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Year 10 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 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 10

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 10, students evaluate how text structures can be used in innovative ways by different authors. They explain how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary contributes to …

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

Elaboration (2) ACELA1563

understanding how and why spelling became standardised and how conventions have changed over time and continue to change through common usage, the invention of new words and creative combinations of existing words

Elaboration (2) ACELA1564

identifying references to shared assumptions

Elaboration (2) ACELA1569

observing how authors sometimes use verbless clauses for effect (for example, ‘And what about the other woman? With her long black eyelashes and red lipstick’)

Elaboration (2) ACELA1570

noting how technicality allows for efficient reference to shared knowledge, indicating growing expertise in the field (for example, ‘The Romantic poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes.’)

Elaboration (2) ACELT1639

exploring and reflecting on personal understanding of the world and human experience gained from interpreting literature drawn from cultures and times different from the students’ own

Elaboration (2) ACELT1640

creating personal reading lists in a variety of genres and explain why the texts qualify for inclusion on a particular list

Elaboration (2) ACELY1749

identifying and explaining satirical events, including events in other cultures, for example depictions in political cartoons

Elaboration (2) ACELY1750

applying knowledge of spoken, visual, auditory, technical and multimodal resources (for example sound and silence, camera shot types, lighting and colour) in conjunction with verbal resources for varying purposes and contexts

Elaboration (2) ACELY1813

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 devices such as evaluative …

Elaboration (2) ACELY1756

exploring models of sustained texts created for persuasive purposes about a challenging or complex issue from other cultures, including Asia

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