AC9E8LY07
Year 8
English
AC9E8LY07 | Year 8 English: Creating texts
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for audiences and purposes, selecting language features, literary devices, visual features and features of voice to suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in texts 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 integrating multimodal features in a spoken presentation to support the audience’s understanding
- • Elaboration choosing vocabulary and sentence structures, and using literary devices such as similes, metaphors and personification to meet perceived audience needs; for example, when debating a topic or creating a voiceover for a media presentation
- • Elaboration selecting features of voice, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, with particular attention to the effects these may have on audience reaction and acceptance of the ideas presented
- • Elaboration collaborating with peers to develop a persuasive advertising campaign about a contemporary issue
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 8, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.See it on the standard page →
- With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and elaborate on 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 and features of voice.See it on the standard page →