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AC9E9LY08: Year 9 English Content Descriptor – Word knowledge
AC9E9LY08 Year 9 English

AC9E9LY08 – Year 9 English: Word knowledge

Strand
Literacy
Substrand
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 Descriptor

understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech

Elaborations

  • • exploring the spelling of neologisms and their effect in media texts such as online posts; for example, “selfie” and “Paralympics”
  • • 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

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.