Year 8 English
The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …
Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1629
Recognise, explain and analyse the ways literary texts draw on readers’ knowledge of other texts and enable new understanding and appreciation of aesthetic qualities
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1629 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 8
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 8, students understand how the selection of text structures is influenced by the selection of language mode and how this varies for different purposes and audiences. Students explain …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1549
understanding the different ways complex words are constructed and, when spelling these words, drawing on morphemic knowledge and knowledge of unusual letter combinations
Elaboration | ACELA1549 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1541
understanding that our use of language helps to create different identities, for example teenage groups and sportspeople have adopted particular words or ways of speaking
Elaboration | ACELA1541 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1632
creating literary interpretations of short stories based on understanding and analysis of their context, narrative structure (including the twist at the end), layers of meaning, themes, point of view and style
Elaboration | ACELT1632 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1630
understanding that tone (serious, bitter, sincere, amused) indicates attitude to the subject and to readers/listeners, who can identify or judge tone through past experience and language clues in the text
Elaboration | ACELT1630 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum