AC9E8LA03
Year 8
English
AC9E8LA03 | Year 8 English: Text structure and organisation
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor explain how texts are structured depending on their purpose and how language features vary, recognising that some texts are hybrids that combine different genres or elements of different genres
Strand
Language
Substrand
Text structure and organisation
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration recognising how texts such as critical responses to texts, expositions, text interpretations and discussions are typically structured to achieve their purpose
- • Elaboration discussing how the placement of images and written text in a linear or non-linear way, such as online texts, is used differently in a variety of texts for a purpose
- • Elaboration explaining the structure and language features of texts such as narratives, literary recounts, memoirs, drama scripts, types of poems, formal speeches, comparisons and creative responses, discussions and debates, and explaining how these structures and language features support their purpose
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.See it on the standard page →
- They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.See it on the standard page →
- They explain the aesthetic qualities of texts.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how text structures shape meaning.See it on the standard page →
- They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features.See it on the standard page →
- They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →