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• 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

• VCELA235

  Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context

  Elaborations

  • exploring how terms of address are used to signal different kinds of relationships
  • exploring the differences between the language used when giving a presentation and when talking to friends
  • exploring culturally specific greetings and expressions of politeness

  VCELA235 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA237

  Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose

  Elaborations

  • interpreting new terminology drawing on prior knowledge, analogies and connections with known words

  VCELA237 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA198

  Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that many people may use sign systems to communicate with others

  Elaborations

  • recognising how and where signs and symbols are used and placed in students’ school and community
  • learning some signs in Auslan and finding out about ‘Hear a Book’ and Braille technologies for hearing and visually impaired people

  VCELA198 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA141

  Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes

  Elaborations

  • sharing experiences of different texts and discussing some differences
  • discussing the purpose of texts, for example ‘This text will tell a story’, ‘This text will give information’
  • repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases

  VCELA141 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA155

  Understand that some language in written texts is unlike everyday spoken language

  Elaborations

  • learning that written text in Standard Australian English has conventions about words, spaces between words, layout on the page and consistent spelling because it has to communicate when the speaker/writer is not present

  VCELA155 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Language

• VCELA165

  Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people

  Elaborations

  • learning that language varies according to the relationships between people, for example between parent and child, teacher and student, siblings, friends, shopkeepers and customers
  • learning that we use a different tone and style of language with different people
  • learning to ask relevant questions and to express requests and opinions in ways that suit different contexts

  VCELA165 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA176

  Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

  Elaborations

  • discussing and comparing the purposes of familiar texts drawn from local contexts and interests
  • becoming familiar with the typical stages of types of text including recount and procedure
  • using different types of texts, for example procedures (including recipes), and discussing the text structure

  VCELA176 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA234

  Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background

  Elaborations

  • identifying examples and features of different kinds of spoken, non-verbal, written and visual communication from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and from several Asian cultures within Australia, and associating those features with particular communities
  • recognising some phrases in the languages of the class and community, for example greetings and expressions of politeness

  VCELA234 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA144

  Recognise that texts are made up of words and groups of words that make meaning

  Elaborations

  • exploring spoken, written and multimodal texts and identifying elements, for example words and images

  VCELA144 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA189

  Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying patterns of vocabulary items in texts (for example class/subclass patterns, part/whole patterns, compare/contrast patterns, cause-and-effect patterns, word associations/collocation)
  • discussing different types of texts and identifying some characteristic features and elements (for example language patterns and repetition) in stories and poetry

  VCELA189 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• VCELA164

  Understand that English is one of many languages spoken in Australia and that different languages may be spoken by family, classmates and community

  Elaborations

  • learning that different languages exist; discussing the various languages encountered in the community and at school; acknowledging the home languages of students who speak another language, and valuing the ability to speak more than one language
  • recognising that some texts can include both Standard Australian English and elements of other languages including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages

  VCELA164 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA199

  Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication

  Elaborations

  • recognising the effect of words, symbols, gestures and body language on the way communications are received by others

  VCELA199 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA236

  Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things

  Elaborations

  • exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’
  • exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences
  • exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’

  VCELA236 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA202

  Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts

  Elaborations

  • learning forms of address for visitors and how to use language appropriately to ask directions and for information, for example on excursions

  VCELA202 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA180

  Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning

  Elaborations

  • talking about what is ‘real’ and what is imagined in texts, for example ‘This is the section about platypuses in the book about mammals’

  VCELA180 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language