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• English: Level 2 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen for particular purposes. They listen for and manipulate sound combinations and rhythmic sound patterns. When discussing their ideas and experiences, students use everyday language features and topic-specific vocabulary. They explain their preferences for aspects of texts using...

  Level description | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level 2 achievement standards - Writing

  Students create texts that show how images support the meaning of the text. They accurately spell words with regular spelling patterns and can write words with less common long vowels, trigraphs and silent letters. They use some punctuation accurately, and can write words and sentences legibly...

  Level description | English | Level 2 | Writing

• English: Level 2 description

  In Level 2, students communicate with peers, teachers, students from other classes, and community members.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as...

  Level description | English

• VCELA235

  Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context

  Elaborations

  • exploring how terms of address are used to signal different kinds of relationships
  • exploring the differences between the language used when giving a presentation and when talking to friends
  • exploring culturally specific greetings and expressions of politeness

  VCELA235 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA237

  Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose

  Elaborations

  • interpreting new terminology drawing on prior knowledge, analogies and connections with known words

  VCELA237 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA234

  Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background

  Elaborations

  • identifying examples and features of different kinds of spoken, non-verbal, written and visual communication from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and from several Asian cultures within Australia, and associating those features with particular communities
  • recognising some phrases in the languages of the class and community, for example greetings and expressions of politeness

  VCELA234 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA236

  Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things

  Elaborations

  • exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’
  • exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences
  • exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’

  VCELA236 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA224

  Understand how texts are made cohesive by the use of resources, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms

  Elaborations

  • exploring how texts develop their themes and ideas, building information by connecting similar and contrasting dissimilar things
  • mapping examples of word associations in texts, for example words that refer to the main character

  VCELA224 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA212

  Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose

  Elaborations

  • identifying the topic and type of a text through its visual presentation, for example cover design, packaging, title/subtitle and images
  • becoming familiar with the typical stages of text types, for example simple narratives, instructions and expositions

  VCELA212 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA215

  Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words

  Elaborations

  • comparing two versions of the same story, for example ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, identifying how a character’s actions and reactions are depicted differently by different illustrators

  VCELA215 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA213

  Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of diagrams

  Elaborations

  • recognising how chapters and table of contents, alphabetical order of index and glossary operate to guide access to information
  • learning about features of screen texts including menu buttons, drop down menus, links and live connections

  VCELA213 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA216

  Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

  Elaborations

  • exploring texts and identifying nouns that refer to characters, elements of the setting, and ideas
  • exploring illustrations and noun groups/phrases in picture books to identify how the participants have been represented by an illustrator
  • exploring names of people and places and how to write them using capital letters
  • building extended noun groups/phrases that provide a clear description of an item

  VCELA216 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA214

  Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction

  Elaborations

  • learning how to express ideas using compound sentences
  • learning how to join simple sentences with conjunctions, for example ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘so’, to construct compound sentences

  VCELA214 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA225

  Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists

  Elaborations

  • talking about how a comma can be used to separate two or more elements in a list, for example ‘At the museum they saw a tiger, a dinosaur and two snakes’

  VCELA225 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA217

  Learn some generalisations for adding suffixes to words

  Elaborations

  • joining discussion about how a suffix affects meaning, for example uncomfortable, older, and division, and investigating the ways words change when suffixes are added, for example, dropping the final 'e' when '-ing' is added

  VCELA217 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA218

  Recognise most letter–sound matches including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel digraphs and common long vowels, and understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations

  Elaborations

  • recognising when some letters are silent, for example knife, listen, castle, and providing the sound for less common sound-letter matches, for example ‘tion’

  VCELA218 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA226

  Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words

  Elaborations

  • drawing on knowledge of high-frequency sight words
  • drawing on knowledge of sound–letter relationships (for example breaking words into syllables and phonemes)
  • using known words in writing and spelling unknown words using developing visual, graphophonic and morphemic knowledge

  VCELA226 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA239

  Identify all Standard Australian English phonemes, including short and long vowels, separate sounds in clusters

  Elaborations

  • listening for and recognising different sounds in words during shared reading and read alouds including short vowels ('a' as in can), long vowels ('o' as in pony) and separate sounds in letter clusters ('s-t-r' in strap)

  VCELA239 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA227

  Use visual memory to write high-frequency words and words where spelling is not predictable from the sounds

  Elaborations

  • writing sight words (because, said) and other words that cannot be sounded out phonetically (bird, phone) by drawing on knowledge of letter patterns, word shape and possible sequencing of letters in English (for example, jam is possible but not jxm)

  VCELA227 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA238

  Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution

  Elaborations

  • separating and blending more difficult sounds when saying words, for example 'squint' and 'watch'
  • generating new words by deleting one phoneme and replacing it with another, for example substituting 'b' in 'back' with 's' to make 'sack'

  VCELA238 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language