Year 8 English
The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …
Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1548
Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning
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ACELA1548 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1630
Identify and evaluate devices that create tone, for example humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody in poetry, humorous prose, drama or visual texts
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ACELT1630 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1768
Experiment with particular language features drawn from different types of texts, including combinations of language and visual choices to create new texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1768 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1632
combining visual and digital elements to create layers of meaning for serious and humorous purposes
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1632 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELY1810
combining verbal, visual and sound elements in imaginative multimodal texts
Elaboration (1) | ACELY1810 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1548
analysing the relationship between visual elements and text in non-fiction texts such as documentaries, television news, online newspapers and digital magazines
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1548 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1768
creating and performing scripts for short plays that make use of the affordances of visual, verbal and additional modes (for example music) to create atmosphere, to deepen interpretation of verbal meaning and to enhance the drama of a performance
Elaboration | ACELT1768 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1628
recognising the similarities and differences between types of texts (for example a complex picture book and a feature film) in order to understand how different combinations of words and images lead readers to interpret visual texts in particular …
Elaboration | ACELT1628 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum