AC9E3LA06
Official content description
understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree
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What Year 3 English students should achieve
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- They write texts using letters that are accurately formed and consistent in size.
- They group, logically sequence and link ideas.
- They use text structures including paragraphs, and language features including compound sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features.
- By the end of Year 3, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories.
- They create written and/or multimodal texts including stories to inform, narrate, explain or argue for audiences, relating ideas including relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.
- They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary, and/or visual features and features of voice.
The Language progression either side of AC9E3LA06
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Taught before · Year 2
- AC9E2LA01investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions
- AC9E2LA02explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences
- AC9E2LA03identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
Builds towards · Year 4
- AC9E4LA01explore language used to develop relationships in formal and informal situations
- AC9E4LA02identify the subjective language of opinion and feeling, and the objective language of factual reporting
- AC9E4LA03identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes
Other Year 3 Language codes
- 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
- 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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