AC9E8LY06 Year 8 English

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.

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical

Elaborations

• 1 experimenting with and editing text structures and language features; for example, paragraph order and content, and language choices to refine and clarify ideas
• 2 selecting vocabulary to position and persuade the reader; for example, adjusting language to show or acknowledge power
• 3 editing for accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation, and for meaning by experimenting with different order of ideas, a range of sentence structures, literary devices and vocabulary to clarify meaning for academic texts where appropriate
• 4 using conceptual maps or journals to plan and reflect on each stage of creating a written or multimodal text

Related Achievement Standards