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Yr 7 English Achievement Standard

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing)

By the end of Year 7, students understand how text structures can influence the complexity of a text and are dependent on audience, purpose and context. They demonstrate understanding of how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary affects meaning.

Students explain issues and ideas from a variety of sources, analysing supporting evidence and implied meaning. They select specific details from texts to develop their own response, recognising that texts reflect different viewpoints. They listen for and explain different perspectives in texts.

Productive modes (speaking, writing and creating)

Students understand how the selection of a variety of language features can influence an audience. They understand how to draw on personal knowledge, textual analysis and other sources to express or challenge a point of view. They create texts showing how language features and images from other texts can be combined for effect.

Students create structured and coherent texts for a range of purposes and audiences. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, using language features to engage the audience. When creating and editing texts they demonstrate understanding of grammar, use a variety of more specialised vocabulary and accurate spelling and punctuation.

SOURCE: School Curriculum and Standards Authority. (2016). English v8.1- Year 7 Syllabus. URL: https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-browser/english-v8

What is Poetry?

Poetry is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm. It often employs rhyme and meter (a set of rules governing the number and arrangement of syllables in each line). In poetry, words are strung together to form sounds, images, and ideas that might be too complex or abstract to describe directly.

Source: Literary Term (n.d.). Poetry: definitions and examples. URL: https://literaryterms.net/poetry/

Digibook: What's with poetry?

We may not go out of our way to deliberately produce poetry everyday, but poetry can be found in what we write and how we speak all the time. From rhythm and rhyme, to sounds and images in words, you're probably a poet and you don't even know it (sorry, we couldn't help it). In this digibook, Matt from Sydney Story Factory explores the rules of poetry and when they can be broken, and how writing poetry might help you scratch an itch you didn't even know you had.

Digibook link

Source: Sydney Story Factory and ABC Education

Useful websites

Shadow Poetry: A Poet's Writing Resource
ABC Education (with Sydney Story Factory): What's with poetry? [Digibook/videos]
-The rules of poetry and how they can be broken
-Writing poetry
WikiHow: How to Write a Poem
ABC Education: Why Do We Create Poetry?
There are many reasons why you might write poetry. Maybe it's because you saw something beautiful and you want to share that feeling with others. Or maybe something funny happened to you on your way to school and you want to remember it. You don't have to be a creative genius to write poetry and you don't have to have the most amazing story to tell, so give poetry a chance!
Source: ABC Education

Books from the catalogue

Poetry by Raum, Elizabeth.
Call Number: 808.1 RAU
ISBN: 9781406212112
Publication Date: 2010
What is poetry? : the essential guide to reading & writing poems. by Rosen, Michael.
Call Number: 809.1 ROS
ISBN: 9781844287635
Publication Date: 2016.
Summary: Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invaluable handbook, he shares this knowledge and experience in book form for the very first time. Starting with a detailed analysis of a number of classic poems, he offers a real 'writer's guide' to writing and performing poems, as well as a wealth of technical information and tips. He then takes a fascinating look at a selection of his own poems and explains how and why he wrote them. [Source: Walker Books]