Investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives
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Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles
Language for interacting with othersUnderstand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor
Language for interacting with othersExamine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination
Text structure and organisationIdentify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment
Language for expressing and developing ideasUnderstand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text
Language for expressing and developing ideasAnalyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning
Language for expressing and developing ideas