AC9E8LE06
Year 8
English
AC9E8LE06 | Year 8 English: Creating literature
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects
Strand
Literature
Substrand
Creating literature
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration creating short stories focusing on characters and dialogue
- • Elaboration combining literary devices to evoke a reader response
- • Elaboration collaborating with a peer, which may include using online spaces, to write a short script with 2 characters, focusing on dialogue choices for each character
- • Elaboration editing the imagery and word choices when creating a literary text and reflecting on the effect of those changes
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 8, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.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 create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence.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 →