AC9E8LY03
Official content description
analyse 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
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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 Literacy progression either side of AC9E8LY03
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Taught before · Year 7
- 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
Builds towards · Year 9
- AC9E9LY01analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts
- AC9E9LY02listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these texts
- AC9E9LY03analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group
Other Year 8 Literacy codes
- 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
- AC9E8LY04analyse how authors organise ideas to develop and shape meaning
- AC9E8LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in texts
- AC9E8LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
- AC9E8LY07plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for audiences and purposes, selecting language features, literary devices, visual features and features of voice to suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in texts in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
- AC9E8LY08apply learnt knowledge to spell accurately and to learn new words
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