Year 8 English — AC v9
All 23 content descriptions for Year 8 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 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.
- •By the end of Year 8, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.
- •They explain how ideas are represented and how texts reflect or challenge contexts.
- •They explain how text structures shape meaning.
- •With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and elaborate on ideas with supporting evidence.
- •They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
- •They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.
- 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
- 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
- AC9E8LE01explain the ways that ideas and points of view may represent the values of individuals and groups in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
- AC9E8LE02share opinions about the language features, literary devices and text structures that contribute to the styles of literary texts
- AC9E8LE03explain how language and/or images in texts position readers to respond and form viewpoints
- AC9E8LE04identify intertextual references in literary texts and explain how the references enable new understanding of the aesthetic quality of the text
- AC9E8LE05analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect
- AC9E8LE06create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects
- 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
- AC9E8LY03analyse 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
- 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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The Year 8 English planning scaffold
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