Abstract nouns
Your child can name things you cannot see or touch, like freedom, courage and childhood. They tell these from solid things like a table.
In curriculum terms
Understand and use abstract nouns to name ideas, qualities, and states that cannot be perceived by the senses
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Can your child write a sentence using an abstract word like "kindness", "freedom", or "happiness" — knowing these are nouns even though you can't touch or see them?
Where this sits on the map
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solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups
understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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