AC9E9LY08
Year 9
English
AC9E9LY08 – Year 9 English: Word knowledge
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 Description
understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech
Elaborations
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1
exploring the spelling of neologisms and their effect in media texts such as online posts; for example, “selfie” and “Paralympics”
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2
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
Related Achievement Standards