Language
Language for interacting with others
Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
WA10ELAI1
For example:
- writing an open letter that uses language to empower a social group
- discussing how language can be disempowering, such as the use of gendered words manpower or housewife
Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly, reveals an individual’s values
WA10ELAI2
For example:
- identifying subtle or implied values communicated through evaluative language, such as the connotations of elder, senior citizen, geriatric and old timer
Text structure, organisation and features
Analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose
WA10ELAT1
For example:
- evaluating the use of visual, audio and written features and structures to influence audience responses in television and online news and current affairs programs
Understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and visual features can be integrated for different purposes
WA10ELAT2
For example:
- evaluating the effect of the integration of texts and images in graphic novels
- writing an online or print feature article which integrates graphics or images for a purpose
Language for expressing and developing ideas
Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas
WA10ELALA1
For example:
- exploring how a sentence can begin with a coordinating conjunction for stylistic effect, such as And she went on planning how she would manage it.
Analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax
WA10ELALA2
For example:
- identifying how logical relations between ideas are built up by combining main with subordinate clauses that indicate cause, result, manner, concession, condition and so on, such as Although the poet was not generally well-received by critics during her life, her reputation grew substantially after her death.
Evaluate the features of visual and multimodal texts, and the effects of those choices on representations
WA10ELALA3
For example:
- examining features of drama television shows that create representations, such as evaluating the use of light and dark
Use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts
WA10ELALA4
For example:
- writing an analytical essay about rhythm in poetry with appropriate use of terms, such as enjambment, end-stop, caesura
Understand how authors use and experiment with punctuation
WA10ELALA5
For example:
- examining an author’s use of ellipses to create tentativeness in a character’s speech
- reviewing the use of punctuation to represent emotions, such as the use of multiple exclamation marks or punctuation emojis
Word knowledge
Use word knowledge to maintain conventional spelling and to manipulate standard spelling for particular effects
WA10ELAW1
For example:
- exploring the use of ‘sensational spelling’ in which words are deliberately spelt in non‑standard ways, such as kwik‑e‑mart