AC9E8LY06
Year 8
English
AC9E8LY06 | Year 8 English: Creating texts
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor 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
Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Creating texts
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration experimenting with and editing text structures and language features; for example, paragraph order and content, and language choices to refine and clarify ideas
- • Elaboration selecting vocabulary to position and persuade the reader; for example, adjusting language to show or acknowledge power
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration using conceptual maps or journals to plan and reflect on each stage of creating a written or multimodal text
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence.See it on the standard page →
- They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →