Government Standards
Australian Curriculum
Language Arts - Grade 3
Assessment Exam - Australian Curriculum - Level 3 English| Language | eTAP Lesson |
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| Language variation and change | |
| Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning
AU.3.ACELA1475 |
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| Language for interaction | |
| Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations
AU.3.ACELA1476 |
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| Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
AU.3.ACELA1477 |
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| Text structure and organisation | |
| Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)
AU.3.ACELA1478 |
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| Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
AU.3.ACELA1479 |
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| Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters
AU.3.ACELA1480 |
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| Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation
AU.3.ACELA1790 |
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| Expressing and developing ideas | |
| Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement
AU.3.ACELA1481 |
Verbs |
| Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense
AU.3.ACELA1482 |
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| Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segment
AU.3.ACELA1483 |
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| Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs
AU.3.ACELA1484 |
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| Phonics and word knowledge | |
| Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
AU.3.ACELA1485 |
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| Recognise and know how to write most high frequency words including some homophones
AU.3.ACELA1486 |
Antonyms, Synonyms, Homophones & Homographs |
| Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
AU.3.ACELA1826 |
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| Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word
AU.3.ACELA1827 |
Prefixes & Suffixes |
| Literature | eTAP Lesson |
| Literature and context | |
| Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
AU.3.ACELT1594 |
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| Responding to literature | |
| Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others
AU.3.ACELT1596 |
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| Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature
AU.3.ACELT1598 |
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| Examining literature | |
| Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
AU.3.ACELT1599 |
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| Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
AU.3.ACELT1600 |
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| Creating literature | |
| Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle
AU.3.ACELT1601 |
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| Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue
AU.3.ACELT1791 |
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| Literacy | eTAP Lesson |
| Texts in context | |
| Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
AU.3.ACELY1675 |
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| Interacting with others | |
| Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations
AU.3.ACELY1676 |
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| Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume
AU.3.ACELA1792 |
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| Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence
AU.3.ACELY1677 |
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| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | |
| Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
AU.3.ACELY1678 |
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| Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting
AU.3.ACELY1679 |
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| Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
AU.3.ACELY1680 |
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| Creating texts | |
| Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
AU.3.ACELY1682 |
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| Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
AU.3.ACELY1683 |
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| Write using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size
AU.3.ACELY1684 |
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| Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements
AU.3.ACELY1685 |
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