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
ACELA1542
Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how different layers of meaning are developed through the use of metaphor, irony and parody
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1542 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1543
Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1543 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1546
Understand the effect of nominalisation in the writing of informative and persuasive texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1546 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1730
Interpret the stated and implied meanings in spoken texts, and use evidence to support or challenge different perspectives
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1730 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1736
Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1736 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1543
discussing how particular perspectives of the same event are portrayed through the combination of images and words in various media texts
Elaboration | ACELA1543 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1766
writing paragraphs of extended length that explain and substantiate a particular personal viewpoint
Elaboration | ACELA1766 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1546
analysing formal and persuasive texts to identify and explain language choices such as nominalisation
Elaboration | ACELA1546 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1627
discussing the relative merits of literary texts and comparing and evaluating personal viewpoints on texts
Elaboration | ACELT1627 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1807
analysing arguments for and against a particular issue in current community debates and justifying a personal stance
Elaboration | ACELT1807 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1629
writing or speaking about a literary text and outlining the impact of the text on a listener, viewer or reader, for example in a journal in which students reflect on their personal responses and on how language and structural features in the text contribute …
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1629 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1808
choosing vocabulary and spoken text and sentence structures for particular purposes and audiences, such as debating a topic with a team from another school, creating a voiceover for a media presentation, and adapting language choices such as use of similes, …
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1808 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELY1736
selecting vocabulary to influence meaning and to position and persuade the audience, for example adjusting language to show or acknowledge power
Elaboration (1) | ACELY1736 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum