Year 10 English — AC v9
All 25 content descriptions for Year 10 English in the Australian Curriculum Version 9, grouped by strand — each one links to its own page, and TeachKoala can turn any of them into a complete lesson (your first is free).
Achievement standard (what coverage means)
- •They select, vary and experiment with language features including rhetorical and 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 engage audiences.
- •They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas and representations.
- •They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing ideas and representations, making connections and providing substantiation.
- •They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas.
- •They select, vary and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.
- •With a range of purposes and for audiences, they discuss ideas and responses to representations, making connections and providing substantiation.
- •They analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers.
- •They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual connections, and multimodal features, and their contribution to the aesthetic qualities of texts.
- •By the end of Year 10, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts including literary texts.
- 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
- AC9E10LA04understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes
- AC9E10LA05analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas
- AC9E10LA06analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax
- AC9E10LA07evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations
- AC9E10LA08use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts
- AC9E10LA09understand how authors use and experiment with punctuation
- AC9E10LE01analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
- AC9E10LE02reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature
- AC9E10LE03analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response
- AC9E10LE04evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature
- AC9E10LE05analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts
- AC9E10LE06compare and evaluate how “voice” as a literary device is used in different types of texts, such as poetry, novels and film, to evoke emotional responses
- AC9E10LE07analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts
- AC9E10LE08create and edit literary texts with a sustained “voice”, selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences
- AC9E10LY01analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts
- AC9E10LY02listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts
- AC9E10LY03analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes
- AC9E10LY04analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose
- AC9E10LY05integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas
- AC9E10LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical
- AC9E10LY07plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical
- AC9E10LY08use knowledge of the spelling system to spell words and to manipulate standard spelling for particular effects
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The Year 10 English planning scaffold
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