AC9E9LA04
Official content description
investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives
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What Year 9 English students should achieve
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- By the end of Year 9, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts including literary texts.
- They select and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features and features of voice.
- They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.
- They analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts.
- They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
- They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas.
The Language progression either side of AC9E9LA04
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Taught before · 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
Builds towards · Year 10
- AC9E10LA01understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
- AC9E10LA02understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values
- AC9E10LA03analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose
Other Year 9 Language codes
- 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
- AC9E9LA05identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment
- AC9E9LA06understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text
- AC9E9LA07analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning
- AC9E9LA08analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone
- AC9E9LA09understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes
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