understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a NAPLAN-year topic. Bloomi teaches it with a short explainer, guided practice, and NAPLAN-style questions — every one traceable to this exact code.

What this looks like in the classroom

• exploring how modal verbs; for example, “must”, “might” and “could”, indicate degrees of probability or obligation
• recognising how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts
• exploring examples of language that demonstrate a range of emotions and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgements about characters or events; for example, “the wizard was cunning, expert, inventive”