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AC9E7LE06: Year 7 English Content Descriptor – Examining literature
AC9E7LE06 Year 7 English

AC9E7LE06 – 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 how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry

Elaborations

  • • explaining the sound and rhythm of poetry using metalanguage; for example, “end and internal rhyme”, “meter” and “alliteration”, and discussing how layers of meaning are created
  • • viewing or reading First Nations Australian films, plays and poetry, and explaining the layers of meaning created by imagery

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.