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AC9E7LA06: Year 7 English Content Descriptor – Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E7LA06 Year 7 English

AC9E7LA06 – Year 7 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

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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 consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences

Elaborations

  • identifying and discussing how verb tense is maintained in compound, complex and compound-complex sentences
  • identifying and discussing different forms of verb tenses and their use to maintain consistency of tense in different sentences; for example, “I organise the cake stall every week, and I am running the meeting this weekend, as well.”

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.