AC9E7LA05 Year 7 English

AC9E7LA05 – Year 7 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

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Language

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Language for expressing and developing ideas

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

Elaborations

• identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
• 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
• 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.”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASENGY7

Year 7 English Achievement Standard

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.