AC9E5LY03
Official content description
explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
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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 Literacy progression either side of AC9E5LY03
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Taught before · Year 4
- AC9E4LY01compare texts from different times with similar purposes and audiences to identify similarities and differences in their depictions of events
- AC9E4LY02listen for key points and information to carry out tasks and contribute to discussions, acknowledging another opinion, linking a response to the topic, and sharing and extending ideas and information
- AC9E4LY03identify the characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
Builds towards · Year 6
- AC9E6LY01examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
- AC9E6LY02use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
- AC9E6LY03analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences
Other Year 5 Literacy codes
- AC9E5LY01describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created
- AC9E5LY02use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea
- AC9E5LY04navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming
- AC9E5LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
- AC9E5LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation
- AC9E5LY07plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features
- AC9E5LY08use phonic, morphemic and vocabulary knowledge to read and spell words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations
- AC9E5LY09build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations
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