AC9E8LA04 Year 8 English

AC9E8LA04 – Year 8 English: Text structure and organisation

Strand

Language

Substrand

Text structure and organisation

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.

Content Descriptor

understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims

Elaborations

• writing paragraphs of extended length that explain, substantiate and exemplify a particular viewpoint

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 8 ASENGY8

Year 8 English Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, 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 elaborate on ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They explain how ideas are represented and how texts reflect or challenge contexts. They explain the aesthetic qualities of texts. They explain how text structures shape meaning. They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features. They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.