English Grammar & Punctuationusually ages 7–9

Pronouns for clarity

Choose pronouns for clarity and cohesion, avoiding ambiguity and repetition; use reflexive pronouns correctly (e.g., myself, ourselves, himself)

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Replace repeated nouns with pronouns to improve cohesion: rewrite 'Sam picked up Sam's bag' as 'Sam picked up his bag'
Use reflexive pronouns correctly in sentences (e.g. 'I made it myself', 'They helped themselves')
Identify and fix ambiguous pronoun references (e.g. 'Tom told Jack he was late' — who was late?)

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When your child writes a paragraph about two people — like two characters in a story — do they use "he", "she", and "they" clearly enough that you always know who is being talked about?

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Builds on

Pronounsages 6–7Pronoun cohesion and reflexive pronouns build on basic pronoun usage

Pronouns for claritythis skill · ages 7–9

Unlocks

Agreement in sentencesages 8–10Pronoun-antecedent agreement requires pronoun cohesion knowledge

Cohesion within paragraphsages 9–11Pronoun cohesion is a key cohesive device; prior work on choosing pronouns for clarity feeds directly into paragraph-level cohesion

Relative Clausesages 9–10Relative pronouns (who, which, that) overlap with pronoun knowledge; pronoun cohesion supports understanding pronoun reference in relative clauses

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E2LA04medium confidenceYear 2 · Language

understand how texts are made cohesive by using personal and possessive pronouns and by omitting words that can be inferred

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E2LA04medium confidenceEnglish · Level 2 · Language strand

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.

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