate ideas, topic-specific and precise vocabulary, visual features, and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume
- AC9E3LY08Write words using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size
- AC9E3LY09Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
- AC9E3LY10Understand how to apply knowledge of common base words, prefixes, suffixes and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to read and comprehend new multimorphemic words
- AC9E3LY11Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
- AC9E3LY12Recognise and know how to write most high-frequency words including some homophones
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