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• VCELT045

  Recognise a familiar event or character during shared reading or viewing of text

  Elaborations

  • identifying some familiar images and shapes within a text
  • engaging with the features of shared texts, such as images, sounds and actions

  VCELT045 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT066

  Respond to familiar images or sounds during shared reading/viewing of texts

  Elaborations

  • scanning and indicating preferred image
  • recognising a familiar face or voice during a shared reading

  VCELT066 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT101

  Identify a favourite character or event within a story

  Elaborations

  • learning to link an event within a text to a feeling, for example happy, sad, angry
  • identifying a favourite image within a preferred text

  VCELT101 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT102

  Repeat and follow rhythms and sound patterns in familiar rhymes and songs from a range of cultures

  Elaborations

  • learning the key actions of everyday songs and rhymes
  • exploring the use of percussion instruments to react to the rhythm of a text

  VCELT102 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT124

  Retell familiar text or event by sequencing images and simple statements

  Elaborations

  • identifying key images of a story
  • using two to three images in sequence to retell an event or familiar text

  VCELT124 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Literature

• VCELT115

  Identify the characters, events and setting in a literary text

  Elaborations

  • recognising a familiar setting or event in a known text
  • recognising similar objects and events across texts
  • discussing setting and characters within the text

  VCELT115 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT010

  Experience texts with different features, events and characters and respond to different literary texts

  Elaborations

  • experiencing to multimodal texts and experiences
  • exploring and listening to texts with various themes, features and characters
  • reacting to some elements within a multimodal text, such as sound, texture, images, actions, music, character

  VCELT010 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT044

  Attend to features of literary texts such as images, rhyme and refrains

  Elaborations

  • listening and responding to repeated chants, rhymes and refrains in familiar literary texts, for example clapping along with the beat
  • exploring words and sentence starters in different literature during shared reading experiences, for example ‘Once upon a time …’

  VCELT044 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT114

  Know some characteristics and features of literary texts, such as characters, beginning and ending in stories and rhyme in poetry

  Elaborations

  • knowing that there are different types of literary texts, for example story, poetry

  VCELT114 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT205

  Discuss how authors create characters using language and images

  Elaborations

  • identifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts, and how spiritual beings are represented in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories
  • identifying some features of characters and how particular words and images convey qualities of their nature, for example some characters are portrayed as shy, others adventurous
  • discussing the characters of fictional animals and how they relate to those of humans

  VCELT205 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT240

  Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created

  Elaborations

  • exploring iconography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
  • recognising recurring characters, settings and themes in Dreaming stories experienced through texts, films and online sources
  • discussing moral and teaching stories from varied cultures, identifying and comparing their central messages

  VCELT240 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT148

  Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences

  Elaborations

  • recognising that there are storytellers in all cultures
  • viewing stories by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers from online sources
  • comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own
  • engaging with texts that reflect the social and cultural groups to which students belong

  VCELT148 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT208

  Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts

  Elaborations

  • examining different types of literature including traditional tales, humorous stories and poetry
  • discussing similarities and differences between texts ( for example features of main characters in different stories)
  • discussing features of book settings including time (year, season) and place (country or city, realistic or imagined)
  • discussing how plots develop including: beginnings (orientation), how the problem (complication) is introduced and solved (resolution)

  VCELT208 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT150

  Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text

  Elaborations

  • identifying some features of culture related to characters and events in literary texts, for example dress, food and daily routines
  • listening, responding to and joining in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs

  VCELT150 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT241

  Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences

  Elaborations

  • describing features of texts from different cultures including recurring language patterns, style of illustrations, elements of humour or drama, and identifying the features which give rise to their personal preferences
  • connecting the feelings and behaviours of animals in anthropomorphic stories with human emotions and relationships
  • drawing, writing and using digital technologies to capture and communicate favourite characters and events

  VCELT241 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT242

  Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts

  Elaborations

  • discussing each others’ preferences for stories set in familiar or unfamiliar worlds, or about people whose lives are like or unlike their own

  VCELT242 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT170

  Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators

  Elaborations

  • talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories
  • engaging with the humour in some stories and repeating favourite lines, jokes and ideas
  • returning to preferred texts and commenting on reasons for selection

  VCELT170 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT207

  Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences

  Elaborations

  • discussing characters from books and films and whether these are life-like or imaginary (for example talking animals)
  • comparing characters and events in texts to own experiences

  VCELT207 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT172

  Replicate the rhythms and sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs and poems from a range of cultures

  Elaborations

  • using music and actions to enhance appreciation of rhymes, poems, chants and songs
  • reciting rhymes with actions

  VCELT172 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT171

  Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts

  Elaborations

  • talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories
  • using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences
  • talking about people, events and ideas in texts to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted

  VCELT171 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literature