Year 7 English Content Descriptions - Literacy
Texts in context
Explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts, including media texts
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For example:
- exploring new forms of digital texts, such as social media and vlogs, and the interactive nature of the responses they generate
- investigating how picture books have been adapted into different forms, such as short films, animations and audiobooks using current technology
Interacting with others
Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information, including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
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For example:
- listening to a peer’s oral presentation about an autobiographical event and asking a clarifying question
- choosing appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures for purposes and audiences
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to purpose and audience
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For example:
- explaining the relationship between language features, and purpose and audience, such as identifying the most likely target audience for a television show
Explain how ideas are organised through the use of text structures, such as taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
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For example:
- identifying cause and effect in persuasive texts and how an audience may be convinced to take a course of action
- explaining how a key idea in a speech is represented through an extended metaphor
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring, to analyse and summarise information and ideas when listening, reading and viewing
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For example:
- determining and summarising the key idea/s of paragraphs or chapters in an informative text
- comparing the presentation of ideas in formal and informal speeches and determining the reasons for the differences
Creating texts
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
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Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice, including volume, tone, pitch and pace
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Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and supports writing for extended periods
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Select and use features of digital tools to create texts for different purposes and audiences
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For example:
- creating a multimodal book trailer to promote a novel to a specific audience
- creating an extract from an audiobook that incorporates narration, sound effects and music to engage the listener