AC9E5LA01
Official content description
understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships
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What Year 5 English students should achieve
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- For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop and expand on ideas and opinions, using supporting details from topics or texts.
- They explain how characteristic text structures support the purpose of texts.
- They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text.
- They use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.
- They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
- They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.
The Language progression either side of AC9E5LA01
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Taught before · 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
Builds towards · Year 6
- AC9E6LA01understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
- AC9E6LA02understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
- AC9E6LA03explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
Other Year 5 Language codes
- 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
- AC9E5LA04understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
- AC9E5LA05understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes a main clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect
- AC9E5LA06understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
- AC9E5LA07explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning
- AC9E5LA08understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words
- AC9E5LA09use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession
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