Year 9 English · Australian Curriculum v9
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical
Content descriptor
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
- Code
- AC9E9LY06
- Year level
- Year 9
- Subject
- English
- Strand
- Literacy
- Sub-strand
- Creating texts
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Learning intention
We are learning to plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
Cloze sentence
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be , reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
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
- 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
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Frequently asked questions
What is AC9E9LY06?
AC9E9LY06 is a content descriptor in the Year 9 English curriculum (Australian Curriculum v9, Literacy strand). It asks students to plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
What year level is AC9E9LY06?
AC9E9LY06 sits in the Year 9 English curriculum.
How can I create resources for AC9E9LY06?
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