← English – Year 8
Literacy
Texts in context
- AC9E8LY01 – identify how texts reflect contexts
Interacting with others
- AC9E8LY02 – use interaction skills for identified purposes and situations, including when supporting or challenging the stated or implied meanings of spoken texts in presentations or discussion
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
- AC9E8LY03 – analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text
- AC9E8LY04 – analyse how authors organise ideas to develop and shape meaning
- AC9E8LY05 – use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in texts
Creating texts
- AC9E8LY06 – plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
- AC9E8LY07 – plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for audiences and purposes, selecting language features, literary devices, visual features and features of voice to suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in texts in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
Word knowledge
- AC9E8LY08 – apply learnt knowledge to spell accurately and to learn new words
Sample Questions — Literacy