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AC9E8LA09

understand and use punctuation conventions including semicolons and dashes to extend ideas and support meaning

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 8.

AC9E8LA01

recognise how language shapes relationships and roles

AC9E8LA02

understand how layers of meaning can be created when evaluating by using literary devices such as simile and metaphor

AC9E8LA03

explain 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

AC9E8LA04

understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims

AC9E8LA05

examine a variety of clause structures including embedded clauses that add information and expand ideas in sentences

AC9E8LA06

understand the effect of nominalisation in texts

AC9E8LA07

investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance and layer meaning

AC9E8LA08

identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E8LA09 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 8.

  1. Year 7AC9E7LA01understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
  2. Year 7AC9E7LA02recognise 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
  3. Year 7AC9E7LA03identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
  4. Year 7AC9E7LA04understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
  5. Year 7AC9E7LA05understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
  6. Year 7AC9E7LA06understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
  7. Year 7AC9E7LA07analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
  8. Year 7AC9E7LA08investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
  9. Year 7AC9E7LA09understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
  10. Year 9AC9E9LA01recognise how language empowers relationships and roles
  11. Year 9AC9E9LA02understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor
  12. Year 9AC9E9LA03examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination
  13. 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
  14. Year 9AC9E9LA05identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment
  15. Year 9AC9E9LA06understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text
  16. Year 9AC9E9LA07analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning
  17. Year 9AC9E9LA08analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone
  18. Year 9AC9E9LA09understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes

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