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• English: Level A achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level A, students react to a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They respond to images of familiar people, objects or events. They fleetingly maintain eye contact with a person or object. They enjoy reading material as it is being read/experienced...

  Level description | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level A achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and react to some familiar objects, people, words and sounds within the environment by turning head, looking, reaching out and/or vocalising. They respond to their name and to familiar items when named. Students show an interest in others and an awareness of everyday social...

  Level description | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level A achievement standards - Writing

  When experiencing coactive writing activities, students make choices between objects and images and accept and reject objects and activities. Students develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and they move their hands in response to tactile stimuli. Students can demonstrate their...

  Level description | English | Level A | Writing

• English: Level A description

  In Level A, students begin to engage, participate and receive communication with known adults, teachers and peers. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events....

  Level description | English

• VCELA024

  Use sounds and facial expressions to affect familiar others

  Elaborations

  • encountering various languages and forms of communication at home, school and in the community
  • experiencing others engaging, communicating and changing things in the world around them
  • reacting to the sounds and voices of familiar others
  • reacting to a range of gestures, signs, images and facial features of familiar others
  • using sounds, noises, gestures, eye gaze etc. to gain attention or request an object, e.g. reaching towards something they want
  • turning towards a communication partner

  VCELA024 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA017

  Experience people writing, speaking and communicating using various modes

  Elaborations

  • experiencing speech being broken down into different sounds
  • reacting to interactive and multimodal texts
  • exploring a range of sounds and movements, including facial expression and gesture

  VCELA017 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA025

  Respond to a familiar person and engage with them

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to individuals interpreting their actions and sounds
  • experiencing people reacting and engaging with each other and them
  • learning to control their behaviour, e.g. moving, making sounds,
  • making eye contact, sound or gesture towards a familiar other during a communicative process
  • gaining another’s attention through sounds and or action
  • communicating physical need, for example hungry or tired through sounds and/or action

  VCELA025 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA028

  Respond to different sounds and words used in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to people communicating and playing with words
  • being exposed to a variety of different rhymes, syllables and sounds
  • observing the connection between everyday words and objects
  • reacting to familiar voices and preferred sounds

  VCELA028 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA001

  Encounter various forms of texts and respond to sounds, text, symbols, images or objects in their environment

  Elaborations

  • experiencing various text forms and communication related to the environment or activity
  • experiencing texts and forms of communication being labelled, e.g. this is a fairy story, hello what did you want to say? Oh I think Amy wants a turn etc.
  • reacting to different forms of communication by familiar people, for example a smile, a wave
  • reacting to change in the environment associated with a text type, e.g. turns head or looks towards a multimodal text, images, sound, word such as their name

  VCELA001 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• VCELA004

  Respond to words and groups of words and objects in texts and in the environment

  Elaborations

  • encountering words, images and written texts within their environment
  • reacting to texts in various modes within the environment
  • reacting to key words and familiar images

  VCELA004 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA007

  React to preferred sounds

  Elaborations

  • encountering words, objects, images and sounds being used and linked
  • attempting to make sounds and noises to gain attention and develop interactions

  VCELA007 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA029

  Encounter words being isolated into onset and rime

  Elaborations

  • reacting to preferred sounds
  • experiencing words that have their onset identified
  • experiencing words with the same onset or rime being linked through word play, stories and songs

  VCELA029 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA003

  Experience sentences being used to express ideas and information and responds to different words, sounds and noise

  Elaborations

  • experiencing sentences being communicated in different modes to express ideas, e.g. words, keywords, visuals, or sign
  • turning attention towards the spoken word of a familiar other
  • exploring how noises stop and start and can be long or short
  • tracking images, actions and objects moving horizontally and vertically

  VCELA003 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA027

  Respond to vocabulary used in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to vocabulary used by others to communicate for various purposes
  • being exposed to people labelling their behaviour and its purpose
  • building vocabulary in response to others’ labelling of their activities and actions during everyday experiences
  • reacting to familiar actions, sounds and voices, for example, a familiar adult’s voice, wave or smile

  VCELA027 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language