Year 7
Outcomes
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Language
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Text structure and organisation
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VCELA369
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 metaphorsExamples
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VCELA380
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 textsExamples
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VCELA381
Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clausesExamples
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VCELA369
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Expressing and developing ideas
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VCELA384
Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins to learn new words and how to spell themPlay Activities 102Examples
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VCELA384
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Text structure and organisation
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Literature
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Examining literature
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VCELT375
Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetryExamples
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VCELT375
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Examining literature
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Literacy
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Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
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VCELY379
Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purposeExamples
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VCELY377
Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of textsExamples
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VCELY378
Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sourcesExamples
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VCELY379
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Creating texts
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VCELY388
Edit for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, reordering sentences and adding or substituting words for impactExamples
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VCELY388
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Interpreting, analysing, evaluating