Language

Outcomes

  • Text structure and organisation
    • VCELA369
      Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors
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    • VCELA380
      Understand that the coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example overviews, initial and concluding paragraphs and topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts
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    • VCELA381
      Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses
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  • Expressing and developing ideas
    • VCELA384
      Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins to learn new words and how to spell them
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