Supporting ideas with evidence
Your child can match each of a writer's points to the proof behind it. They judge whether that proof is strong enough.
In curriculum terms
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which specific points
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After reading a persuasive text, can your child map out which reasons the author uses to support which specific points — showing that they understand the structure of the argument, not just the conclusion?
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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 · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
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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.