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

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

Code

AC9E9LA03

Year level

Year 9

Subject

English

Strand

Language

Sub-strand

Text structure and organisation

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

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

Related Year 9 English descriptors

• AC9E9LA01Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles
• AC9E9LA02Understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor
• AC9E9LA04Investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives
• AC9E9LA05Identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment
• AC9E9LA06Understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text
• AC9E9LA07Analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning
• AC9E9LA08Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone
• AC9E9LA09Understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes

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