AC9E6LA01 – understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
AC9E6LA02 – understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
Text structure and organisation
AC9E6LA03 – explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
AC9E6LA04 – understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations
Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E6LA05 – understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
AC9E6LA06 – understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups
AC9E6LA07 – identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning
AC9E6LA08 – identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
AC9E6LA09 – understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue