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AC9E8LY03: Year 8 English Content Descriptor – Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E8LY03 Year 8 English

AC9E8LY03 – Year 8 English: Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

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

analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text

Elaborations

  • • evaluating an author's use of language features to present an opinion about those features
  • • evaluating the use of sources and quotations and presenting an opinion about how an author has supported an idea

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.