AC9E8LY02 Year 8 English

AC9E8LY02 – Year 8 English: Interacting with others

Strand

Literacy

Substrand

Interacting with others

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

use interaction skills for identified purposes and situations, including when supporting or challenging the stated or implied meanings of spoken texts in presentations or discussion

Elaborations

• participating in pair, group, class, school and community speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions, debates and presentations
• listening to a conversation or speech, identifying the point being made, and explaining the tone and manner of presentation
• using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion in range of formal and informal contexts, including speaking clearly and coherently and at appropriate length, asking questions about stated and implied ideas, and restating and summarising main ideas

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.