Government Standards
Australian Curriculum
Language Arts - Grade 7
Assessment Exam - Australian Curriculum - Level 7 English| Language | eTAP Lesson |
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| Language variation and change | |
| Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts and communicating
AU.7.ACELA1528 |
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| Language for interaction | |
| Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities
AU.7.ACELA1529 |
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| Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
AU.7.ACELA1782 |
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| Text structure and organisation | |
| Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors
AU.7.ACELA1531 |
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| Understand that the coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example overviews, initial and concluding paragraphs and topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts
AU.7.ACELA1763 |
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| Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses
AU.7.ACELA1532 |
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| Expressing and developing ideas | |
| Recognise and understand that subordinate clauses embedded within noun groups/phrases are a common feature of written sentence structures and increase the density of information
AU.7.ACELA1534 |
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| Understand how modality is achieved through discriminating choices in modal verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns
AU.7.ACELA1536 |
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| Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle and social distance
AU.7.ACELA1764 |
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| Investigate vocabulary typical of extended and more academic texts and the role of abstract nouns, classification, description and generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language
AU.7.ACELA1537 |
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| Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins, for example Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to learn new words and how to spell them
AU.7.ACELA1539 |
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| Literature | eTAP Lesson |
| Literature and context | |
| Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts
AU.7.ACELT1619 |
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| Responding to literature | |
| Reflect on ideas and opinions about characters, settings and events in literary texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others and justifying a point of view
AU.7.ACELT1620 |
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| Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts
AU.7.ACELT1621 |
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| Discuss aspects of texts, for example their aesthetic and social value, using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
AU.7.ACELT1803 |
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| Examining literature | |
| Recognise and analyse the ways that characterisation, events and settings are combined in narratives, and discuss the purposes and appeal of different approaches
AU.7.ACELT1622 |
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| Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetry, for example haiku, tankas, couplets, free verse and verse novels
AU.7.ACELT1623 |
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| Creating literature | |
| Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition
AU.7.ACELT1625 |
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| Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using rhythm, sound effects, monologue, layout, navigation and colour
AU.7.ACELT1805 |
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| Literacy | eTAP Lesson |
| Texts in context | |
| Analyse and explain the effect of technological innovations on texts, particularly media texts
AU.7.ACELY1765 |
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| Interacting with others | |
| Identify and discuss main ideas, concepts and points of view in spoken texts to evaluate qualities, for example the strength of an argument or the lyrical power of a poetic rendition
AU.7.ACELY1719 |
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| Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information, selecting body language, voice qualities and other elements, (for example music and sound) to add interest and meaning
AU.7.ACELY1804 |
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| Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing
AU.7.ACELY1720 |
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| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | |
| Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
AU.7.ACELY1721 |
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| Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts
AU.7.ACELY1722 |
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| Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources
AU.7.ACELY1723 |
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| Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences
AU.7.ACELY1724 |
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| Creating texts | |
| Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas
AU.7.ACELY1725 |
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| Edit for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, reordering sentences and adding or substituting words for impact
AU.7.ACELY1726 |
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| Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and supports writing for extended periods
AU.7.ACELY1727 |
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| Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts
AU.7.ACELY1728 |
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