AC9E8LA03
Official content description
explain 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
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What Year 8 English students should achieve
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- They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
- They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.
- They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features.
- They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence.
- They explain the aesthetic qualities of texts.
The Language progression either side of AC9E8LA03
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Taught before · Year 7
- 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
Builds towards · Year 9
- AC9E9LA01recognise how language empowers relationships and roles
- AC9E9LA02understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor
- AC9E9LA03examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination
Other Year 8 Language codes
- 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
- AC9E8LA04understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims
- AC9E8LA05examine a variety of clause structures including embedded clauses that add information and expand ideas in sentences
- AC9E8LA06understand the effect of nominalisation in texts
- AC9E8LA07investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance and layer meaning
- AC9E8LA08identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts
- AC9E8LA09understand and use punctuation conventions including semicolons and dashes to extend ideas and support meaning
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