Language:

• Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language, can express shades of meaning, feeling, and opinion.
• Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words.
• Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses.
• Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend, and explain ideas.

Literacy

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
• Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
• Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions

• Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences, and opinions.
• Analyze strategies authors use to influence readers.
• Select, navigate, and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, such as table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings, and subheadings.