Evaluating a Speaker's Argument
Your child can sum up what a speaker claims and the proof they give. They judge whether the reasons really back it up.
In curriculum terms
Summarise the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence, evaluating the logic and relevance of the support
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When your child listens to a speaker making a case for something, can they explain back to you both what the speaker claimed and the reasons and evidence they gave to back it 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 · 2 ACARA · 1 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used
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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.