Basic Nouns & Verbs
Your child can use naming words for people and things, like dog and school. They use action words too, like run, eat and play.
In curriculum terms
Use frequently occurring nouns (people, places, things) and verbs (action words) appropriately in speech and writing
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How to tell they’ve got it
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When your child talks or writes about everyday things — like "the dog runs" or "Mum cooks dinner" — do they use the right kind of words for things (nouns) and actions (verbs) without mixing them up?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups
understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.