Year 7 English · AC9E7LY01

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

Students learn to explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts. They identify precise evidence and explain…

Ready to project and teach

Learning goalsSay it simply

1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Students learn to explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts. They identify precise evidence and explain or evaluate how a language, structural, literary or multimodal choice shapes meaning, representation, audience response or purpose. Key concepts include language, reading.

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

Key conceptTeach from the board

2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Predict with evidence

Before reading on, make a prediction from the title, picture or previous sentence and name the clue that supports it.

Infer, do not guess

If a character shuts the door quietly and whispers, infer a possible reason using those details; distinguish the inference from a fact stated directly.

Monitor meaning

When a sentence stops making sense, reread, check a key word, look at surrounding sentences and revise the interpretation.

Summarise the important idea

After a short section, state the central idea and the most relevant supporting detail without retelling every event.

Clean visual examplesOne-page board

Clean one-page examples

AC9E7LY01 - Explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
Example 1

Step 1: Explicit Teaching & Modelling Define the outcome-specific metalanguage (language, reading) and model how to identify the feature, select evidence and explain or use it.

Example 2

Step 2: Guided Analysis Work through a second example together: What is the choice or feature? Where is the evidence? What does it do here?

Example 3

Step 3: Collaborative / Independent Practice Students annotate, compare, read, edit, speak or compose with a fresh example, then apply the concept independently.

Example 4

Step 4: Formative Assessment Use an unseen micro-text, oral task or creation task. Require precise evidence plus a justified explanation or deliberate crafting choice.

Curriculum examplesCopied content

Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

  • E1: investigating the influence of communicative technologies such as SMS, email and GIFs on written language
  • E2: analysing the impact of interactive elements of digital texts on texts such as magazines read in a digital form
  • E3: identifying changes in topics considered to be newsworthy as a result of technological change
Questions and answersWith answers

Practice Thought & Formative Assessment

Use a fresh example that has not been modelled. Ask the student to show the exact clue, feature or language choice and explain or use it independently.

Practice and reviewReady for practice

3. Common Student Misconceptions

  • Feature spotting: Explain how the exact feature shapes meaning, communication or response.
  • Retelling: Select precise evidence and analyse it rather than repeating content.
  • Automatic effect: Interpret choices through audience, purpose, context and surrounding text.
  • Vague explanation: Replace “this makes it better” with the exact feature, evidence and likely effect.

Practice Thought & Formative Assessment

Use a fresh example that has not been modelled. Ask the student to show the exact clue, feature or language choice and explain or use it independently.

Curriculum alignmentStart here

1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Students learn to explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts. They identify precise evidence and explain or evaluate how a language, structural, literary or multimodal choice shapes meaning, representation, audience response or purpose. Key concepts include language, reading.

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

Related resourcesKeep teaching

Related Classroom Views

Continue through closely related Year 7 English concepts.

Explore all Year 7 English topics

Teach & ExplainTeaching slides and samples

Teach this topic step by step

Explore optional teaching slide packs for classroom lessons and explanations at home.

Browse Teach & Explain · Browse Print & Go

Teachers: follow SkillrHub on TPT, then email us to request a free sample before buying. Include the year, subject and topic or curriculum code.

Request a free sample

After trying the sample, honest feedback is welcome. A TPT review is optional, where available, and does not need to be positive.