English / Year 9 / Literacy / Creating texts

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Curriculum content descriptions

Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features (ACELY1747)

Elaborations
  • checking for run on sentences, eliminating unnecessary detail or repetition, and providing clear introductory and concluding paragraphs
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Grammar,  Editing,  Vocabularies

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