English
In Year 7 students will be studying The Australian Curriculum: English, which is organised into three interrelated strands that support students’ growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English.
English
Year 7
In Year 7 students will be studying The Australian Curriculum: English, which is organised into three interrelated strands that support students’ growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking and writing. The three strands are:
- Language: knowing about the English language;
- Literature: understanding, appreciating, responding to, analysing and creating literature;
- Literacy: expanding the repertoire of English usage.
The vehicle for studying English is texts and these can be written, spoken or multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Texts provide important opportunities for learning about aspects of human experience.
In Year 7 students will continue to practise, consolidate and extend what they have learned from previous years. They also extend their understanding of how language works and learn to transfer this knowledge to different contexts.
The notion of valuing certain texts as ‘literature’ is introduced. Students learn how such texts can be discussed and analysed in relation to themes, ideas and historical and cultural contexts.
Students engage with a variety of genres and modes. They re-enact, represent and describe texts in order to display their understanding of narrative, theme, purpose, context and argument and to defend their ideas in written and oral modes. Students are given further opportunities to create increasingly sophisticated and multi-modal texts in groups and individually.
