Level 4 Grammar
Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people (ACELA1428).
Language
Literature
Literacy
Language for interaction
Responding to literature
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604).
Texts in context
Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (ACELY1686).
Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490).
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491).
Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech (ACELA1492).
Text structure and organisation
Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns (ACELT1606).
Examining literature
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689).
Interacting with others
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493).
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity (ACELA1495).
Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling (ACELA1780).
Expressing and developing ideas
Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1690).
Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing (ACELY1691).
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694).
Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695).
Creating texts
Syntax
Morphology
Semantics
Functional Grammar