AC9E9LY08
Year 9
English
AC9E9LY08 | Year 9 English: Word knowledge
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech
Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Word knowledge
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration exploring the spelling of neologisms and their effect in media texts such as online posts; for example, “selfie” and “Paralympics”
- • Elaboration analysing how spelling is used to represent the distinctive speech of a character by noting where authors have dropped letters from words to emulate the sound of spoken words
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.See it on the standard page →
- They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features.See it on the standard page →
- 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.See it on the standard page →