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• VCELA018

  React to familiar voices and preferred sounds

  Elaborations

  • encountering various noises, sounds and voices
  • being exposed to words, sounds and noises of different pitch, duration and timbre
  • responding to the connection between everyday words and objects

  VCELA018 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | 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

• VCELA062

  Recognise the connection between words, images, sounds and everyday objects

  Elaborations

  • recognising the words associated with classroom activities and actions
  • making choices as a way to explore the connection between an object and its spoken name, image or sign
  • making simple requests

  VCELA062 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA129

  Understand that people communicate in different ways

  Elaborations

  • knowing that people use different communication forms, such as image, voice, facial expressions or sign, to communicate the same intention, for example ‘stop’ as a sign, image or expression
  • recognising that people communicate in different ways
  • learning that English is the spoken language used at school
  • modifying the style (for example, volume, rate or intensity) of communication to suit familiar locations and contexts

  VCELA129 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA005

  Respond to images and words in texts

  Elaborations

  • experiencing sound, image and text used in print and screen
  • reacting to images and objects within their environment
  • attending to a preferred image or sound such as a photo or voice of a familiar adult
  • fixating on objects and tracking objects within texts

  VCELA005 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA015

  Respond to images, objects and the spoken word

  Elaborations

  • experiencing different text types, genres and modes
  • reacting to objects and sounds in their environment
  • noticing objects and sound in their environment
  • turning attention towards another person or action of another person
  • showing interest in photographs of familiar objects and people
  • observing objects being represented by an image or spoken words

  VCELA015 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA016

  React to different sounds, and words, and respond to visual text

  Elaborations

  • encountering various types of text, genre and modes and their structure and organisation
  • reacting to objects and events within the environment
  • exploring how sounds stop and start, and can be long or short
  • responding to familiar people and objects, for example acknowledgement by looking at, or reaching towards, a desired object

  VCELA016 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA037

  Recognise and attend to images in texts and on the screen

  Elaborations

  • learning about print and screen through adaptive personal text using a keyboard, a touchscreen or switches
  • learning how to use a book through observation of others reading, for example pick up, hold upright, turn pages and attend to the pictures
  • touching a switch, keyboard or touchscreen to cause something to happen
  • identifying repeated images and objects within a text

  VCELA037 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA133

  Identify the sounds within familiar words

  Elaborations

  • identifying the beginning sound of their own name, and in familiar everyday words
  • tapping out a beat to represent the syllables in two and three syllable words including their own name

  VCELA133 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | 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

• VCELA040

  Recognise familiar objects and images in stories and informative texts

  Elaborations

  • associating an image with a word, symbol or object
  • identifying and communicating the names of familiar objects and people in an image
  • scanning an image or texts for specific objects, word, sound or image

  VCELA040 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA132

  Use vocabulary in the form of short phrases for a variety of purposes such as to request an object, communicate a need, recount information, or express a feeling

  Elaborations

  • building the vocabulary to label personal interests, experiences and associated objects
  • building vocabulary and images used to label experiences at school including those associated with topics or themes of study

  VCELA132 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA026

  Explore how sound, facial expression and actions can cause a change

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to others interpreting their actions and labelling them as needs and feeling
  • exploring how they can change their behaviour
  • reacting to others through gestures, facial expressions, sounds and movements
  • changing their focus of engagement on seeing or feeling an object or person

  VCELA026 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA110

  Explore connection between words, objects and images in stories and informative texts

  Elaborations

  • learning that text can provide information about an image
  • understanding that words can be used to describe an image
  • learning that words and images can be used to tell a story about an event

  VCELA110 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA002

  Encounter books, print and digital texts and respond to images in the text

  Elaborations

  • experiencing texts in various modes and people communicating about their features
  • reacting to multimodal texts
  • experiencing different texts such as printed, multimedia and film
  • reacting to familiar people and objects in print and digital texts

  VCELA002 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA052

  Reproduce speech sounds to communicate basic wants and use images and objects to express their wants and ideas

  Elaborations

  • reproducing sounds and words heard within a story, for example ‘ch, ch, ch’
  • comparing sounds and how they are combined to make words and label objects
  • exploring sounds through sensory activities

  VCELA052 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Writing | Language

• VCELA130

  Know how to greet and maintain a short interaction with others

  Elaborations

  • intentionally conveying information during a communication exchange
  • changing volume based on the context, for example inside and outside
  • learning to recognise the space required when communicating with another person

  VCELA130 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA166

  Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • recognising some of the ways we can use speech, gesture, writing and media to communicate feelings
  • recognising some of the ways emotions and feelings can be conveyed and influenced by visual representations, for example in advertising and animations

  VCELA166 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language