Achievement Standard English Year 8

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 8, students understand how the selection of text structures is influenced by the selection of language mode and how this varies for different purposes and audiences. Students explain …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELT1628

Understand and explain how combinations of words and images in texts are used to represent particular groups in society, and how texts position readers in relation to those groups

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELT1628 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELT1807

Recognise and explain differing viewpoints about the world, cultures, individual people and concerns represented in texts

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELT1807 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELT1629

Recognise, explain and analyse the ways literary texts draw on readers’ knowledge of other texts and enable new understanding and appreciation of aesthetic qualities

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELT1629 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1729

Analyse and explain how language has evolved over time and how technology and the media have influenced language use and forms of communication

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELY1729 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1735

Explore and explain the ways authors combine different modes and media in creating texts, and the impact of these choices on the viewer/listener

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELY1735 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1766

writing paragraphs of extended length that explain and substantiate a particular personal viewpoint

Elaboration | ACELA1766 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1546

analysing formal and persuasive texts to identify and explain language choices such as nominalisation

Elaboration | ACELA1546 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1626

investigating texts about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history from different sources and explaining differing viewpoints

Elaboration | ACELT1626 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1806

explaining how individual interpretations of these aspects are influenced by students’ own knowledge, values and cultural assumptions

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1806 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1767

select an aspect of a text such as a sentence pattern or an image or word and adapt it for a new context explaining how the change will affect meaning

Elaboration | ACELT1767 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1729

identifying and explaining how mobile technologies are influencing language uses and structures

Elaboration | ACELY1729 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1730

listen to a conversation or speech and identify the point being made and explain the tone and manner of presentation. Change the focus of the conversation or speech and identify how meaning has changed

Elaboration | ACELY1730 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1734

explaining whether the author conveys meaning adequately, particularly in distinguishing fact from opinion

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1734 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum