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) |
| 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) |
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