AC9E7LA05
Year 7
English
AC9E7LA05 | Year 7 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • 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.”
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They identify how ideas are portrayed and how texts are influenced by contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They identify how text structures, language features including literary devices and visual features shape meaning.See it on the standard page →
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for different purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding on ideas with evidence.See it on the standard page →
- They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →