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• VCDSTS007

  Match familiar designed solutions to the personal needs they meet

  Elaborations

  • making a decision from a variety of options to meet a need, for example, matching kitchen utensils or garden tool to a specific use
  • selecting and using products for a specific need, for example, identifying ways to be shaded from the sun/be sunsafe
  • suggesting ideas about the use of a product and what need it meets, for example, what do you use scissors for?

  VCDSTS007 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level C | Technologies and Society

• VCDTCD009

  Follow, and with assistance, represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

  Elaborations

  • re-sequencing a known everyday activity using visual images or verbal cues
  • experimenting with very simple, visual step-by-step procedures to explore using a device or completing a task, for example printing a picture or starting a game
  • identifying sequences of instructions or events that are commonly experienced such as the sequence of traffic lights or instructions for making a sandwich
  • following two to three-step series of instructions to use a piece of hardware or software, for example locating a website by keying in its URL or inserting an image in a file

  VCDTCD009 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDTDI008

  Collect, sort and recognise simple patterns in data, and assist with the use of digital systems to represent data as pictures and symbols

  Elaborations

  • pairing identical objects from a small collection
  • copying a pattern associated with a familiar activity, for example repeating a movement pattern
  • matching, sorting and organising objects in practical situations
  • sorting objects and events based on easily identified characteristics and using digital systems to represent data, for example sorting objects based on colour or shape and creating a digital drawing
  • assisting to collect and sort data in a structured situation, for example questioning friends about their favourite animal or football team and selecting an image of the most popular response
  • assisting in using common software to present data creatively such as a slideshow, movie or sounds

  VCDTDI008 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Data and Information

• VCDTDS007

  Initiate some basic functions on common digital systems (hardware and software components) to meet a purpose

  Elaborations

  • developing motor skills to slide, double tap and beginning to use a mouse to activate or manipulate a game
  • using two switches for two functions
  • exploring various digital systems to operate a program, for example using a keyboard to type, a mouse or stylus to draw and using appropriate pressure to activate a key
  • using devices purposefully, for example scanning and selecting a program or adjusting the volume

  VCDTDS007 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Digital Systems

• VCELA086

  Know their written name (as a grapheme) and match the letters in their name

  Elaborations

  • matching letters that are the same
  • recognising that letters and numbers are different
  • learning to speak and communicate using simple sentence starters

  VCELA086 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA098

  Recognise the beginning sounds of familiar words

  Elaborations

  • matching images to objects
  • recognising objects or images that begin with the same or a similar sound
  • copying and imitating words and sounds using voice or alternative and augmentative communication

  VCELA098 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA096

  Recognise different ways to communicate needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • expressing needs, wants and feelings through language and communication
  • making requests through the use of words, photographs, pictures or alternative and augmentative communication

  VCELA096 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA087

  Use spoken words, sign or Augmentative Alternative Communication System to communicate and understand that images can be used to write and express ideas

  Elaborations

  • learning to use high-frequency images and words, for example the student’s own name, ‘stop’
  • using spoken words, articulating most of the sounds
  • learning that images/signs can be combined to make a word
  • listening to sounds and words and reproducing them using a personalised communication system

  VCELA087 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA088

  Know the beginning sounds (onset) of familiar words

  Elaborations

  • exploring sounds and how they are combined to make words
  • knowing how to copy/imitate words and sounds using voice or personalised communication system

  VCELA088 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA076

  Explore similarities and differences between letters by shape and size and match some letters with their name or sound

  Elaborations

  • tracing and exploring letter-like shapes and patterns
  • learning to identify the written form of their name

  VCELA076 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA072

  Know that successive pages or images in a book or on a screen present a story in sequence

  Elaborations

  • learning that images tell us about the text
  • recognising consistent characters in the images within a text
  • knowing that a book has a front, back and right way up
  • recognising and using the icons to 'turn' successive pages in a digital text

  VCELA072 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA075

  Recognise the use of images to represent an event, object or idea

  Elaborations

  • exploring what information an image tells us
  • learning that words and images can be used to tell a story about an event
  • using images to represent a story or an event

  VCELA075 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA099

  Identify the initial sound of a single syllable word

  Elaborations

  • breaking a word into its onset and rime
  • investigating words which share the same onset

  VCELA099 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA077

  Recognise different sounds and their connection to a word or image

  Elaborations

  • refining sound and word formation
  • identifying a familiar word which starts with this a given sound

  VCELA077 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA094

  Recognise that words, images and actions have the same meaning across environments

  Elaborations

  • recognising and communicating the label for everyday objects
  • showing some of the ways to maintain an interaction between self and others using verbal- vocal exchange, sign or augmentative and alternative communication
  • recognising and following simple multi-word directions

  VCELA094 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA095

  Recognise ways to greet and interact with familiar people

  Elaborations

  • greeting people, such as a grandparent, helper or teacher, differently according to their relationship, for example how they use their name or a particular form of greeting
  • using social aspects of listening and speaking
  • using appropriate combinations of words, signs, gestures, or assistive technologies and alternative and augmentative communication to signal greetings such as hello or goodbye

  VCELA095 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA085

  Know that symbols, words and images can communicate needs

  Elaborations

  • making choices through alternative and augmentative communication, sign, symbol and image selection
  • using language to make requests, greet people, convey basic information about themselves and others
  • using image and sentence strip to communicate a need for example I want… to assist in requesting an object
  • using symbols to label an image

  VCELA085 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA071

  Recognise that texts and communication can take various forms including multimodal and picture books

  Elaborations

  • investigating the relationship between symbols or images and objects, people and actions
  • recognising and participating in interactive stories

  VCELA071 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA073

  Recognise that a group of words can communicate a message

  Elaborations

  • learning to build on spoken sentence starters to communicate a need or want, for example ‘I want … a drink’
  • learning to combine words to convey a message, for example ‘Dad’s car’, ‘throw ball’

  VCELA073 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA074

  Know how to use the connection between the object, its name, image or sign

  Elaborations

  • learning to scan a collection of images and select one image to describe an object or action
  • matching 3D objects to an image, sign or spoken word, for example using an apple, an image and a word

  VCELA074 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language