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• VCDSCD018

  Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and the technologies needed to realise designed solutions

  Elaborations

  • identifying, gathering and playing with materials, components, tools and equipment to generate personal design ideas, for example designing a greeting card for a friend
  • exploring opportunities around the school for designing solutions, for example how school play areas could be improved; how the school removes classroom waste and identifying opportunities to reduce, recycle and re-use materials; reviewing the school canteen menu to identify healthy food options and suggesting changes to promote good health
  • discussing possible designed solutions based on experience and some research, for example asking adults for advice
  • considering the importance of sustainability in designed solutions, for example comparing the durability of materials for a selected solution
  • exploring which tools, equipment and techniques to use with selected materials

  VCDSCD018 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Designed Solutions | Investigating

• VCEALA702

  Understand the relationship between text structures and social purposes of text types studied in class

  Elaborations

  • understanding a range of school texts, such as a practical report, a review, a research project
  • discussing the purpose of individual features of a text, for example headings in a pamphlet or images on a website
  • using modelled metalanguage to name and describe features of texts

  VCEALA702 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC590

  Write short factual texts on familiar content, consisting of simple sentences or statements approximating sentences

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of short school-based text types, for example description, instruction, procedure, narrative
  • following an appropriate structure for the text, using model texts or templates for support

  VCEALC590 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC735

  Participate in conversations with fluent speakers that involve changes of topic and register

  Elaborations

  • participating in conversations with a range of people such as peers, teachers and visitors
  • talking about a range of topics, such as personal stories or discussions about school
  • negotiating changes in register, for example changing from talking about a classroom topic to making a request

  VCEALC735 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC696

  Interpret and respond to accessible texts from across the curriculum

  Elaborations

  • reading and viewing in-school texts, including a range of factual and fictional text types, in print and digital formats
  • understanding background information associated with the content and text type, including the purpose and structure

  VCEALC696 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC633

  Locate specific information from subject-based diagrams, graphs and charts

  Elaborations

  • identifying a sentence that describes a graph or image, for example ‘More than half of the class walks to school’
  • using labels or captions to identify specific features on a diagram, illustration or map

  VCEALC633 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL642

  Identify different forms of texts

  Elaborations

  • understanding the basic structure of a range of texts used at school, such as narrative, information report, essay, poetry
  • identifying features of layout and content organisation in a text, such as title and chapter headings
  • labelling features of a text or sequencing parts

  VCEALL642 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL077

  Write new words with an initial letter or several letters

  Elaborations

  • representing words by their initial letter (such as ‘b’ for ‘book’) or by their beginning and ending sounds (such as ‘bk’ for ‘book’)
  • writing strings of letters that approximate the pronunciation of words, such as ‘scol’ for ‘school’, ‘fes’ for ‘face’

  VCEALL077 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL750

  Use a range of cohesive devices to extend and connect speech

  Elaborations

  • connecting multiple clauses using a range of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, for example ‘Because of the flooding, they could not access their house and had to evacuate to the school instead’
  • using pronoun references to maintain cohesion throughout an extended text

  VCEALL750 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• 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

• 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

• VCHHC005

  Experience narratives about a person or the past

  Elaborations

  • experiencing retellings of significant events within their community, family and school life through multisensory experiences and texts
  • experiencing the construction of a narrative about a recent significant event
  • viewing various text and representation of their family, life and significant events

  VCHHC005 | The Humanities | History | Level A | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical significance

• VCHHC016

  Explore peoples perspective to events within their daily life

  Elaborations

  • exploring events and the sequence of activities that occur during it
  • assist to create a class multi modal text about a school day or special event
  • experience different peoples stories, choices within and/ or preferences about a shared event

  VCHHC016 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical sources as evidence

• VCHPEP079

  Identify and explore natural and built environments in the local community where physical activity can take place

  Elaborations

  • recognising that physical activities can take place in a range of different environments, including natural, built and aquatic settings
  • participating in physical activities within the built structures in the school and local community where physical activity takes place

  VCHPEP079 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 1 and 2 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCJAC167

  Present information about events, experiences or topics of shared interest, using modes of presentation such as charts, diagrams or digital displays to suit different audiences and contexts

  Elaborations

  • using data collected from one another to analyse and communicate information about themselves, their interests and experiences to other Japanese speakers
  • researching a Japanese cultural event, such as ゆきまつり、おしょうがつ、花見(はなみ)、お月見(つきみ), and creating an informative multimodal text that communicates key elements of that event for other learners of Japanese
  • creating texts such as brochures, posters or website posts to inform others about upcoming events such as Languages Week, a Japanese-language performance or a school exchange visit
  • creating a video clip or a photographic or journal record of activities such as a school camp, excursion, performance or sporting event as a contribution to a school or community event
  • creating a virtual introduction to the school and neighbourhood for Japanese-speaking visitors

  VCJAC167 | Languages | Japanese | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Informing

• VCMSP323

  Investigate reports of surveys in digital media and elsewhere for information on how data were obtained to estimate population means and medians

  Elaborations

  • investigating a range of data and its sources. For example, the age of residents in Australia, Cambodia and Tonga, or the number of subjects studied at school by 14-year-old students in Australia, Japan and Timor-Leste

  VCMSP323 | Mathematics | Level 9 | Statistics and Probability | Chance

• VCASFC027

  Create bilingual versions of different types of texts, such as captioned recordings of Auslan phrases or classroom resources such as posters and digital displays

  Elaborations

  • creating captions in English for basic recorded signed texts, for example, a ‘welcome to the school’ video
  • creating bilingual texts for the classroom or school community, such as posters including signed images or digital library displays, and discussing how to represent meaning in different languages for different audiences
  • creating cards for use by younger children that contain pictures, labels and signs, for example, cards relating to different forms of transport
  • making their own bilingual picture dictionaries with English labels, images and simple descriptions of signs, identifying and categorising signs according to handshape

  VCASFC027 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Translating

• VCDTDI002

  React to patterns and different types of data and experience how data is sorted and represented as images using digital systems

  Elaborations

  • experiencing how their movements can create sounds and visual effects
  • using numeric data and displaying them as images, for example selecting and displaying photos of classmates who are present at school on a given day
  • experiencing the use of visual data, for example searching through a school-based digital photo library to select an image of themselves and significant people in their life
  • experiencing different types of data processing by digital systems, for example images, sound, text and numbers

  VCDTDI002 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Data and Information

• VCEALL309

  Sequence ideas simply, using short sentences or statements

  Elaborations

  • writing a series of short statements in time sequence, for example ‘I eat breakfast’, ‘I go to school’, ‘I read a book’
  • grouping together short sentences about the same topic, for example ‘Frogs are green’, ‘Frogs have big eyes’, ‘They eat insects’
  • using simple pronoun references to avoid repeating the subject in consecutive sentences, for example ‘Emma came to school early. She felt very tired’ and ‘Yesterday the class went … We went …’

  VCEALL309 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL073

  Write sentences or phrases that reflect own oral structures

  Elaborations

  • writing simple strings of words that approximate sentences, such as ‘Go to school’, ‘Go home’, ‘Come from’
  • using the most common coordinating conjunctions (‘and’, ‘but’) to connect clauses, sometimes writing run-on sentences, such as ‘At school teacher teach us and we work and we play’
  • writing with some errors in word order, such as ‘I saw a car blue’

  VCEALL073 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features