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AC9E8LE02: Year 8 English Content Descriptor – Engaging with and responding to literature
AC9E8LE02 Year 8 English

AC9E8LE02 – Year 8 English: Engaging with and responding to literature

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Engaging with and responding to literature

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

share opinions about the language features, literary devices and text structures that contribute to the styles of literary texts

Elaborations

  • • comparing reviews of a literary text and evaluating opinions that challenge or support personal opinions
  • • reflecting on and evaluating opinions and arguments about aspects of literary texts including characterisation, setting and plot

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.