Year 9 English · Australian Curriculum v9
Investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives
Content descriptor
Investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives.
- Code
- AC9E9LA04
- Year level
- Year 9
- Subject
- English
- Strand
- Language
- Sub-strand
- Text structure and organisation
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Learning intention
We are learning to investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives.
Cloze sentence
Investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including , and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives.
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
- AC9E9LA03Examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination
- 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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Frequently asked questions
What is AC9E9LA04?
AC9E9LA04 is a content descriptor in the Year 9 English curriculum (Australian Curriculum v9, Language strand). It asks students to investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives.
What year level is AC9E9LA04?
AC9E9LA04 sits in the Year 9 English curriculum.
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