Determiners and articles
Your child can use words like a, an and the before naming words. They say a ball and an apple, and this or that to point.
In curriculum terms
Use determiners (articles a/an/the and demonstratives this/that/these/those) correctly before nouns
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How to tell they’ve got it
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When your child writes about something nearby versus something far away, do they use the right word — saying "this book" for one in their hand and "that book" for one across the room?
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 · 1 ACARA
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
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.