Our tutors will teach Year 8 students following the Australian curriculum, ensuring they develop key skills in reading, writing, and communication. By the end of Year 8, students interact with others and create spoken and multimodal texts for different purposes and audiences. They analyse how texts reflect or challenge their contexts and use language features, including literary devices, to shape meaning. They create detailed written and multimodal texts, selecting structures and language features to organise and develop their ideas, using supporting evidence where needed.
Language:
Year 8 students learn how language can shape relationships, identities, and roles, and how text structures vary according to purpose. They explore cohesive devices like paragraph organisation and examine how complex sentences and nominalisation can expand ideas. They also investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance meaning and learn academic vocabulary suited to formal writing.
Literature:
Students engage with literature by discussing how stories reflect cultural and historical contexts, including works by First Nations Australian authors. They explore literary devices like similes, metaphors, and imagery, analysing how these elements create tone and evoke responses. Students also experiment with their own creative writing, using literary techniques to develop characters, plots, and settings.
Literacy:
Students practise listening and speaking in discussions, adapting their language for different audiences and purposes. They analyse how texts use language features to position readers, evaluate arguments, and interpret information from various sources. Writing tasks include creating and refining texts for a range of purposes, using advanced grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary. They also create multimodal presentations, combining visual and verbal elements to enhance their message.