Punctuation


 * PUNCTUATION **
 * **YEAR LEVEL ** || **ENGLISH STRANDS ** || **ENGLISH SUB-STRANDS ** || **SUB-STRAND ELEMENT ** || **ELABORATION ** || **ENGLISH TYPE ** || **ELEMENT CODE ** || **GENERAL CAPABILITIES ** || **CROSS-CURRICULA PRIORITIES ** ||
 * 0F || LANGUAGE || Text structure and organisation || Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences (ACELA1432) || pointing to the letters and the punctuation in a text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">commenting on punctuation encountered in the everyday texts, for example ‘That’s the letter that starts my name’, ‘The name of my family and my town has a capital letter’ || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1432) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and web-based texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 1.5;">using speaking, writing and drawing to represent and communicate personal responses to ideas and events experienced through texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using beginning concepts about print, sound–letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1651) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy , Personal and social competence || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops (ACELY1652) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">rereading collaboratively developed texts to check that they communicate what the authors intended || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1652) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation when reading

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• reading texts and identifying different sentence-level punctuation

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• writing different types of sentences, for example statements and questions, and discussing appropriate punctuation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1449) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation (ACELY1662) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• adding or deleting words on page or screen to improve meaning, for example adding an adjective to a noun

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• reading the students’ own work aloud to listen for grammatical correctness: checking use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• checking for inclusion of capital letters and full stops

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• identifying words which might not be spelt correctly

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• beginning to use dictionaries and classroom charts to check and correct spelling of less familiar words || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1662) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists (ACELA1465) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">talking about how a comma can be used to separate two or more elements in a list, for example ‘At the museum they saw a Tasmanian tiger, a dinosaur and two snakes’ || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1465) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure (ACELY1672) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading their work and adding, deleting or changing words, prepositional phrases or sentences to improve meaning, for example replacing an everyday noun with a technical one in an informative text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">checking spelling using a dictionary <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 1.5;">checking for inclusion of relevant punctuation including capital letters to signal names, as well as sentence beginnings, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making significant changes to their texts using a word processing program ( for example add, delete or move sentences) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1672) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">recognising both grammatically accurate and inaccurate usage of the apostrophe in everyday texts such as signs in the community and newspaper advertisements || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1480) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation (ACELY1683) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using glossaries, print and digital dictionaries and spell check to edit spelling, realising that spell check accuracy depends on understanding the word function, for example there/their; rain/reign || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">ACELY1683) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and reported speech (ACELA1492) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring texts to identify the use of quotation marks

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">experimenting with the use of quotation marks in students’ own writing || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1492) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Top of Form
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text (ACELA1494) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">investigating examples of quoted (direct) speech (‘He said, “I’ll go to the park today”’) and reported (indirect) speech (‘He told me he was going to the park today’) and comparing similarities and differences || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1494) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">revising written texts: editing for grammatical and spelling accuracy and clarity of the text, to improve the connection between ideas and the overall flow of the piece || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1695) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand how possession is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes of possession for common and proper nouns (ACELA1506) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">examining how conventions of punctuation are used in written and digitally composed lists and learning that in Standard Australian English it is not necessary to add another ‘s’ to the end of a plural noun to indicate possession (‘James' house’/ ‘my parents' car’) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1506) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses (ACELA1521) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying different uses of commas in texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1521) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||