Year 9 English Content Descriptions - Language
Year 9
Content descriptions
Language for interacting with others
Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles
WA9ELAI1
For example:
- identifying the various communities to which students belong and exploring how language reinforces membership of these communities, such as the slang of teenage groups
Understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor
WA9ELAI2
For example:
- exploring how advertisements use figurative language and evocative vocabulary to indirectly influence readers and viewers to evaluate a product or service
- discussing the direct use of evaluative language in a range of product reviews
Text structure, organisation and features
Examine how authors and creators adapt text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements and their combination
WA9ELAT1
For example:
- comparing the use and effects of linear and non-linear narrative structures in short stories
- exploring how interactive graphic novels combine words, illustrations, animations and audio to create an interactive experience
Investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives
WA9ELAT2
For example:
- sequencing and developing an argument using language, such as initially, moreover and consequently
Language for expressing and developing ideas
Identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment
WA9ELALA1
For example:
- exploring the effects of using an interrupting clause, such as His friend, who had left home the previous year, suddenly returned.
- using a dependent clause on its own intentionally, such as If you see what I mean.
- using a sentence fragment, such as Breathtaking!
Understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in texts
WA9ELALA2
For example:
- exploring sections of academic and technical texts, and analysing the use of abstract nouns, such as the previous argument and the prologue to summarise and distil information and preceding explanations, and structure the argument
- comparing the effect of different types of analytical paragraphs, including those that use nominalisation and those that do not
Analyse how symbols in visual and multimodal texts augment meaning
WA9ELALA3
For example:
- investigating the symbolism of specific seasons, weather and colours in a film, and their contribution to viewers’ understandings
- exploring how symbols have different meanings for different groups and cultures
Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone
WA9ELALA4
For example:
- identifying vocabulary choices that create mood in a text
- altering the tone of a narrative by changing the vocabulary in dialogue tags, such as ‘Sit down,’ she whispered. ‘Sit down!’ she screamed. ‘Sit down?’ she argued.
Understand and use punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes
WA9ELALA5
For example:
- producing accurate references in formal writing and identifying when it is appropriate to use direct quotations or to report sources more generally
- including a reference list at the end of a slideshow in a multimodal presentation
Word knowledge
Use word knowledge to maintain conventional spelling, and recognise that spelling can be varied for particular effects
WA9ELAW1
For example:
- exploring the spelling of neologisms and their effects in media texts, such as selfie and Paralympics
- analysing how spelling is used to represent the distinctive speech of a character by noting where authors have dropped letters from words to emulate the sound of spoken words