Year 10 English Content Descriptions - Literacy
Texts in context
Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and relate to contexts
WA10ELYT1
For example:
- identifying stereotypes about Australia and Australian people in popular media and exploring how these representations are influenced by context
Interacting with others
Listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts
WA10ELYI1
For example:
- presenting opinions about a podcast or radio interview in a group discussion
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes
WA10ELYA1
For example:
- exploring the implicit and explicit values, beliefs and attitudes expressed and critiqued in social or political cartoons
Analyse and evaluate how authors and creators use text structures to organise ideas and achieve a purpose
WA10ELYA2
For example:
- evaluating how the organisation of ideas in a documentary achieves a purpose
Integrate comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring, to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas when listening, reading and viewing
WA10ELYA3
For example:
- interpreting how visual, written and audio features represent abstract concepts in advertising, such as the representation of parenthood
- watching or listening to a speech about the meaning of success and considering what the concept means to the viewer or listener
Creating texts
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical
WA10ELYC1
Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical
WA10ELYC2
Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and supports writing for extended periods in relevant required contexts
WA10ELYC3
Select, adapt and experiment with features of digital tools to create texts for a range of purposes and audiences
WA10ELYC4
For example:
- creating two short radio or podcast interviews focusing on the same topic but for two different audiences
- creating a playlist of songs that is inspired by a written text using a digital platform or program, and writing a rationale justifying the choices of digital features