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• Personal and Social Capability: Levels 3 and 4 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 4, students explain the consequences of emotional responses in a range of social situations. They recognise personal strengths and challenges and identify skills they would like to develop. They suggest strategies for coping with difficult situations. They persist with tasks...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4

• Personal and Social Capability: Levels 3 and 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, the curriculum focuses on developing students’ understandings of positive relationships and connections. Students extend their emotional literacy via an enhanced vocabulary of understanding and describing emotions. They learn about the importance of valuing difference...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• VCNRC020

  Participate in everyday classroom activities, such as asking for permission, requesting help, asking how to say or write something, and praising or encouraging peers

  Elaborations

  • asking for permission and requesting help using frequently used phrases
  • asking how to say or write a word or expression
  • praising and encouraging peers
  • using words, phrases or interjections which can be used in conversation

  VCNRC020 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCNRC021

  Locate key information about everyday contexts and routines from written, spoken and visual texts

  Elaborations

  • surveying classmates regarding their likes, interests, routines and activities, and tabulating the results, for example, in birthday charts or graphs
  • reading profiles and stories in print and digital form about people and animals, and creating a display with names and short descriptions
  • locating information relating to school activities in a country where the language is spoken for example, from a sister school, and comparing with own daily schedule/routine
  • identifying points of information in short spoken texts with some unfamiliar language, for example, some items on a recorded shopping list

  VCNRC021 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Informing

• VCNRC025

  Translate and interpret words, phrases and sentences used in familiar environments such as school and home, recognising how they may have similar or different meanings to words in English or other known languages

  Elaborations

  • playing matching games with word cards, for example, days of the week, months, seasons or vocabulary associated with weather
  • translating simple sentences, such as requests in the classroom, to understand the gist, noticing how meaning changes when translating into English
  • translating signs or phrases in familiar contexts into English, for example, street signs, addresses, food labels, noting that some signs and symbols are universal, for example, the ‘stop’ sign

  VCNRC025 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Translating

• VCNRC026

  Create simple bilingual resources for familiar audiences

  Elaborations

  • creating hand-made or digital greeting cards in both the language and English for different celebrations and traditions
  • creating bilingual texts for different audiences, for example, signs for the school community, a bilingual class digital dictionary, a word chart, a board game for a younger class
  • creating simple bilingual story books that include captions and images modelled on familiar texts, for example, Spot the Dog

  VCNRC026 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Translating

• VCNRC019

  Participate collaboratively in shared class experiences which involve planning and simple transactional exchanges

  Elaborations

  • preparing, rehearsing and performing an item for an audience, such as a school assembly, another class or parents
  • collaborating with peers on tasks, such as designing a poster for a significant event
  • following simple procedures and using modelled language for shared activities, such as making a simple dish from a recipe and naming ingredients, or following instructions in a craft activity
  • participating in a role play, for example, buying goods from a shop and using props to engage in conversation

  VCNRC019 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCNRC024

  Create and perform short spoken and written imaginative texts such as dialogues or collaborative stories, using formulaic expressions and modelled language

  Elaborations

  • creating and performing simple imaginative texts, using movement or drama to animate characters and to give expression to events in texts, for example, acting out scenes from a story, adopting the profile of a character, creating a dance to accompany songs
  • modifying texts such as songs, for example, by substituting words in a well-known song or tune
  • creating a new story such as a picture book using favourite characters from imaginative texts and adding captions using formulaic expressions and modelled language

  VCNRC024 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Creating

• VCNRC018

  Interact with peers and teacher to exchange personal information about everyday routines involving school and home environment

  Elaborations

  • asking and answering questions to exchange information about self and family
  • asking and sharing information about daily and classroom routines
  • using common responses for frequently asked comments or questions
  • exchanging simple correspondence such as notes, invitations or messages in print or digital form

  VCNRC018 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCNRC023

  Participate in shared imaginative activities and respond by acting out events, identifying favourite elements, and making simple statements about characters

  Elaborations

  • listening to, viewing and reading stories in a range of text types, and responding to questions about characters, themes and events
  • comparing a myth, legend or story to an Australian Dreaming story and highlighting the similarities and differences in characters, events and moral of the story
  • creating a timeline of the main events of a story using pictures, words and simple sentences
  • performing a scene from a myth, legend or story using simple, modelled language

  VCNRC023 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Creating

• VCNRC027

  Share own experiences of communicating in the language being studied, recognising how it involves behaviours as well as words

  Elaborations

  • identifying elements of the language and culture that feel different to own language and culture, including pronunciation of some sounds, gestures and facial expressions
  • discussing ways of communicating and their appropriateness in different language contexts
  • describing to peers what they are confident about when using the language, what they feel unsure of and what they most enjoy
  • discussing how Australian terms and expressions might be understood from a target-language speaker’s perspective, for example, ‘bushwalking’, ‘kick a footy’ or ‘lamington’

  VCNRC027 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCNRC022

  Convey information about self, others, home and school life, using simple statements and support materials such as photos, maps or charts

  Elaborations

  • creating print or digital texts to describe people, objects or their favourite pets/animals
  • creating a class profile from information collected from peers, for example, creating a chart or database to identify favourite sports, food or colours
  • presenting information on events or topics of possible interest to children of their own age in countries where the target language is spoken, using multimodal resources and authentic materials as support, such as menus, artefacts, brochures, maps
  • selecting information gained from print, visual and oral texts to design a digital display model or class book, for example, a class timetable or a map of their school

  VCNRC022 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Informing

• VCNRC028

  Interact with others, noticing how identity matters, such as use of terms of address, who and what is included and what language is used

  Elaborations

  • recognising how they communicate with each other, their family, teachers and other adults, identifying differences in behaviour and language and explaining why this happens
  • reflecting on the experience of becoming bilingual or multilingual, considering what advantages this brings and whether it impacts on identity
  • creating a digital profile of aspects of their identity, for example, family, background, interests, membership of the target language class
  • discussing which groups they belong to, for example, family, class, learners of the language being studied, and making connections and comparisons between own cultural perspectives and those of different cultural groups
  • interacting with teachers and other speakers of the language and class friends, and noticing aspects of speech, behaviour and actions that are the same as or different to their own

  VCNRC028 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCNRU029

  Identify, pronounce and write the alphabet letters, recognising sound–letter relationships in the language being studied

  Elaborations

  • identifying and pronouncing the sounds of the alphabet
  • practising letter clusters in common words or in names
  • beginning to recognise high-frequency words
  • applying appropriate punctuation marks such as full stop, comma, exclamation mark and question mark
  • using different strategies to remember new sounds, for example mnemonics

  VCNRU029 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCNRU031

  Recognise the linguistic features and structures of different texts used in familiar contexts

  Elaborations

  • identifying the main features of a short narrative, for example, a song, rhyme or poem, a simple description or procedure, for example, a recipe, or a conversation
  • noticing the differences between texts within the same mode, for example, a birthday card and an email, and between multimodal texts, for example, reading the lyrics of a song, and hearing it being sung, or reading a dialogue and acting it out
  • recognising how different textual elements combine to make meaning, for example, how the images, font, script and layout of different texts combine to create a whole advertisement, web-page, or picture book

  VCNRU031 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCNRU034

  Identify vocabulary, behaviours and expressions which reflect cultural values, beliefs and traditions to make connections between cultural practices and language use

  Elaborations

  • examining aspects of the authentic culture of the target language speakers
  • understanding concepts and values as expressed, for example, during festivals, birthdays and special occasions
  • recognising and explaining to others the significance of some cultural practices and events

  VCNRU034 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Role of language and culture

• VCNRU032

  Understand that the context and purpose of interactions influence language choices

  Elaborations

  • recognising the differences between formal and informal language in social interactions
  • examining culturally appropriate phrases for different purposes
  • recognising how the purpose of interaction, for example, command or invitation, can change the emphasis on words

  VCNRU032 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCNRU030

  Recognise and use elements of the language's grammar, such as word order, gender and singular/plural forms, to describe people, objects or events

  Elaborations

  • beginning to describe and explain features of the target language using metalanguage
  • creating simple sentences
  • experimenting with compound sentences
  • recognising the differences or similarities in word order in simple sentences
  • expressing negation in simple sentences
  • expanding number knowledge up to 100

  VCNRU030 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCNRU033

  Understand that languages may change over time and that they influence each other, recognising words in the language being studied that are derived from other languages

  Elaborations

  • recognising that the language has a history and has developed into what is the spoken language today
  • understanding that the language being studied may be spoken elsewhere in the diaspora of speakers of that language
  • noticing that languages are fluid and ever-evolving and can be incorporated into and influence other languages beyond their own

  VCNRU033 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCPSCSE016

  Identify and explore the expression of emotions in social situations and the impact on self and others

  Elaborations

  • exploring how you might feel when meeting new people
  • identifying behaviours which may influence the emotions of self and others, such as smiling
  • interpreting the possible emotions of others, by observing their body language

  VCPSCSE016 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions