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Adjectival Clause

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A type of dependent clause that operates as an adjective to give more information to a noun or pronoun in a sentence.

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Adjectival Phrase

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A group of words (usually beginning with a preposition) that gives more information about a noun.

For example:

The girl with brown curly hair sat at the front.
The flowers in the vase were wilting.

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Adjective

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A word class that describes, identifies or quantifies a noun or a pronoun. Different types of adjectives include possessive, quantifying, descriptive, comparative, superlative and classifying.

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Adverb

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A word that tells something about a verb, adjective or another adverb. Indicates things like manner, place or time. An adverb commonly ends in -ly.

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Adverbial Clause

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A dependent clause that modifies a verb, adjective, adverb or a main clause in a sentence.

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Adverbial Phrase

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A group of words that provides information about where, when, with what, how far, how long, with whom, about what or as what.

For example:

He swept the floor with an old broom.
Throughout time people have attempted to halt old age.

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Aesthetic

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Relating to a sense of beauty or an appreciation of artistic expression.

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Analyse

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Identify components and the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications.

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Anaphora

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Grammar – a word or phrase that references an earlier word or phrase.

Rhetoric – the intentional repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several clauses, sentences, stanzas or paragraphs.

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Antonym

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A word or phrase that has the opposite meaning of another word or phrase.

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Apositive

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A noun or pronoun that is positioned beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it. An appositive often includes modifiers.

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Appreciate

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Make a judgement about the value of.

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Appropriation

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Taking a text or component of a text (such as a character or plot) from one context and using it in another context.

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Argument

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A stated position about an idea.

The way in which various dimensions of a text (such as theme, perspective and style) can be understood to represent a particular position on an issue.

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Assess

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Make a judgement of value, quality, outcomes, results or size.

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Assimilated Prefix

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A bound morpheme that is added before a base word and where its last letter changes to match the first letter of the base word. For example, in + mature = immature.

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Audience

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Readers, listeners or viewers who engage with a text

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Authority

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Authority of a text – How trustworthy, authentic or valid an audience may find the representation of ideas, experiences, perspectives and arguments in a text.

Authority over a text – The varying degrees to which the meaning of a text is controlled or constructed by its creator(s) and by its audience.

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Authoriship

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Origin as to author, composer, or compiler. For example, the authorship of a book.

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Automacity

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The fast, accurate and effortless word recognition that comes with practice. NESA acknowledges that reading aloud may include the use of Auslan, assistive technology or AACs.

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Background Knowledge

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Information that is important for understanding a subject.

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Basw Word

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A morpheme (meaningful unit) that stands freely on its own to make a word.

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Blend

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The act of synthesising phonemes smoothly from left to right, to read words.

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Casual Connective

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A word or groups of words used as a cohesive device between sentences, when explaining how something works or why something happens.

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Character
A person (or animal) created in a text (usually narrative) to represent human characteristics including physical, emotional and intellectual characteristics, habits and behaviour.
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Characterisation
The technical construction and representation of any personality or person-like figure in text, including features such as their appearance, actions, words or thoughts.
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Clarify
Make clear or plain.
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Dependant Clause
A dependent clause (also known as subordinate clause) is a group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence.
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Main Clause
A main clause (also known as principal or independent clause) is a clause that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
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Code and Convention
Agreed systems of making, communicating and interpreting meaning.
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Cohesive Devices
Words or phrases that indicate a relationship with other words, phrases, clauses or paragraphs across a text.
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Communication Systems
The range of communication forms used by a person. Communication systems are specifically designed to meet people’s individual needs.
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Compare
Show how things are similar or different.
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Complex Sentence
Formed by adding one or more dependent (subordinate) clauses to a main (independent) clause using subordinating conjunctions and/or relative pronouns.
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Compose
Develop and/or produce signed, spoken, written or multimodal texts in print, visual, oral or digital forms.
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Compound Sentence
A sentence comprising 2 or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
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Compound Word
A word consisting of 2 or more base words, e.g. farmyard = farm + yard.
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Condition Connective
A word, or groups of words, that describes the condition that needs to be met for something to happen. This may be in the form of a word ‘if’ or phrase ‘in this case’.
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Conjunction
A form of connective. A word or group of words used to link together words, phrases or clauses within sentences.
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Connective
A word or group of words used to connect clauses and sentences. A connective is commonly a conjunction, a preposition or an adverb.
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Connotation
The nuances or implied meaning attached to language, beyond that of its literal or dictionary meanings. Connotations may be positive, negative, or neutral.
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Consonant Diagraph
Two consonant graphemes used to represent one phoneme. ## Footnote For example: th in that sh in shy kn in knee
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Consonant Phenome
A speech sound produced with a complete or partial obstruction of the flow of air by the teeth, lips, tongue and/or voice.
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Construct
Make; build; put together items or arguments.
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Context
The range of personal, situational, social, historical and cultural circumstances that shape how texts and their representations are conceived, constructed, understood and interpreted.
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Contraction
A shortened form of one or 2 words (one of which is usually a verb). In a contraction, an apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter or letters.
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Contrast
Show how things are different or opposite.
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Conventions
Accepted practices or features that help define textual forms, creative forms, styles and meaning.
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Coordinating Conjuction
A word or group of words that function to link 2 independent clauses within a sentence.
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CVC words
Words formed by a consonant-vowel-consonant. For example, cat, bag, pen.
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Create
Develop and/or produce signed, spoken, written or multimodal texts in print, visual, oral or digital forms.
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Declerative Sentence
A statement presented as a complete sentence to provide fact, evidence or detail. For example: Drinking water is important for your health.
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Derivational Word Form
A new word that is formed from another word, usually by adding a derivational suffix to change its grammatical form. For example, the noun, proposition, derives from the verb, propose, and contains the derivational suffix, -ion.
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Dialogue
A conversation between 2 or more people: the conversation between characters in a text, an exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, or a literary work in the form of a conversation.
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Diagraph
Two graphemes used to represent one phoneme. For example: consonant digraphs – sh, ck, th split digraphs – a-e, i-e, o-e vowel digraphs – ee, oo, ea.
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Dipthong
A type of vowel phoneme, also known as a glide vowel, formed by combining 2 vowel sounds within a single syllable. For example, /oi/ in join, /ou/ in proud.
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Discursive Text
Texts whose primary focus is to explore an idea or variety of topics. These texts involve the discussion of an idea(s) or opinion(s) without the direct intention of persuading the reader, listener or viewer to adopt any single point of view.
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Etymology
The origins of, and changes to, words in relation to meaning. Words derived from earlier or other languages, place names, words derived from people's names, coinages.
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Figurative Language
Word groups/phrases used differently from the expected or everyday usage to express an idea in a non-literal way for a particular effect.
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Fleuncy
Reading, speaking, encoding and spelling with appropriate pace and accuracy.
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Homonym
A word having the same sound and the same spelling as another, but a different meaning.
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Homophone
A word having the same sound as another but different spelling and meaning.
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Interpersonal Conventions
Contextually purposeful language resources used for interacting; expressing ideas, opinions and feelings; and/or for taking a stance.
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Lexical Cohesion
The use of word associations to create links in texts. Examples of links are the use of repetition of words, pronouns, synonyms, antonyms and words that are related, such as by class and subclass.
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Metalanguage
Technical terms used to describe and discuss how language and texts function.
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Morphologocal Generalisation
A spelling term that describes the manipulation and control of a particular base or root word when it is affixed with a prefix and/or suffix.
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Nominalisation
A process of transforming actions or events (verbs) or descriptions of nouns and pronouns (adjectives) into things, concepts or people (nouns). It can also refer to the process of forming noun groups from clauses. Nominalisation is often a feature of texts that contain abstract ideas and concepts
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Salience
A strategy used to highlight what is important in a text.
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Schwa
A reduced vowel phoneme occurring in an unaccented (unstressed) syllable of a multisyllabic word. For example, in the word ‘problem’ the final vowel phoneme is unstressed and is said quickly and quietly, and with less emphasis.

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