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AC9E8LE06: Year 8 English Content Descriptor – Creating literature
AC9E8LE06 Year 8 English

AC9E8LE06 – Year 8 English: Creating literature

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Creating 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

create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects

Elaborations

  • • creating short stories focusing on characters and dialogue
  • • combining literary devices to evoke a reader response
  • • 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
  • • editing the imagery and word choices when creating a literary text and reflecting on the effect of those changes

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.