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AC9E6LA08

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Your child is learning to judge how a writer's words act on the reader.

  • Explain how a specific metaphor or simile affects the reader's understanding or emotions
  • Evaluate an author's choice of descriptive language and its impact on atmosphere
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One skill from the map, ages 10–11 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

“identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole”
EnglishYear 6Language strand

Official source: Australian Curriculum v9 — English ↗ · Content © ACARA, CC BY 4.0 · unofficial reference — verify at the official site

Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

high confidence1 skill

Figurative Language and Literary DevicesReading Comprehensionages 11–14
8 other candidate matches — 5 medium, 3 low

medium confidence

Advanced Figurative LanguageVocabularyages 11–14 Similes & MetaphorsVocabularyages 9–11 Literary and Language TerminologyGrammar & Punctuationages 11–14 Vivid Word ChoicesWriting Compositionages 8–10 Cultural Allusions and Word MeaningReading Comprehensionages 9–10

low confidence

Academic VocabularyVocabularyages 11–14 Poetic forms and conventionsReading Comprehensionages 11–14 Using a Thesaurus to Choose WordsVocabularyages 10–11

Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.

Nearby in the Language strand:
AC9E6LA01AC9E6LA02AC9E6LA03AC9E6LA04AC9E6LA05AC9E6LA06AC9E6LA07AC9E6LA09

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