AC9E10LA04 Year 10 English

AC9E10LA04 – Year 10 English: Text structure and organisation

Strand

Language

Substrand

Text structure and organisation

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes

Elaborations

• examining how authors vary paragraph structures for effect
• examining the integration of paragraphs and images on websites for effect
• evaluating the effect of the integration of paragraphs and images in graphic novels

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 10 ASENGY10

Year 10 English Achievement Standard

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.