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AC9E8LY05: Year 8 English Content Descriptor – Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E8LY05 Year 8 English

AC9E8LY05 – 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

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in texts

Elaborations

  • • reflecting on content by connecting and comparing information across and between texts
  • • determining and applying criteria for evaluating the content of a website; for example, criteria for content and website purpose and its effectiveness
  • • analysing the selection and composition of an image in a text and evaluating its effect on the credibility of the story

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.