Year 9
English
ASENGY9
Year 9 English Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 9 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 9, 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 and expand on ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas. They select and experiment with language features including 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/or engage audiences. They analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts. They analyse the aesthetic qualities of texts. They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features.
They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 23 Content Descriptors:
Language
Language for interacting with others
AC9E9LA01 recognise how language empowers relationships and roles AC9E9LA02 understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphorText structure and organisation
AC9E9LA03 examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination AC9E9LA04 investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectivesLanguage for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E9LA05 identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment AC9E9LA06 understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text AC9E9LA07 analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning AC9E9LA08 analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone AC9E9LA09 understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposesLiterature
Literature and contexts
AC9E9LE01 analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authorsEngaging with and responding to literature
AC9E9LE02 present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text AC9E9LE03 analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for textsExamining literature
AC9E9LE04 analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of an author’s literary style AC9E9LE05 analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual referencesCreating literature
AC9E9LE06 create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features and literary devices for purposes and audiencesLiteracy
Texts in context
AC9E9LY01 analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contextsInteracting with others
AC9E9LY02 listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these textsAnalysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E9LY03 analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group AC9E9LY04 analyse the organisation of ideas in paragraphs and extended texts, and evaluate its impact on meaning AC9E9LY05 use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to compare and contrast ideas and opinions in and between textsCreating texts
AC9E9LY06 plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical AC9E9LY07 plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or criticalWord knowledge
AC9E9LY08 understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speechAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Language for interacting with others | 2 | 3 |
| Language | Text structure and organisation | 2 | 3 |
| Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas | 5 | 7 |
| Literature | Literature and contexts | 1 | 3 |
| Literature | Engaging with and responding to literature | 2 | 2 |
| Literature | Examining literature | 2 | 3 |
| Literature | Creating literature | 1 | 3 |
| Literacy | Texts in context | 1 | 3 |
| Literacy | Interacting with others | 1 | 2 |
| Literacy | Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | 3 | 8 |
| Literacy | Creating texts | 2 | 8 |
| Literacy | Word knowledge | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 23 | 47 | |
Frequently Asked Questions
What should students know by the end of Year 9 English?
By the end of Year 9, 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 and expand on ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas. They select and experiment with language features including 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/or engage audiences. They analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts. They analyse the aesthetic qualities of texts. They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features.
They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.
How many Content Descriptors support this standard?
23 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Language: 2, Language: 2, Language: 5, Literature: 1, Literature: 2, Literature: 2, Literature: 1, Literacy: 1, Literacy: 1, Literacy: 3, Literacy: 2, Literacy: 1).
How does this compare to Year 8?
The Year 8 English standard (ASENGY8) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 9 expectations extending what was introduced in Year 8.
Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?
Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.