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 (3) ACELA1564

identifying appeals to shared cultural knowledge, values and beliefs

Elaboration (3) | ACELA1564 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELA1569

understanding that a sentence can begin with a coordinating conjunction for stylistic effect (for example, ‘And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it’)

Elaboration (3) | ACELA1569 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELA1570

observing how abstraction allows for greater generalisation at a higher level (for example, ‘the political, religious, social and economic features of the society’ – which is an abstract noun group/phrase)

Elaboration (3) | ACELA1570 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELT1640

reflecting upon and asking questions about interpretations of texts relevant to a student’s cultural background

Elaboration (3) | ACELT1640 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1749

identifying and evaluating poetic, lyrical language in the depiction of people, culture, places, events, things and concepts in texts

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1749 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1750

selecting subject matter and language to position readers to accept representations of people, events, ideas and information

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1750 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1813

adapting voice effects, such as tone, volume, pitch, pauses and change of pace, for their specific effects such as putting forward a point of view or attempting to persuade an audience to a course of action

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1813 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum