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• VCEALC507

  Respond simply and show reaction to a text

  Elaborations

  • drawing characters from a story or illustrating a key idea
  • showing a personal response to a text, for example indicating enjoyment, agreement or disagreement

  VCEALC507 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC527

  Combine writing and drawing to create a short, simple text about a familiar topic

  Elaborations

  • drawing pictures with some detail of the participants, location and actions of an event
  • writing a short, simple text, such as a recount of a personal experience

  VCEALC527 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC184

  Read simple, familiar texts with assistance

  Elaborations

  • reading classroom signs, labels, words from classroom charts
  • reading aloud one sentence at a time from own writing
  • tracking words with a finger while listening to a simple text read aloud

  VCEALC184 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC591

  Write to communicate personal ideas

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of texts to communicate personal experiences and ideas, for example a personal recount or story
  • following the structure of model texts, such as the use of a greeting, sequence of events, reflection in an online journal

  VCEALC591 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC350

  Make and substantiate inferences and predictions when reading or listening to a text read aloud

  Elaborations

  • making connections between the text and own experience or other texts
  • matching images or names of emotions to characters and events in the text

  VCEALC350 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC244

  Understand the language of classroom routines

  Elaborations

  • understanding common classroom action verbs such as ‘sit’, ‘collect’, ‘pack up’
  • following simple task instructions by relying on key words or phrases in context
  • making simple requests and expressing needs, thoughts and opinions

  VCEALC244 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALL179

  Respond to key words in a range of familiar and common spoken instructions

  Elaborations

  • carrying out simple instructions, such as ‘Shut the door’
  • clarifying instructions before acting, for example by repeating key words (‘The door?’) or pointing

  VCEALL179 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL256

  Use a small range of descriptive language

  Elaborations

  • using a range of adjectives to express affect (‘frightened’, ‘surprised’), judgement (‘naughty’, ‘brave’) and appreciation (‘interesting’, ‘amazing’)
  • forming simple noun groups that combine one or two adjectives with a noun, for example ‘hot day’, ‘scary old house’
  • formulating short adverbial phrases, such as ‘on my bike’, ‘with his brother’, ‘every week’

  VCEALL256 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL416

  Use basic and some complex verb forms accurately

  Elaborations

  • applying verb tenses more consistently, for example using most common irregular past tenses, such as ‘came’, ‘gave’, ‘thought’, ‘said’
  • using correct subject–verb agreement with simple and some complex tenses, such as ‘I go’, ‘She goes’, ‘My cousin has come to visit’
  • forming multi-word negatives accurately, for example including auxiliary and modal verbs (‘He did not need to carry that’) or expressing more complex tense (‘She has not started yet’)

  VCEALL416 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL025

  Borrow key words from previous speaker

  Elaborations

  • borrowing key words from questions to compose answers, such as Student 1: ‘Do you want to play chasey?’, Student 2: ‘Yeah, play chasey’

  VCEALL025 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL293

  Reread familiar texts to increase accuracy and fluency and to enhance understanding

  Elaborations

  • repeating a sentence with corrected pronunciation and improved fluency

  VCEALL293 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL472

  Combine simple sentences using common conjunctions

  Elaborations

  • combining simple sentences using a range of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, for example ‘We need trees so we should not cut them all down’, ‘Riding motorbikes can be dangerous, but people still like to do it because it is exciting’

  VCEALL472 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL706

  Compare the structures of different texts

  Elaborations

  • comparing features of everyday or school texts on related topics, such as a report and a review
  • using annotations, tables or Venn diagrams to record and communicate comparisons

  VCEALL706 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL318

  Spell accurately common words encountered in the classroom

  Elaborations

  • spelling accurately high-frequency words and words learnt in class, such as ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘is’, ‘it’
  • using sound or visual features to spell new words, for example ‘evry’
  • referring to classroom charts and personal vocabulary lists to check or confirm spelling

  VCEALL318 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL047

  Identify repetitive words or phrases in known texts

  Elaborations

  • pointing to or counting repeated words in a text, for example ‘How many times can you see the word “me”?’
  • identifying characters or objects that are represented in both images and print text

  VCEALL047 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL107

  Identify key words and ideas from short, familiar spoken texts supported by context

  Elaborations

  • recognising familiar and learnt vocabulary in short spoken texts
  • understanding key information in short texts about a topic studied in class, and responding to questions, such as naming characters from a story, identifying an animal illustration based on a description
  • using contextual information, including images, word lists or print texts, to identify key words and ideas

  VCEALL107 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL103

  Use a small range of common verb forms accurately

  Elaborations

  • using some forms of the verbs ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ correctly, such as ‘Her name is Mia’
  • using correct verb endings, such as ‘–ing’, ‘–ed’, with some consistency
  • using a range of common verb tenses for familiar verbs, such as present simple tense (for example ‘walk’, ‘go’), present continuous tense (for example ‘is walking’, ‘is going’), regular and common irregular past tenses (for example ‘walked’, ‘went’)
  • understanding basic expressions of modality when listening, such as ‘want to’, ‘have to’, ‘should’
  • beginning to use basic modal verbs, such as ‘want to’, ‘have to’, ‘should’

  VCEALL103 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL712

  Identify thematic groupings of words in a text

  Elaborations

  • grouping or classifying words with the same topic, theme or function, such as ‘gravity’, ‘pull’, ‘force’
  • tracing word chains that refer to a particular idea in a text, for example ‘Junk food contains harmful additives. Salt can cause heart problems, while sugar is linked to diabetes’
  • organising related words to show their relationships, for example in a word cline, on a word map

  VCEALL712 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL447

  Apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships to deduce the pronunciation of new words

  Elaborations

  • sounding out new words using letter–sound patterns and individual letters
  • breaking words into syllables and phonemes to identify familiar letter patterns and read new words

  VCEALL447 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL049

  Recognise some letters of the alphabet

  Elaborations

  • recognising and naming some letters of the alphabet
  • identifying common letters in different words consistently, for example pointing to all the ‘t’s in a sentence
  • reading aloud the spelling of a word by naming the letters

  VCEALL049 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features