Grammar Terms: Voice and Punctuation
Your child can use grammar names like subject, object and active or passive voice. They can name marks like the colon and semicolon.
In curriculum terms
Know and use Year 6 grammatical terminology accurately: subject, object, active voice, passive voice, synonym, antonym, ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If you ask your child to find the "subject" and "object" in a sentence, or to explain what a "semi-colon" or "ellipsis" does, can they give you a confident and accurate answer?
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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 · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that punctuation signals dialogue through quotation marks and that dialogue follows conventions for the use of capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation
describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts
investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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