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AC9E9LY07: Year 9 English Content Descriptor – Creating texts
AC9E9LY07 Year 9 English

AC9E9LY07 – Year 9 English: Creating texts

Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Creating texts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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

plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

Elaborations

  • • using graphics and text animations to accompany spoken text; for example, presenting a news item suitable for a current affairs program that uses images with spoken text to influence a viewer’s response
  • • selecting features of voice such as tone, volume, pitch and pace for their specific effects to create tone or to persuade an audience
  • • choosing text structures and adapting literary devices such as similes, metaphors and personification to meet the perceived needs of an audience when debating a topic, creating a voiceover for a media presentation or presenting a seminar
  • • collaborating with peers to develop imaginative recreations of part of a text or to represent a key idea in a text

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASENGY9
Year 9 English Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 9, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts including literary texts. With a range of purposes and for audiences, they discuss and expand on ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas. They select and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts. They analyse the aesthetic qualities of texts. They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features. They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.