AC9E5LA02 • Year 5 English

Evaluative Language and Shades of Meaning (AC9E5LA02)

understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources

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Unit focus

  • Students identify positive and negative evaluation, compare intensity and connotation and select modal, adjectival, verbal and adverbial choices that match evidence, audience and purpose.
  • Use this routine: Notice → Analyse → Interpret → Apply → Create → Review.
  • Watch for strongest wording is most persuasive: Overstatement can weaken credibility.
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