Year 7 English lesson resources
Every Year 7 English content descriptor in the Australian Curriculum v9. Pick a descriptor to see aligned, classroom-ready resources, or generate a full lesson set from any of them in minutes.
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- AC9E7LA01Understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
- AC9E7LA02Recognise 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
- AC9E7LA03Identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
- AC9E7LA04Understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
- AC9E7LA05Understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
- AC9E7LA06Understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
- AC9E7LA07Analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
- AC9E7LA08Investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
- AC9E7LA09Understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
Literature
- AC9E7LE01Identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
- AC9E7LE02Form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response
- AC9E7LE03Explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts
- AC9E7LE04Discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
- AC9E7LE05Identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
- AC9E7LE06Identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
- AC9E7LE07Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Literacy
- AC9E7LY01Explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
- AC9E7LY02Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
- AC9E7LY03Analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
- AC9E7LY04Explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
- AC9E7LY05Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
- AC9E7LY06Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
- AC9E7LY07Plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace
- AC9E7LY08Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them
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