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AC9E10LA03

analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 10.

AC9E10LA01

understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people

AC9E10LA02

understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values

AC9E10LA04

understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes

AC9E10LA05

analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas

AC9E10LA06

analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax

AC9E10LA07

evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations

AC9E10LA08

use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts

AC9E10LA09

understand how authors use and experiment with punctuation

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E10LA03 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 10.

  1. Year 9AC9E9LA01recognise how language empowers relationships and roles
  2. Year 9AC9E9LA02understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor
  3. Year 9AC9E9LA03examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination
  4. Year 9AC9E9LA04investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives
  5. Year 9AC9E9LA05identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment
  6. Year 9AC9E9LA06understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text
  7. Year 9AC9E9LA07analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning
  8. Year 9AC9E9LA08analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone
  9. Year 9AC9E9LA09understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes

Planning against AC9E10LA03?

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