AC9E7LY07
Official content description
plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace
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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 Literacy progression either side of AC9E7LY07
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Taught before · Year 6
- AC9E6LY01examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
- AC9E6LY02use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
- AC9E6LY03analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences
Builds towards · Year 8
- AC9E8LY01identify how texts reflect contexts
- AC9E8LY02use interaction skills for identified purposes and situations, including when supporting or challenging the stated or implied meanings of spoken texts in presentations or discussion
- AC9E8LY03analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text
Other Year 7 Literacy codes
- AC9E7LY01explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
- AC9E7LY02use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
- AC9E7LY03analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
- AC9E7LY04explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
- AC9E7LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
- AC9E7LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
- AC9E7LY08understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them
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