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
ACELA1528
Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts and communicating
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ACELA1528 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1782
Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
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ACELA1782 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1621
Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts
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ACELT1621 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1721
Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
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ACELY1721 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1724
Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences
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ACELY1724 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1537
Investigate vocabulary typical of extended and more academic texts and the role of abstract nouns, classification, description and generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language
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ACELA1537 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1805
Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using rhythm, sound effects, monologue, layout, navigation and colour
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ACELT1805 | 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
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ACELY1725 | 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
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ACELA1531 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1623
Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetry, for example haiku, tankas, couplets, free verse and verse novels
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ACELT1623 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1804
Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information, selecting body language, voice qualities and other elements, (for example music and sound) to add interest and meaning
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ACELY1804 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1622
analysing and explaining the structure and features of short stories discussing the purposes and appeal of different authorial choices for structure and language
Elaboration | ACELT1622 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1765
investigating the influence on written language of communicative technologies like SMS, text, email and Twitter
Elaboration | ACELY1765 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1804
choosing vocabulary and spoken text and sentence structures for particular purposes and audiences, adapting language choices to meet the perceived audience needs, such as debating a topic with a team from another school, introducing a speaker at a school …
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1804 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum