AC9E7LA08
Official content description
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
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What Year 7 English students should achieve
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- They adopt text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
- They identify the aesthetic qualities of texts.
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for different purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding on ideas with evidence.
- With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and expand ideas with evidence.
- They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
- They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.
The Language progression either side of AC9E7LA08
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Taught before · Year 6
- AC9E6LA01understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
- AC9E6LA02understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
- AC9E6LA03explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
Builds towards · Year 8
- AC9E8LA01recognise how language shapes relationships and roles
- AC9E8LA02understand how layers of meaning can be created when evaluating by using literary devices such as simile and metaphor
- AC9E8LA03explain how texts are structured depending on their purpose and how language features vary, recognising that some texts are hybrids that combine different genres or elements of different genres
Other Year 7 Language codes
- AC9E7LA01understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
- AC9E7LA02recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
- AC9E7LA03identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
- AC9E7LA04understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
- AC9E7LA05understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
- AC9E7LA06understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
- AC9E7LA07analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
- AC9E7LA09understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
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