Year 10 English Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 10 English by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 10, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts including literary texts. With a range of purposes and for audiences, they discuss ideas and responses to representations, making connections and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas. They select, vary and experiment with language features including rhetorical and literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features and features of voice.
They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and engage audiences. They analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers. They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual connections, and multimodal features, and their contribution to the aesthetic qualities of texts.
They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing ideas and representations, making connections and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas and representations. They select, vary and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 25 Content Descriptors:
Language
Language for interacting with others
AC9E10LA01 understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people AC9E10LA02 understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's valuesText structure and organisation
AC9E10LA03 analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose AC9E10LA04 understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposesLanguage for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E10LA05 analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas AC9E10LA06 analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax AC9E10LA07 evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations AC9E10LA08 use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts AC9E10LA09 understand how authors use and experiment with punctuationLiterature
Literature and contexts
AC9E10LE01 analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authorsEngaging with and responding to literature
AC9E10LE02 reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature AC9E10LE03 analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response AC9E10LE04 evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literatureExamining literature
AC9E10LE05 analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts AC9E10LE06 compare and evaluate how “voice” as a literary device is used in different types of texts, such as poetry, novels and film, to evoke emotional responses AC9E10LE07 analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of textsCreating literature
AC9E10LE08 create and edit literary texts with a sustained “voice”, selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiencesLiteracy
Texts in context
AC9E10LY01 analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contextsInteracting with others
AC9E10LY02 listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these textsAnalysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E10LY03 analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes AC9E10LY04 analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose AC9E10LY05 integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideasCreating texts
AC9E10LY06 plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical AC9E10LY07 plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or criticalWord knowledge
AC9E10LY08 use knowledge of the spelling system to spell words and to manipulate standard spelling for particular effectsAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Language for interacting with others | 2 | 7 |
| Language | Text structure and organisation | 2 | 6 |
| Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas | 5 | 11 |
| Literature | Literature and contexts | 1 | 3 |
| Literature | Engaging with and responding to literature | 3 | 5 |
| Literature | Examining literature | 3 | 5 |
| Literature | Creating literature | 1 | 4 |
| Literacy | Texts in context | 1 | 2 |
| Literacy | Interacting with others | 1 | 1 |
| Literacy | Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | 3 | 7 |
| Literacy | Creating texts | 2 | 8 |
| Literacy | Word knowledge | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 25 | 60 | |