How language expresses and creates personal and social identities
understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
Year 7 English
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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