AC9E8LA03 Year 8 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 recognising how texts such as critical responses to texts, expositions, text interpretations and discussions are typically structured to achieve their purpose
• 2 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
• 3 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

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