Year 7 English Achievement Standard
11 statements aligned to content descriptors and elaborations
Achievement standard (as ACARA publishes it)
Achievement standard
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By the end of Year 7, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts. With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and expand ideas with evidence. They adopt text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They identify how ideas are portrayed and how texts are influenced by contexts. They identify the aesthetic qualities of texts. They identify how text structures, language features including literary devices and visual features shape meaning.
They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for different purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding on ideas with evidence. They adopt text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.
The 11 achievement standard statements
Open a statement to see the content descriptors ACARA links to it, then open a descriptor's elaborations.
By the end of Year 7, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA01 Language
understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration understanding local idioms and discussing their connection with personal and social identities
- Elaboration developing dialogue that reveals character in comics, cartoons and animations
Content descriptorAC9E7LA02 Language
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
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration building knowledge about words of evaluation, including words to express emotional responses to texts, judgement of characters and their actions, and appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of text
- Elaboration analysing how evaluative language can be used to assess the qualities of a narrative or persuasive text; for example, its impact on the reader or the author’s skill in the use of language
- Elaboration recognising how evaluative language is used to critically assess the validity of evidence and the reliability of sources
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LE02 Literature
form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration establishing forums and criteria for discussing the relative merits of characters, settings and events in literary texts
- Elaboration comparing personal opinions on texts and justifying responses in discussions which may include referencing behaviours such as integrity and loyalty
Content descriptorAC9E7LE06 Literature
identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the sound and rhythm of poetry using metalanguage; for example, “end and internal rhyme”, “meter” and “alliteration”, and discussing how layers of meaning are created
- Elaboration viewing or reading First Nations Australian films, plays and poetry, and explaining the layers of meaning created by imagery
Content descriptorAC9E7LE07 Literature
create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Elaborations (6)
- Elaboration using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text into a new situation
- Elaboration creating a prequel using an imagined series of life events of a character presented as a series of flashbacks in a scripted monologue
- Elaboration creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary
- Elaboration experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback and multiple narrators
- Elaboration experimenting with imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice when creating a literary text
- Elaboration transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations to setting for a new mode
Content descriptorAC9E7LY02 Literacy
use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
Elaborations (5)
- Elaboration participating in pair, group, class, school and/or community speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions, debates and presentations
- Elaboration using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion in a range of formal and informal contexts, including speaking clearly and coherently and for an appropriate length, clarifying and rephrasing comments of others
- Elaboration identifying key evidence supporting an argument in a discussion between 2 speakers
- Elaboration choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for purposes and audiences, adapting language choices to meet the perceived audience needs
- Elaboration ensuring that ways of communicating for particular audiences are acknowledged
Content descriptorAC9E7LY07 Literacy
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration preparing a presentation combining print, visual and audio elements to explore and interpret ideas, drawing on knowledge and research about ideas and opinions different from students’ own
- Elaboration selecting features of voice, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, for different audiences and purposes, recognising the effects these have on audience understanding and engagement
- Elaboration monitoring ideas developed at each stage of creating a presentation in a blog or journal
- Elaboration sharing feedback with a peer while planning, creating and rehearsing a presentation
With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and expand ideas with evidence.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA01 Language
understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration understanding local idioms and discussing their connection with personal and social identities
- Elaboration developing dialogue that reveals character in comics, cartoons and animations
Content descriptorAC9E7LA02 Language
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
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration building knowledge about words of evaluation, including words to express emotional responses to texts, judgement of characters and their actions, and appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of text
- Elaboration analysing how evaluative language can be used to assess the qualities of a narrative or persuasive text; for example, its impact on the reader or the author’s skill in the use of language
- Elaboration recognising how evaluative language is used to critically assess the validity of evidence and the reliability of sources
Content descriptorAC9E7LA08 Language
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration recognising vocabulary used to represent high utility, abstract academic concepts; for example, “factor”, “hypothesise”, “issue” and “critique”
- Elaboration identifying vocabulary used to write about a topic; for example, using terms for poetic devices and words to explain the effects of the devices in poems
Content descriptorAC9E7LE02 Literature
form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration establishing forums and criteria for discussing the relative merits of characters, settings and events in literary texts
- Elaboration comparing personal opinions on texts and justifying responses in discussions which may include referencing behaviours such as integrity and loyalty
Content descriptorAC9E7LE03 Literature
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
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing the representation of a character’s appearance in a novel and film version of the same text
- Elaboration explaining the impact and significance of language features in a text
Content descriptorAC9E7LE04 Literature
discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration determining criteria for evaluating the aesthetic value of a literary text and share opinions
- Elaboration comparing a film adaptation of a literary text using specific language for naming the text structure, literary devices and language features of film and novels, and sharing opinions about the aesthetic and social value of each
Content descriptorAC9E7LY02 Literacy
use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
Elaborations (5)
- Elaboration participating in pair, group, class, school and/or community speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions, debates and presentations
- Elaboration using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion in a range of formal and informal contexts, including speaking clearly and coherently and for an appropriate length, clarifying and rephrasing comments of others
- Elaboration identifying key evidence supporting an argument in a discussion between 2 speakers
- Elaboration choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for purposes and audiences, adapting language choices to meet the perceived audience needs
- Elaboration ensuring that ways of communicating for particular audiences are acknowledged
Content descriptorAC9E7LY07 Literacy
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration preparing a presentation combining print, visual and audio elements to explore and interpret ideas, drawing on knowledge and research about ideas and opinions different from students’ own
- Elaboration selecting features of voice, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, for different audiences and purposes, recognising the effects these have on audience understanding and engagement
- Elaboration monitoring ideas developed at each stage of creating a presentation in a blog or journal
- Elaboration sharing feedback with a peer while planning, creating and rehearsing a presentation
They adopt text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA03 Language
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration examining the structures of book or film reviews and how they might move from description of context to summary of the text and then to judgement of the text
- Elaboration recognising the social purpose of a persuasive text and how the purpose is reflected in the text structure and by the language features; for example, analysing the structure and language features of advertising posters
- Elaboration describing the structure and language features of literary texts, arguments, discussions, creative and analytical responses to literary texts, films or popular media, and discussing how the structure and language serves the purpose of the text
Content descriptorAC9E7LA04 Language
understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing and analysing the structure of media texts such as digital news sites or print media, identifying strategies used to create cohesion
- Elaboration identifying how authors foreshadow how a text will unfold; for example, identifying the topic sentence, sentence openers and text connectives
Content descriptorAC9E7LY07 Literacy
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration preparing a presentation combining print, visual and audio elements to explore and interpret ideas, drawing on knowledge and research about ideas and opinions different from students’ own
- Elaboration selecting features of voice, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, for different audiences and purposes, recognising the effects these have on audience understanding and engagement
- Elaboration monitoring ideas developed at each stage of creating a presentation in a blog or journal
- Elaboration sharing feedback with a peer while planning, creating and rehearsing a presentation
They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA02 Language
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
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration building knowledge about words of evaluation, including words to express emotional responses to texts, judgement of characters and their actions, and appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of text
- Elaboration analysing how evaluative language can be used to assess the qualities of a narrative or persuasive text; for example, its impact on the reader or the author’s skill in the use of language
- Elaboration recognising how evaluative language is used to critically assess the validity of evidence and the reliability of sources
Content descriptorAC9E7LA03 Language
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration examining the structures of book or film reviews and how they might move from description of context to summary of the text and then to judgement of the text
- Elaboration recognising the social purpose of a persuasive text and how the purpose is reflected in the text structure and by the language features; for example, analysing the structure and language features of advertising posters
- Elaboration describing the structure and language features of literary texts, arguments, discussions, creative and analytical responses to literary texts, films or popular media, and discussing how the structure and language serves the purpose of the text
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LA08 Language
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration recognising vocabulary used to represent high utility, abstract academic concepts; for example, “factor”, “hypothesise”, “issue” and “critique”
- Elaboration identifying vocabulary used to write about a topic; for example, using terms for poetic devices and words to explain the effects of the devices in poems
Content descriptorAC9E7LE07 Literature
create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Elaborations (6)
- Elaboration using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text into a new situation
- Elaboration creating a prequel using an imagined series of life events of a character presented as a series of flashbacks in a scripted monologue
- Elaboration creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary
- Elaboration experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback and multiple narrators
- Elaboration experimenting with imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice when creating a literary text
- Elaboration transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations to setting for a new mode
Content descriptorAC9E7LY07 Literacy
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration preparing a presentation combining print, visual and audio elements to explore and interpret ideas, drawing on knowledge and research about ideas and opinions different from students’ own
- Elaboration selecting features of voice, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, for different audiences and purposes, recognising the effects these have on audience understanding and engagement
- Elaboration monitoring ideas developed at each stage of creating a presentation in a blog or journal
- Elaboration sharing feedback with a peer while planning, creating and rehearsing a presentation
They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA01 Language
understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration understanding local idioms and discussing their connection with personal and social identities
- Elaboration developing dialogue that reveals character in comics, cartoons and animations
Content descriptorAC9E7LA03 Language
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration examining the structures of book or film reviews and how they might move from description of context to summary of the text and then to judgement of the text
- Elaboration recognising the social purpose of a persuasive text and how the purpose is reflected in the text structure and by the language features; for example, analysing the structure and language features of advertising posters
- Elaboration describing the structure and language features of literary texts, arguments, discussions, creative and analytical responses to literary texts, films or popular media, and discussing how the structure and language serves the purpose of the text
Content descriptorAC9E7LA04 Language
understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing and analysing the structure of media texts such as digital news sites or print media, identifying strategies used to create cohesion
- Elaboration identifying how authors foreshadow how a text will unfold; for example, identifying the topic sentence, sentence openers and text connectives
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LA08 Language
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration recognising vocabulary used to represent high utility, abstract academic concepts; for example, “factor”, “hypothesise”, “issue” and “critique”
- Elaboration identifying vocabulary used to write about a topic; for example, using terms for poetic devices and words to explain the effects of the devices in poems
Content descriptorAC9E7LE01 Literature
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration exploring ideas about heroism in literary texts by wide-ranging world authors
- Elaboration discussing the similarities and differences in character representations in film adaptations of novels and plays
- Elaboration exploring representations of characters and events in literary texts by First Nations Australians
- Elaboration exploring depictions of the city or the bush in Australian poems and short stories from different eras
Content descriptorAC9E7LE05 Literature
identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration analysing and explaining the structure and features of short stories, discussing the purposes and appeal of different authorial choices for structure
- Elaboration exploring traditional stories from Asia and discussing their features; for example, use of the oral mode, visual elements and verse to convey the narrative
Content descriptorAC9E7LE06 Literature
identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the sound and rhythm of poetry using metalanguage; for example, “end and internal rhyme”, “meter” and “alliteration”, and discussing how layers of meaning are created
- Elaboration viewing or reading First Nations Australian films, plays and poetry, and explaining the layers of meaning created by imagery
Content descriptorAC9E7LY01 Literacy
explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration investigating the influence of communicative technologies such as SMS, email and GIFs on written language
- Elaboration analysing the impact of interactive elements of digital texts on texts such as magazines read in a digital form
- Elaboration identifying changes in topics considered to be newsworthy as a result of technological change
Content descriptorAC9E7LY03 Literacy
analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the relationship between language features, and audience and purpose, such as identifying which group would be the most likely target audience for the information in an advertisement and justifying why
- Elaboration examining depictions of the histories and cultures of First Nations Australians, discussing language features that shape meaning
Content descriptorAC9E7LY04 Literacy
explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration identifying cause and effect in explanations and how these are used to convince an audience of a course of action
Content descriptorAC9E7LY05 Literacy
use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing the presentation of ideas in formal and informal speeches and determining the reasons for the differences
- Elaboration analysing visual features including choice of image, colour, composition and font in covers of different editions of books when predicting the tone of a text
- Elaboration determining and summarising the key idea(s) of paragraphs and chapters in an extended text
Content descriptorAC9E7LY08 Literacy
understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them
They identify how ideas are portrayed and how texts are influenced by contexts.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA05 Language
understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
- Elaboration consolidating knowledge of simple, compound and complex sentences, recognising that a simple sentence can express sophisticated ideas and a complex sentence need not express “complex” ideas
- Elaboration examining the addition of ideas using a complex-compound sentence; for example, “When dinosaurs roamed the earth, weather patterns shifted significantly and as a result vegetation depleted.”
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LA08 Language
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration recognising vocabulary used to represent high utility, abstract academic concepts; for example, “factor”, “hypothesise”, “issue” and “critique”
- Elaboration identifying vocabulary used to write about a topic; for example, using terms for poetic devices and words to explain the effects of the devices in poems
Content descriptorAC9E7LA09 Language
understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration examining the impact of information added to sentences when colons and brackets are used
Content descriptorAC9E7LE01 Literature
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration exploring ideas about heroism in literary texts by wide-ranging world authors
- Elaboration discussing the similarities and differences in character representations in film adaptations of novels and plays
- Elaboration exploring representations of characters and events in literary texts by First Nations Australians
- Elaboration exploring depictions of the city or the bush in Australian poems and short stories from different eras
Content descriptorAC9E7LE03 Literature
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
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing the representation of a character’s appearance in a novel and film version of the same text
- Elaboration explaining the impact and significance of language features in a text
Content descriptorAC9E7LE04 Literature
discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration determining criteria for evaluating the aesthetic value of a literary text and share opinions
- Elaboration comparing a film adaptation of a literary text using specific language for naming the text structure, literary devices and language features of film and novels, and sharing opinions about the aesthetic and social value of each
Content descriptorAC9E7LE05 Literature
identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration analysing and explaining the structure and features of short stories, discussing the purposes and appeal of different authorial choices for structure
- Elaboration exploring traditional stories from Asia and discussing their features; for example, use of the oral mode, visual elements and verse to convey the narrative
Content descriptorAC9E7LE06 Literature
identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the sound and rhythm of poetry using metalanguage; for example, “end and internal rhyme”, “meter” and “alliteration”, and discussing how layers of meaning are created
- Elaboration viewing or reading First Nations Australian films, plays and poetry, and explaining the layers of meaning created by imagery
Content descriptorAC9E7LY01 Literacy
explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration investigating the influence of communicative technologies such as SMS, email and GIFs on written language
- Elaboration analysing the impact of interactive elements of digital texts on texts such as magazines read in a digital form
- Elaboration identifying changes in topics considered to be newsworthy as a result of technological change
Content descriptorAC9E7LY03 Literacy
analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the relationship between language features, and audience and purpose, such as identifying which group would be the most likely target audience for the information in an advertisement and justifying why
- Elaboration examining depictions of the histories and cultures of First Nations Australians, discussing language features that shape meaning
Content descriptorAC9E7LY04 Literacy
explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration identifying cause and effect in explanations and how these are used to convince an audience of a course of action
Content descriptorAC9E7LY05 Literacy
use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing the presentation of ideas in formal and informal speeches and determining the reasons for the differences
- Elaboration analysing visual features including choice of image, colour, composition and font in covers of different editions of books when predicting the tone of a text
- Elaboration determining and summarising the key idea(s) of paragraphs and chapters in an extended text
They identify the aesthetic qualities of texts.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA03 Language
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration examining the structures of book or film reviews and how they might move from description of context to summary of the text and then to judgement of the text
- Elaboration recognising the social purpose of a persuasive text and how the purpose is reflected in the text structure and by the language features; for example, analysing the structure and language features of advertising posters
- Elaboration describing the structure and language features of literary texts, arguments, discussions, creative and analytical responses to literary texts, films or popular media, and discussing how the structure and language serves the purpose of the text
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LA08 Language
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration recognising vocabulary used to represent high utility, abstract academic concepts; for example, “factor”, “hypothesise”, “issue” and “critique”
- Elaboration identifying vocabulary used to write about a topic; for example, using terms for poetic devices and words to explain the effects of the devices in poems
Content descriptorAC9E7LE03 Literature
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
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing the representation of a character’s appearance in a novel and film version of the same text
- Elaboration explaining the impact and significance of language features in a text
Content descriptorAC9E7LE04 Literature
discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration determining criteria for evaluating the aesthetic value of a literary text and share opinions
- Elaboration comparing a film adaptation of a literary text using specific language for naming the text structure, literary devices and language features of film and novels, and sharing opinions about the aesthetic and social value of each
Content descriptorAC9E7LE06 Literature
identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the sound and rhythm of poetry using metalanguage; for example, “end and internal rhyme”, “meter” and “alliteration”, and discussing how layers of meaning are created
- Elaboration viewing or reading First Nations Australian films, plays and poetry, and explaining the layers of meaning created by imagery
They identify how text structures, language features including literary devices and visual features shape meaning.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA03 Language
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration examining the structures of book or film reviews and how they might move from description of context to summary of the text and then to judgement of the text
- Elaboration recognising the social purpose of a persuasive text and how the purpose is reflected in the text structure and by the language features; for example, analysing the structure and language features of advertising posters
- Elaboration describing the structure and language features of literary texts, arguments, discussions, creative and analytical responses to literary texts, films or popular media, and discussing how the structure and language serves the purpose of the text
Content descriptorAC9E7LA04 Language
understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing and analysing the structure of media texts such as digital news sites or print media, identifying strategies used to create cohesion
- Elaboration identifying how authors foreshadow how a text will unfold; for example, identifying the topic sentence, sentence openers and text connectives
Content descriptorAC9E7LA05 Language
understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
- Elaboration consolidating knowledge of simple, compound and complex sentences, recognising that a simple sentence can express sophisticated ideas and a complex sentence need not express “complex” ideas
- Elaboration examining the addition of ideas using a complex-compound sentence; for example, “When dinosaurs roamed the earth, weather patterns shifted significantly and as a result vegetation depleted.”
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LA08 Language
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration recognising vocabulary used to represent high utility, abstract academic concepts; for example, “factor”, “hypothesise”, “issue” and “critique”
- Elaboration identifying vocabulary used to write about a topic; for example, using terms for poetic devices and words to explain the effects of the devices in poems
Content descriptorAC9E7LA09 Language
understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration examining the impact of information added to sentences when colons and brackets are used
Content descriptorAC9E7LE03 Literature
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
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing the representation of a character’s appearance in a novel and film version of the same text
- Elaboration explaining the impact and significance of language features in a text
Content descriptorAC9E7LE04 Literature
discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration determining criteria for evaluating the aesthetic value of a literary text and share opinions
- Elaboration comparing a film adaptation of a literary text using specific language for naming the text structure, literary devices and language features of film and novels, and sharing opinions about the aesthetic and social value of each
Content descriptorAC9E7LE05 Literature
identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration analysing and explaining the structure and features of short stories, discussing the purposes and appeal of different authorial choices for structure
- Elaboration exploring traditional stories from Asia and discussing their features; for example, use of the oral mode, visual elements and verse to convey the narrative
Content descriptorAC9E7LE06 Literature
identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the sound and rhythm of poetry using metalanguage; for example, “end and internal rhyme”, “meter” and “alliteration”, and discussing how layers of meaning are created
- Elaboration viewing or reading First Nations Australian films, plays and poetry, and explaining the layers of meaning created by imagery
Content descriptorAC9E7LY03 Literacy
analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the relationship between language features, and audience and purpose, such as identifying which group would be the most likely target audience for the information in an advertisement and justifying why
- Elaboration examining depictions of the histories and cultures of First Nations Australians, discussing language features that shape meaning
Content descriptorAC9E7LY04 Literacy
explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration identifying cause and effect in explanations and how these are used to convince an audience of a course of action
They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for different purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding on ideas with evidence.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA02 Language
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
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration building knowledge about words of evaluation, including words to express emotional responses to texts, judgement of characters and their actions, and appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of text
- Elaboration analysing how evaluative language can be used to assess the qualities of a narrative or persuasive text; for example, its impact on the reader or the author’s skill in the use of language
- Elaboration recognising how evaluative language is used to critically assess the validity of evidence and the reliability of sources
Content descriptorAC9E7LA05 Language
understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
- Elaboration consolidating knowledge of simple, compound and complex sentences, recognising that a simple sentence can express sophisticated ideas and a complex sentence need not express “complex” ideas
- Elaboration examining the addition of ideas using a complex-compound sentence; for example, “When dinosaurs roamed the earth, weather patterns shifted significantly and as a result vegetation depleted.”
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LA09 Language
understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration examining the impact of information added to sentences when colons and brackets are used
Content descriptorAC9E7LE02 Literature
form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration establishing forums and criteria for discussing the relative merits of characters, settings and events in literary texts
- Elaboration comparing personal opinions on texts and justifying responses in discussions which may include referencing behaviours such as integrity and loyalty
Content descriptorAC9E7LE03 Literature
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
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing the representation of a character’s appearance in a novel and film version of the same text
- Elaboration explaining the impact and significance of language features in a text
Content descriptorAC9E7LE04 Literature
discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration determining criteria for evaluating the aesthetic value of a literary text and share opinions
- Elaboration comparing a film adaptation of a literary text using specific language for naming the text structure, literary devices and language features of film and novels, and sharing opinions about the aesthetic and social value of each
Content descriptorAC9E7LE05 Literature
identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration analysing and explaining the structure and features of short stories, discussing the purposes and appeal of different authorial choices for structure
- Elaboration exploring traditional stories from Asia and discussing their features; for example, use of the oral mode, visual elements and verse to convey the narrative
Content descriptorAC9E7LE06 Literature
identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the sound and rhythm of poetry using metalanguage; for example, “end and internal rhyme”, “meter” and “alliteration”, and discussing how layers of meaning are created
- Elaboration viewing or reading First Nations Australian films, plays and poetry, and explaining the layers of meaning created by imagery
Content descriptorAC9E7LE07 Literature
create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Elaborations (6)
- Elaboration using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text into a new situation
- Elaboration creating a prequel using an imagined series of life events of a character presented as a series of flashbacks in a scripted monologue
- Elaboration creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary
- Elaboration experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback and multiple narrators
- Elaboration experimenting with imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice when creating a literary text
- Elaboration transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations to setting for a new mode
Content descriptorAC9E7LY01 Literacy
explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration investigating the influence of communicative technologies such as SMS, email and GIFs on written language
- Elaboration analysing the impact of interactive elements of digital texts on texts such as magazines read in a digital form
- Elaboration identifying changes in topics considered to be newsworthy as a result of technological change
Content descriptorAC9E7LY03 Literacy
analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration explaining the relationship between language features, and audience and purpose, such as identifying which group would be the most likely target audience for the information in an advertisement and justifying why
- Elaboration examining depictions of the histories and cultures of First Nations Australians, discussing language features that shape meaning
Content descriptorAC9E7LY04 Literacy
explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration identifying cause and effect in explanations and how these are used to convince an audience of a course of action
Content descriptorAC9E7LY06 Literacy
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration compiling a portfolio of texts in a range of modes related to a particular concept, purpose or audience; for example, a class anthology of poems or stories
- Elaboration using appropriate text conventions to create scripts for interviews, presentations, advertisements, radio segments, podcasts, digital and online reflections including vlogs
- Elaboration editing for meaning by removing unnecessary repetition, reordering sentences and varying sentence structures to refine ideas, adding or substituting words for impact, and reviewing accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Elaboration tracking a word-processed document to jointly edit texts
Content descriptorAC9E7LY08 Literacy
understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them
They adopt text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA03 Language
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration examining the structures of book or film reviews and how they might move from description of context to summary of the text and then to judgement of the text
- Elaboration recognising the social purpose of a persuasive text and how the purpose is reflected in the text structure and by the language features; for example, analysing the structure and language features of advertising posters
- Elaboration describing the structure and language features of literary texts, arguments, discussions, creative and analytical responses to literary texts, films or popular media, and discussing how the structure and language serves the purpose of the text
Content descriptorAC9E7LA04 Language
understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration comparing and analysing the structure of media texts such as digital news sites or print media, identifying strategies used to create cohesion
- Elaboration identifying how authors foreshadow how a text will unfold; for example, identifying the topic sentence, sentence openers and text connectives
Content descriptorAC9E7LE07 Literature
create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Elaborations (6)
- Elaboration using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text into a new situation
- Elaboration creating a prequel using an imagined series of life events of a character presented as a series of flashbacks in a scripted monologue
- Elaboration creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary
- Elaboration experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback and multiple narrators
- Elaboration experimenting with imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice when creating a literary text
- Elaboration transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations to setting for a new mode
Content descriptorAC9E7LY06 Literacy
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration compiling a portfolio of texts in a range of modes related to a particular concept, purpose or audience; for example, a class anthology of poems or stories
- Elaboration using appropriate text conventions to create scripts for interviews, presentations, advertisements, radio segments, podcasts, digital and online reflections including vlogs
- Elaboration editing for meaning by removing unnecessary repetition, reordering sentences and varying sentence structures to refine ideas, adding or substituting words for impact, and reviewing accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Elaboration tracking a word-processed document to jointly edit texts
They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.
Content descriptorAC9E7LA03 Language
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration examining the structures of book or film reviews and how they might move from description of context to summary of the text and then to judgement of the text
- Elaboration recognising the social purpose of a persuasive text and how the purpose is reflected in the text structure and by the language features; for example, analysing the structure and language features of advertising posters
- Elaboration describing the structure and language features of literary texts, arguments, discussions, creative and analytical responses to literary texts, films or popular media, and discussing how the structure and language serves the purpose of the text
Content descriptorAC9E7LA05 Language
understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
- Elaboration consolidating knowledge of simple, compound and complex sentences, recognising that a simple sentence can express sophisticated ideas and a complex sentence need not express “complex” ideas
- Elaboration examining the addition of ideas using a complex-compound sentence; for example, “When dinosaurs roamed the earth, weather patterns shifted significantly and as a result vegetation depleted.”
Content descriptorAC9E7LA06 Language
understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration identifying and discussing how verb tense is maintained in compound, complex and compound-complex sentences
- Elaboration identifying and discussing different forms of verb tenses and their use to maintain consistency of tense in different sentences; for example, “I organise the cake stall every week, and I am running the meeting this weekend, as well.”
Content descriptorAC9E7LA07 Language
analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
Elaborations (3)
- Elaboration comparing how perspectives are created in animations and advertisements
- Elaboration comparing how different advertisements advertise the same product, using techniques to create different perspectives for effect
- Elaboration analysing how the illustrations in picture books, graphic novels and advertisements use size, colour, angle, proximity, vector and salience to influence the reader
Content descriptorAC9E7LA08 Language
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Elaborations (2)
- Elaboration recognising vocabulary used to represent high utility, abstract academic concepts; for example, “factor”, “hypothesise”, “issue” and “critique”
- Elaboration identifying vocabulary used to write about a topic; for example, using terms for poetic devices and words to explain the effects of the devices in poems
Content descriptorAC9E7LA09 Language
understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
Elaborations (1)
- Elaboration examining the impact of information added to sentences when colons and brackets are used
Content descriptorAC9E7LE07 Literature
create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Elaborations (6)
- Elaboration using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text into a new situation
- Elaboration creating a prequel using an imagined series of life events of a character presented as a series of flashbacks in a scripted monologue
- Elaboration creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary
- Elaboration experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback and multiple narrators
- Elaboration experimenting with imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice when creating a literary text
- Elaboration transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations to setting for a new mode
Content descriptorAC9E7LY06 Literacy
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
Elaborations (4)
- Elaboration compiling a portfolio of texts in a range of modes related to a particular concept, purpose or audience; for example, a class anthology of poems or stories
- Elaboration using appropriate text conventions to create scripts for interviews, presentations, advertisements, radio segments, podcasts, digital and online reflections including vlogs
- Elaboration editing for meaning by removing unnecessary repetition, reordering sentences and varying sentence structures to refine ideas, adding or substituting words for impact, and reviewing accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Elaboration tracking a word-processed document to jointly edit texts
This achievement standard describes the expected learning for Year 7 English. Use it to plan teaching and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
At a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Language for interacting with others | 2 | 5 |
| Language | Text structure and organisation | 2 | 5 |
| Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas | 5 | 11 |
| Literature | Literature and contexts | 1 | 4 |
| Literature | Engaging with and responding to literature | 3 | 6 |
| Literature | Examining literature | 2 | 4 |
| Literature | Creating literature | 1 | 6 |
| Literacy | Texts in context | 1 | 3 |
| Literacy | Interacting with others | 1 | 5 |
| Literacy | Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | 3 | 6 |
| Literacy | Creating texts | 2 | 8 |
| Literacy | Word knowledge | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 24 | 63 | |