AC9E7LY02 Year 7 English

AC9E7LY02 – Year 7 English: Interacting with others

Strand

Literacy

Substrand

Interacting with others

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

use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts

Elaborations

• participating in pair, group, class, school and/or community speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions, debates and presentations
• using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion in a range of formal and informal contexts, including speaking clearly and coherently and for an appropriate length, clarifying and rephrasing comments of others
• identifying key evidence supporting an argument in a discussion between 2 speakers
• choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for purposes and audiences, adapting language choices to meet the perceived audience needs
• ensuring that ways of communicating for particular audiences are acknowledged

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.