AC9E6LA03
Official content description
explain 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
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What Year 6 English students should achieve
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- By the end of Year 6, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.
- They use and vary language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
- They use and vary language features including sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.
- They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.
- They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features influence audiences.
- For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop, explain and elaborate on ideas from topics or texts.
The Language progression either side of AC9E6LA03
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Taught before · 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
Builds towards · Year 7
- AC9E7LA01understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
- AC9E7LA02recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
- AC9E7LA03identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Other Year 6 Language codes
- AC9E6LA01understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
- AC9E6LA02understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
- AC9E6LA04understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations
- AC9E6LA05understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
- AC9E6LA06understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups
- AC9E6LA07identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning
- AC9E6LA08identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
- AC9E6LA09understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue
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