Building sentences
Your child can build a full sentence that makes sense on its own. They know a sentence needs a naming part and an action.
In curriculum terms
Understand that words combine to make sentences — a sentence expresses a complete thought; produce and expand complete sentences in speech and writing
Ages are typical, not deadlines — follow your child’s pace. How to help at home →
How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child says something like "The dog", can they tell you that's not a complete sentence — and add words to make it say something like "The dog ran fast"?
Where this sits on the map
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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 a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea
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.