Year 7 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 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 7

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 7, students understand how text structures can influence the complexity of a text and are dependent on audience, purpose and context. They demonstrate understanding of how the choice …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1529

Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1529 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1531

Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1531 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1725

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELY1725 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1727

Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and supports writing for extended periods

ScOT Terms

ACELY1727 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1529

building a database of local idioms and their meanings, accents and styles of speech for different contexts, exploring the possibilities of these choices in drama and role play, and discussing their connection with personal and social identities

Elaboration | ACELA1529 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1764

comparing choices for point of view in animations, advertisements and other persuasive texts

Elaboration | ACELA1764 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1764

experimenting with digital storytelling conventions to create personal reflections on shared experiences

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1764 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELT1619

identifying and explaining differences between points of view in texts, for example contrasting the city and the bush or different perspectives based on culture, gender or age

Elaboration (1) | ACELT1619 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1620

comparing personal viewpoints on texts and justifying responses in actual and virtual discussions

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1620 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1805

experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback, multiple perspectives

Elaboration | ACELT1805 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1720

preparing a presentation combining print, visual and audio elements to explore and interpret ideas, drawing on knowledge and research about perspectives different from students’ own

Elaboration | ACELY1720 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum