Australian Curriculum, Version 9.0: Year 7
Skills available for Australia year 7 English language arts objectives
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Language
Language for interacting with others
AC9E7LA01 Understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
AC9E7LA01 Understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
AC9E7LA02 Recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
AC9E7LA02 Recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
Text structure and organisation
AC9E7LA03 Identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Author's purpose and tone
Text structures
AC9E7LA03 Identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
Author's purpose and tone
Text structures
AC9E7LA04 Understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
AC9E7LA04 Understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E7LA05 Understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
AC9E7LA05 Understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
AC9E7LA06 Understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
AC9E7LA06 Understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
AC9E7LA07 Analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
AC9E7LA07 Analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
AC9E7LA08 Investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
AC9E7LA08 Investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
AC9E7LA09 Understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
Semicolons, colons and commas
Commas
Dashes, hyphens and ellipses
AC9E7LA09 Understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
Semicolons, colons and commas
Commas
Dashes, hyphens and ellipses
Literature
Literature and contexts
AC9E7LE01 Identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
AC9E7LE01 Identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
Engaging with and responding to literature
AC9E7LE02 Form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others' opinions and justifying a response
AC9E7LE02 Form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others' opinions and justifying a response
AC9E7LE03 Explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts
Allusions
Literary devices
AC9E7LE03 Explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts
Allusions
Literary devices
AC9E7LE04 Discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
AC9E7LE04 Discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
Examining literature
AC9E7LE05 Identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
AC9E7LE05 Identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
AC9E7LE06 Identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Allusions
Literary devices
AC9E7LE06 Identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
Allusions
Literary devices
Creating literature
AC9E7LE07 Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
AC9E7LE07 Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Literacy
Texts in context
AC9E7LY01 Explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
AC9E7LY01 Explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
Interacting with others
AC9E7LY02 Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
AC9E7LY02 Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E7LY03 Analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
Author's purpose and tone
Text structures
AC9E7LY03 Analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
Author's purpose and tone
Text structures
AC9E7LY04 Explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
AC9E7LY04 Explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
AC9E7LY05 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
AC9E7LY05 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
Creating texts
AC9E7LY06 Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
Creative techniques
Author's purpose and tone
Text structure
Organise writing
Develop and support arguments
Edit and revise
Sentences, fragments and run-ons
Capitalisation
AC9E7LY06 Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
Creative techniques
Author's purpose and tone
Text structure
Organise writing
Develop and support arguments
Edit and revise
Sentences, fragments and run-ons
Capitalisation
AC9E7LY07 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace
AC9E7LY07 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace
Word knowledge
AC9E7LY08 Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them
Prefixes and suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
AC9E7LY08 Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them
Prefixes and suffixes
Greek and Latin roots