Types of Sentences
Choose among and construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal different relationships among ideas, varying sentence patterns deliberately for meaning, interest, and style
How to tell they’ve got it
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When your child is writing for effect — like building tension in a story or structuring an argument — do they deliberately vary their sentence types, mixing short punchy sentences with longer, more complex ones?
Where this sits on the map
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solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 1 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes a main clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect
understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
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.