Year 10 English skills

understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people

understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values

analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose

understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes

analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas

analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax

evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations

use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts

understand how authors use and experiment with punctuation

analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors

reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature

analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response

evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature

analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts

compare and evaluate how “voice” as a literary device is used in different types of texts, such as poetry, novels and film, to evoke emotional responses

analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts

create and edit literary texts with a sustained “voice”, selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences

analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts

listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts

analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes

analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose

integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

use knowledge of the spelling system to spell words and to manipulate standard spelling for particular effects