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AC9E7LA02

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

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 7.

AC9E7LA01

understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities

AC9E7LA03

identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts

AC9E7LA04

understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs

AC9E7LA05

understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

AC9E7LA06

understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences

AC9E7LA07

analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective

AC9E7LA08

investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings

AC9E7LA09

understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E7LA02 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 7.

  1. Year 6AC9E6LA01understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
  2. Year 6AC9E6LA02understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
  3. Year 6AC9E6LA03explain 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
  4. Year 6AC9E6LA04understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations
  5. Year 6AC9E6LA05understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
  6. Year 6AC9E6LA06understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups
  7. Year 6AC9E6LA07identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning
  8. Year 6AC9E6LA08identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
  9. Year 6AC9E6LA09understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue
  10. Year 8AC9E8LA01recognise how language shapes relationships and roles
  11. Year 8AC9E8LA02understand how layers of meaning can be created when evaluating by using literary devices such as simile and metaphor
  12. Year 8AC9E8LA03explain how texts are structured depending on their purpose and how language features vary, recognising that some texts are hybrids that combine different genres or elements of different genres
  13. Year 8AC9E8LA04understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims
  14. Year 8AC9E8LA05examine a variety of clause structures including embedded clauses that add information and expand ideas in sentences
  15. Year 8AC9E8LA06understand the effect of nominalisation in texts
  16. Year 8AC9E8LA07investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance and layer meaning
  17. Year 8AC9E8LA08identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts
  18. Year 8AC9E8LA09understand and use punctuation conventions including semicolons and dashes to extend ideas and support meaning

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