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AC9E7LE05: Year 7 English Content Descriptor – Examining literature
AC9E7LE05 Year 7 English

AC9E7LE05 – Year 7 English: Examining literature

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Examining literature

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

identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives

Elaborations

  • • analysing and explaining the structure and features of short stories, discussing the purposes and appeal of different authorial choices for structure
  • • exploring traditional stories from Asia and discussing their features; for example, use of the oral mode, visual elements and verse to convey the narrative

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.