Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
Year 7
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities (AC9E7LA01) 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 | 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 | analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective (AC9E7LA07) |
| 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 | 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) |
Year 8
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | recognise how language shapes relationships and roles (AC9E8LA01) |
| Text structure and organisation | |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance and layer meaning (AC9E8LA07) identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts (AC9E8LA08) |
| 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 | identify intertextual references in literary texts and explain how the references enable new understanding of the aesthetic quality of the text (AC9E8LE04) 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 | |
| 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 how authors organise ideas to develop and shape meaning (AC9E8LY04) |
| Creating texts |
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
Year 7
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities (ACELA1529) Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (ACELA1782) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that the coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example overviews, initial and concluding paragraphs and topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts (ACELA1763) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle and social distance (ACELA1764) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1619) |
| Responding to literature | Reflect on ideas and opinions about characters, settings and events in literary texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others and justifying a point of view (ACELT1620) |
| Examining literature | Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (ACELT1621) Discuss aspects of texts, for example their aesthetic and social value, using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (ACELT1803) Recognise and analyse the ways that characterisation, events and settings are combined in narratives, and discuss the purposes and appeal of different approaches (ACELT1622) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELT1625) Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using rhythm, sound effects, monologue, layout, navigation and colour (ACELT1805) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information, selecting body language, voice qualities and other elements, (for example music and sound) to add interest and meaning (ACELY1804) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing (ACELY1720) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (ACELY1721) Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts (ACELY1722) Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (ACELY1723) Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences (ACELY1724) |
| Creating texts | Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725) Edit for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, reordering sentences and adding or substituting words for impact (ACELY1726) Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts (ACELY1728) |
Year 8
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand how conventions of speech adopted by communities influence the identities of people in those communities (ACELA1541) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs through the use of examples, quotations and substantiation of claims (ACELA1766) Understand the use of punctuation conventions, including colons, semicolons, dashes and brackets in formal and informal texts (ACELA1544) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA1548) Recognise that vocabulary choices contribute to the specificity, abstraction and style of texts (ACELA1547) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Explore the ways that ideas and viewpoints in literary texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts may reflect or challenge the values of individuals and groups (ACELT1626) |
| Responding to literature | Share, reflect on, clarify and evaluate opinions and arguments about aspects of literary texts (ACELT1627) Understand and explain how combinations of words and images in texts are used to represent particular groups in society, and how texts position readers in relation to those groups (ACELT1628) |
| Examining literature | Recognise, explain and analyse the ways literary texts draw on readers’ knowledge of other texts and enable new understanding and appreciation of aesthetic qualities (ACELT1629) Identify and evaluate devices that create tone, for example humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody in poetry, humorous prose, drama or visual texts (ACELT1630) Interpret and analyse language choices, including sentence patterns, dialogue, imagery and other language features, in short stories, literary essays and plays (ACELT1767) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that draw upon text structures and language features of other texts for particular purposes and effects (ACELT1632) Experiment with particular language features drawn from different types of texts, including combinations of language and visual choices to create new texts (ACELT1768) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills for identified purposes, using voice and language conventions to suit different situations, selecting vocabulary, modulating voice and using elements such as music, images and sound for specific effects (ACELY1808) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content, including multimodal elements, to reflect a diversity of viewpoints (ACELY1731) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts (ACELY1733) Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on the validity of content and the credibility of sources, including finding evidence in the text for the author’s point of view (ACELY1734) Explore and explain the ways authors combine different modes and media in creating texts, and the impact of these choices on the viewer/listener (ACELY1735) |
| Creating texts | Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736) Experiment with text structures and language features to refine and clarify ideas to improve the effectiveness of students’ own texts (ACELY1810) Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to create, edit and publish texts imaginatively (ACELY1738) |
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