Year 7 English skills

understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities

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

identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts

understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs

understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences

analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective

investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings

understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning

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

form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response

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

discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage

identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives

identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry

create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts

explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts

use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts

analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose

explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas

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

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

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