English / Year 8 / Literacy / Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Curriculum content descriptions

Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts (ACELY1733)

Elaborations
  • identifying the meaning of a wide range of words, including technical and literary language in various contexts
  • using print and digital/online thesauruses and dictionaries of synonyms, antonyms and homonyms and subject-specific dictionaries
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Reading comprehension

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