AC9E10LY06 Year 10 English

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 presenting a structured argument by providing a statement of the major arguments or concerns relating to an issue, previewing the structure of arguments, structuring the text to provide a major point for each paragraph with succinct elaboration, and concluding with a summary of the main issues or recommendations in an argument
• 2 creating written and multimodal texts that compel readers to empathise with the ideas and emotions expressed or implied
• 3 designing a webpage that combines navigation, text, sound, and moving and still images for a specific audience
• 4 reviewing, editing and refining their own and others’ texts for accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation, and to achieve particular purposes and address specific audiences through control and organisation of content, sentence structures, vocabulary choices and visual features
• 5 reflecting on the effect of choices made in a written or multimodal text and how these choices may be changed or developed in future texts

Related Achievement Standards