ACELY1754
Use comprehension strategies to compare and contrast information within and between texts, identifying and analysing embedded perspectives, and evaluating supporting evidence
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ACELY1754 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
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
ACELA1566
Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media
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ACELA1566 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1639
Compare and evaluate a range of representations of individuals and groups in different historical, social and cultural contexts
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ACELT1639 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1643
Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’ as a literary device can be used in a range of different types of texts such as poetry to evoke particular emotional responses
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ACELT1643 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1564
Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
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ACELA1564 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1573
Understand how to use knowledge of the spelling system to spell unusual and technical words accurately, for example those based on uncommon Greek and Latin roots
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ACELA1573 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1750
Identify and explore the purposes and effects of different text structures and language features of spoken texts, and use this knowledge to create purposeful texts that inform, persuade and engage
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ACELY1750 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1776
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to create, edit and publish texts, considering the identified purpose and the characteristics of the user
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ACELY1776 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1813
Use organisation patterns, voice and language conventions to present a point of view on a subject, speaking clearly, coherently and with effect, using logic, imagery and rhetorical devices to engage audiences
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ACELY1813 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1569
recognising how the focus of a sentence can be changed through the use of the passive voice (for example compare active, ‘The police had caught the thief.’ with passive ‘The thief had been caught.’)
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1569 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1752
skim reading sections of a persuasive text to identify the main contention, key arguments in linked paragraphs and supporting evidence in order to locate points for building rebuttal or counter argument
Elaboration | ACELY1752 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1568
understanding who to cite in essays, reviews and academic assignments and when it is appropriate to use direct quotations or to report sources more generally
Elaboration | ACELA1568 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1566
reproducing and adapting existing print texts for an online environment and explaining the reasons for the adaptations (for example accounting for the navigation and use of hyperlinks as structuring principles in hypertext narratives)
Elaboration | ACELA1566 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
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) | ACELA1569 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1564
identifying the use of first person ‘I’, ‘we’ and second person pronouns ‘you’ to distance or involve the audience, for example in a speech made to a local cultural community
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1564 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1641
looking at a range of texts to consider how the use of a structural device, for example a female narrator, may influence female readers/viewers/listeners to respond sympathetically to an event or issue
Elaboration | ACELT1641 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum