AC9E4LA07
Official content description
investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used
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What Year 4 English students should achieve
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- They write texts using clearly formed letters with developing fluency.
- They read fluently and accurately, integrating phonic, morphemic, grammatical and punctuation knowledge.
- They use text structures to organise and link ideas.
- They create written and/or multimodal texts including stories for purposes and audiences, where they develop ideas using details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.
- They spell words including multisyllabic and multimorphemic words with irregular spelling patterns, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.
- They describe how ideas are developed including through characters and events, and how texts reflect contexts.
The Language progression either side of AC9E4LA07
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Taught before · Year 3
- 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
Builds towards · Year 5
- AC9E5LA01understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships
- AC9E5LA02understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
- AC9E5LA03describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts
Other Year 4 Language codes
- 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
- AC9E4LA04identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas
- AC9E4LA05identify text navigation features of online texts that enhance readability including headlines, drop-down menus, links, graphics and layout
- AC9E4LA06understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality
- AC9E4LA08understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
- AC9E4LA09understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence
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