Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
Year 7
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (AC9E7LA02) |
| Text structure and organisation | identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts (AC9E7LA03) understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs (AC9E7LA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning (AC9E7LA09) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E7LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response (AC9E7LE02) explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (AC9E7LE03) discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (AC9E7LE04) |
| Examining literature | identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives (AC9E7LE05) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts (AC9E7LE07) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts (AC9E7LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (AC9E7LY03) explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology (AC9E7LY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas (AC9E7LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E7LY06) plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace (AC9E7LY07) |
Year 8
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | explain how texts are structured depending on their purpose and how language features vary, recognising that some texts are hybrids that combine different genres or elements of different genres (AC9E8LA03) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | examine a variety of clause structures including embedded clauses that add information and expand ideas in sentences (AC9E8LA05) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | explain the ways that ideas and points of view may represent the values of individuals and groups in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E8LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | share opinions about the language features, literary devices and text structures that contribute to the styles of literary texts (AC9E8LE02) explain how language and/or images in texts position readers to respond and form viewpoints (AC9E8LE03) |
| Examining literature | analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect (AC9E8LE05) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects (AC9E8LE06) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | identify how texts reflect contexts (AC9E8LY01) |
| Interacting with others | use interaction skills for identified purposes and situations, including when supporting or challenging the stated or implied meanings of spoken texts in presentations or discussion (AC9E8LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text (AC9E8LY03) analyse how authors organise ideas to develop and shape meaning (AC9E8LY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in texts (AC9E8LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E8LY06) plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for audiences and purposes, selecting language features, literary devices, visual features and features of voice to suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in texts in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E8LY07) |