ACELA1482

Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense

Elaborations

• identifying different types of verbs and the way they add meaning to a sentence (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• exploring 'doing' and 'saying' verbs in narrative texts to show how they give information about what characters do and say (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• exploring the use of sensing verbs and how they allow readers to know what characters think and feel (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• exploring the use of relating verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb, for example 'She arrived’, ‘She is arriving’ and adverbials of time, for example ‘She arrived yesterday’, ‘She is arriving in the morning’ (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

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