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AC9E9LA08

analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 9.

AC9E9LA01

recognise how language empowers relationships and roles

AC9E9LA02

understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor

AC9E9LA03

examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination

AC9E9LA04

investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives

AC9E9LA05

identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment

AC9E9LA06

understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text

AC9E9LA07

analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning

AC9E9LA09

understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E9LA08 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 9.

  1. Year 8AC9E8LA01recognise how language shapes relationships and roles
  2. Year 8AC9E8LA02understand how layers of meaning can be created when evaluating by using literary devices such as simile and metaphor
  3. 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
  4. Year 8AC9E8LA04understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims
  5. Year 8AC9E8LA05examine a variety of clause structures including embedded clauses that add information and expand ideas in sentences
  6. Year 8AC9E8LA06understand the effect of nominalisation in texts
  7. Year 8AC9E8LA07investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance and layer meaning
  8. Year 8AC9E8LA08identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts
  9. Year 8AC9E8LA09understand and use punctuation conventions including semicolons and dashes to extend ideas and support meaning
  10. Year 10AC9E10LA01understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
  11. Year 10AC9E10LA02understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values
  12. Year 10AC9E10LA03analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose
  13. Year 10AC9E10LA04understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes
  14. Year 10AC9E10LA05analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas
  15. Year 10AC9E10LA06analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax
  16. Year 10AC9E10LA07evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations
  17. Year 10AC9E10LA08use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts
  18. Year 10AC9E10LA09understand how authors use and experiment with punctuation

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