AC9E8LA06
Official content description
understand the effect of nominalisation in texts
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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 AC9E8LA06
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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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