Year 7 · English · Literacy
AC9E7LY07
plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace
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Taught alongside it
The rest of Literacy in Year 7.
explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
AC9E7LY02use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
AC9E7LY03analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
AC9E7LY04explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
AC9E7LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
AC9E7LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
AC9E7LY08understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them
The same idea, year by year
Where AC9E7LY07 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 7.
- Year 6AC9E6LY01examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
- Year 6AC9E6LY02use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
- Year 6AC9E6LY03analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences
- Year 6AC9E6LY04select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features; for example, table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings
- Year 6AC9E6LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources
- Year 6AC9E6LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features
- Year 6AC9E6LY07plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic-specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features
- Year 6AC9E6LY08use phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme–phoneme relationships to read and write increasingly complex words
- Year 6AC9E6LY09use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words
- Year 8AC9E8LY01identify how texts reflect contexts
- Year 8AC9E8LY02use interaction skills for identified purposes and situations, including when supporting or challenging the stated or implied meanings of spoken texts in presentations or discussion
- Year 8AC9E8LY03analyse 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
- Year 8AC9E8LY04analyse how authors organise ideas to develop and shape meaning
- Year 8AC9E8LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in texts
- Year 8AC9E8LY06plan, 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
- Year 8AC9E8LY07plan, 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
- Year 8AC9E8LY08apply learnt knowledge to spell accurately and to learn new words
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