Australian Curriculum • Year 7 • English
Year 7 English Curriculum Australia: Reading, Writing and Language
Year 7 English moves students into more sustained analysis and composition. They examine themes, viewpoints and language choices, read across genres and create analytical, persuasive, informative and imaginative texts for increasingly specific audiences.
Separate interpretation from evidence
Students may have a valid idea about a text, but they need evidence to support it. Encourage a simple pattern: make a claim, select a relevant detail, then explain how that detail supports the claim. This becomes a foundation for secondary analytical writing.
Write with purpose and structure
Planning should identify audience, purpose and logical sequence. In persuasive and analytical writing, paragraphs need a clear controlling idea and relevant evidence. In creative work, language and structural choices should be deliberate rather than decorative.
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The Year 7 English curriculum units allow targeted practice across reading, language and writing. SkillrHub connects each unit to Topic Guide, Teacher Slides, Worksheet, Practice and Test so feedback leads directly to a relevant revision resource.
Year 7 English comprehension and worksheets
Year 7 comprehension should ask students to interpret ideas, select relevant evidence and explain how language or structure shapes meaning. Writing lessons should connect audience and purpose to paragraph structure, vocabulary, cohesion and editing rather than treating each feature as an isolated rule.
Browse the Year 7 English worksheets and curriculum units for reading, literature, language and writing. Each unit links its topic guide to a homework worksheet, Practice and Test so students can revise one skill at a time.
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Australian Curriculum v9
Year 7 English curriculum codes at a glance
This guide is linked to the exact Australian Curriculum v9 content descriptions used by SkillrHub. There are 24 Year 7 English curriculum codes in this subject. Use the code list below to move from the broad year-level overview to the exact skill a student is learning.
Language for interacting with others
AC9E7LA01 — How language expresses and creates personal and social identities
understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities.
AC9E7LA02 — Language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts...
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 — And describe how texts are structured differently depending on their...
identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts.
AC9E7LA04 — That the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal...
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 — How complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate...
understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas.
AC9E7LA06 — How consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves...
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...
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...
investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings.
AC9E7LA09 — The use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support...
understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning.
Literature and contexts
AC9E7LE01 — And explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues...
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...
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...
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.
AC9E7LE04 — The aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant...
discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage.
Examining literature
AC9E7LE05 — And explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine...
identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives.
AC9E7LE06 — And explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in...
identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry.
Creating literature
AC9E7LE07 — And edit literary texts that experiment with language features and...
create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts.
Texts in context
AC9E7LY01 — Explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and...
explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts.
Interacting with others
AC9E7LY02 — Interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including...
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...
analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose.
AC9E7LY04 — Explain the structure of ideas such as the use of...
explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology.
AC9E7LY05 — Comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning...
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...
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.
AC9E7LY07 — Plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences...
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 — How to use spelling rules and word origins; for example...
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.
Curriculum descriptions are reproduced from the curriculum data used to organise SkillrHub resources. The Australian Curriculum remains the authority for official wording and scope.
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