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• VCEALL535

  Use basic conjunctions to connect ideas

  Elaborations

  • constructing basic compound sentences using common coordinating conjunctions (such as ‘and’, ‘but’), for example ‘I went to park and play soccer’
  • copying basic time or sequence connectives from a model text, for example ‘first’, ‘next’ or ‘lastly’

  VCEALL535 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCHHC004

  Explore objects from the past and present

  Elaborations

  • exploring significant objects of their past and present
  • viewing multimodal text that identifies them in the recent past and present
  • experiencing personal significant events in sequence through images and multimedia texts
  • viewing various videos, multimedia texts, stories, objects and images that identify objects of the present

  VCHHC004 | The Humanities | History | Level A | Historical Concepts and Skills | Continuity and change

• VCHHC018

  Assist to construct a narrative about a person or a shared past event

  Elaborations

  • assisting in jointly constructed narratives about own life and past events by selecting images, objects or sequence of events from a limited field
  • selecting images and objects to be used in personal texts about a past event or a significant person in their family
  • using a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response to confirm choices during jointly constructed narratives

  VCHHC018 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical significance

• VCHHK034

  Distinguish between events within the day and the past

  Elaborations

  • assisting to document the passing of time associated with daily routine activities, for example sequencing photos, creating an activity strip
  • select a picture of events that happened ‘today’ and ‘yesterday’
  • experiencing chronological terms such as ‘today’, ‘tomorrow’, ‘yesterday’, ‘finished’, ‘past’, ‘present’, ‘next’, ‘then’, ‘first’, ‘now’

  VCHHK034 | The Humanities | History | Level C | Historical Knowledge | Personal histories

• VCHPEM117

  Propose and apply movement concepts and strategies

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating defensive and offensive play in modified games
  • proposing and applying movement concepts and strategies to perform movement sequences at different levels using different types of equipment
  • proposing and applying movement concepts and strategies to safely traverse a natural environment

  VCHPEM117 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 5 and 6 | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEM135

  Practise, apply and transfer movement concepts and strategies

  Elaborations

  • examining and demonstrating the similarities of strategies used in different physical activities and how they can be transferred to new movement situations
  • exploring similarities in the bases of support and flow of movements when performing movement sequences
  • selecting previously successful strategies and applying the most appropriate when solving new movement challenges

  VCHPEM135 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEM051

  Participate in simple games with support and begin to anticipate the next step in familiar physical routines

  Elaborations

  • preparing for games and physical activities by collecting and dressing in appropriate clothing and safety gear
  • participating in games that require students to be aware of sequence, personal safety and game boundaries
  • participating in games from other cultures and for specific events
  • participating in games responding to stimuli

  VCHPEM051 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCITU129

  Analyse the features of a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, recognising grammatical structures, cohesion and coherence

  Elaborations

  • comparing procedural, recount and persuasive texts in Italian and English (for example, recipes, advertisements and weather reports) and describing their similarities and differences
  • understanding the elements that create coherence at a whole text level such as the use of cohesive devices, linked paragraphs and sequencing of ideas

  VCITU129 | Languages | Italian | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VC2M6A01

  recognise and use rules that generate visually growing patterns and number patterns involving rational numbers

  Elaborations

  • investigating patterns such as the number of tiles in a geometric pattern, or the number of dots or other shapes in successive repeats of a strip or border pattern, looking for patterns in the way the numbers increase or decrease
  • using a calculator or spreadsheet to experiment with number patterns that result from multiplying or dividing; for example, 1 ÷ 9, 2 ÷ 9, 3 ÷ 9 …, 210 × 11, 211 × 11, 212 × 11 …, 111 × 11, 222 × 11, 333 × 11 …, or 100 ÷ 99, 101 ÷ 99, 102 ÷ 99 …
  • creating an extended number sequence that represents an additive pattern using decimals; for example, representing the additive pattern formed as students pay their $2.50 for an incursion as 2.50, 5.00, 7.50, 10.00, 12.50, 15.00, 17.50 …
  • investigating the number of regions created by successive folds of a sheet of paper (one fold, 2 regions; 2 folds, 4 regions; 3 folds, 8 regions) and describing the pattern using everyday language
  • creating a pattern sequence with materials, writing the associated number sequence and then describing the sequence with a rule so someone else can replicate it with different materials; for example, using matchsticks or toothpicks to create a growing pattern of triangles using 3 for one triangle, 5 for 2 triangles and 7 for 3 triangles and describing the pattern as ‘Multiply the number of triangles by 2 and then add one for the extra toothpick in the first triangle’

  VC2M6A01 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 6 | Algebra

• VCMMG028

  Recognise and participate in familiar events that happen on a daily basis

  Elaborations

  • recognising the sequence of familiar events, for example ‘first and then’, with the support of picture-based schedules
  • understanding and using environmental cues such as equipment, staff and location to predict and identify activities
  • assisting in the construction of visual timetable for the class
  • responding to the signal from a timer to indicate the end of an activity

  VCMMG028 | Mathematics | Level B | Measurement and Geometry | Using units of measurement

• VCMNA072

  Compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning

  Elaborations

  • comparing and ordering items of like and unlike characteristics using the words ‘more’, ‘less’, ‘same as’ and ‘not the same as’ and giving reasons for these answers
  • understanding and using terms such as ‘first’ and ‘second’ to indicate ordinal position in a sequence.
  • using objects which are personally and culturally relevant to students

  VCMNA072 | Mathematics | Foundation Level | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCMNA055

  Compare, order and make comparisons between two collections, according to their quantity, using numbers initially to five

  Elaborations

  • comparing and ordering collections using the appropriate language and number name
  • comparing and communicating about characteristics of groups, for example sequencing objects in a group from smallest to largest; indicating the larger/smaller group through gesture, verbally or augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

  VCMNA055 | Mathematics | Level D | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCRAC007

  Use familiar words, phrases and patterns to create captions and participate in shared performances and games

  Elaborations

  • creating students' version of a story by sequencing a series of pictures with captions or by creating a storyboard with labels using modelled language
  • creating a new part of a text such as changing a character or adding an extra verse in a song by, for example, matching pictures and captions
  • making a big book based on an event, experience or shared text

  VCRAC007 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Creating

• VCADAP019

  Use simple technical and expressive skills when presenting dance that communicates ideas to an audience

  Elaborations

  • presenting a learned sequence of movements to the class, teachers or parents, for example, a sequence the class has developed in response to a stimulus such as an image or a story
  • communicating ideas and feelings to an audience, for example, by stamping heavily or tip-toeing lightly, or using movement qualities such as slow, controlled sinking
  • using questions to explore how ideas are interpreted and presented in performance, for example, how were ideas communicated in their dance, or how would they describe the theme or ideas other students are communicating in their dance?
  • using expressive skills to engage the audience, for example, looking out to the audience and using facial expressions

  VCADAP019 | The Arts | Dance | Foundation Level | Present and Perform

• VCCCTQ012

  Investigate different techniques to sort facts and extend known ideas to generate novel and imaginative ideas

  Elaborations

  • using a table to compare observable features of living, non-living and once living things; creating a checklist of what makes something living; and using the table and checklist to imagine a new living creature
  • using a technique such as ‘SCAMPER’ to generate novel ideas for the use of particular objects, for example adapting an object originally intended for cooking to be a musical instrument
  • exploring the technique of breaking down a movement sequence into its smaller parts and then rethinking the combination of those parts when creating a new movement sequence
  • exploring strategies to determine the strength of rules to explain patterns of numbers or shapes

  VCCCTQ012 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Questions and Possibilities

• VC2MFN01

  name, represent and order numbers, including zero to at least 20, using physical and virtual materials and numerals

  Elaborations

  • responding to a request to collect a quantity of objects or reading a numeral and selecting the associated quantity of items from a collection to match the number required; for example, collecting 9 paintbrushes after hearing the word ‘nine’
  • recognising the order in the sequence of numbers to 20 and identifying the number that is ‘one less’ than a given number and the number that is ‘one more’; for example, playing instructive card games that involve reading and ordering number cards, or using counting songs, storybooks and rhymes to establish the forwards and backwards counting sequence of numbers in the context of active counting activities
  • understanding and using terms to indicate ordinal position in a sequence; for example, filling in the missing term in ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, … ‘fifth’ …, or creating a number track using cards with the numerals zero to 20 and describing positions using terms such as ‘first’, ‘last’, ‘before’, ‘after’ and ‘between’
  • recognising, writing and reading numerals written on familiar objects; for example, recognising and reading numerals in images, text or illustrations in storybooks, or writing a numeral on a container as a label to show how many objects it contains
  • connecting quantities to number names and numerals when reading and reciting stories and playing counting games or determining and reasoning about the size of sets of objects within Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ instructive games, for example, Segur etug from Mer Island in the Torres Strait region

  VC2MFN01 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Foundation Level | Number

• VCZHU092

  Identify and use the characteristics of Chinese word order and explain the use of Chinese-specific grammatical features

  Elaborations

  • analysing the variety of verb types found in Chinese — for example, adjectival verbs (高、大) and modal verbs (会、可以) — and the placement and use of adverbs, for example, 都 to indicate inclusion; 就 to indicate sequence
  • identifying the placement of time and place phrases; the use of conjunctions (for example, 和 to add information; 还是/或者 to offer or indicate choices); and the role of measure words, for example, 个、只
  • exploring the clauses of a sentence in Chinese and noticing how they are linked coherently, for example, 他叫王晓明，(他) 是我的朋友 (zero subject/pronoun)
  • explaining the concept of ‘tense’ across languages, for example, asking: What tense is used in English to share ideas about a future activity? Can you exemplify how future tense is used in English? How is future tense expressed in Chinese? (我明天去北京，下个星期去上海)
  • applying processes of discourse development by joining, contrasting and sequencing using 也、和、但是、就, and exploring the use of cohesive devices and ways of extending, sequencing and elaborating ideas, for example, through the use of connectives, conjunctions and subject pronouns

  VCZHU092 | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCADAD036

  Structure dances using choreographic devices and form

  Elaborations

  • selecting, combining, refining and sequencing movement using choreographic devices such as transitions, variation and contrast and choreographic forms such as binary, ternary and narrative
  • using questions to analyse the form and use of elements in a dance, for example, how elements of dance been used by the choreographer to express their stated intention, what choreographic devices are evident in the dance, what choreographic form has been used
  • analysing and evaluating structural choices made by documenting their process in a journal, blog or video recording, securing permissions as necessary
  • responding to feedback by changing aspects of the dance to enhance communication of ideas, for example, by changing the order and pattern of dance movement, phrases or sequences or by using choreographic devices
  • using collaborative planning, selection and evaluation process to structure group dances

  VCADAD036 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 7 and 8 | Dance Practices

• VCITC102

  Participate in listening to, reading and viewing imaginative texts and make connections with characters, events, actions, settings, and key ideas and messages

  Elaborations

  • describing characters (Chi? Com’è? Come fa?), events (Cosa succede? Quando?), settings (Dove?), and key ideas (Perché?), and establishing sequence, for example, prima … poi … dopo
  • listening to and reading stories, songs and poems, noticing aspects of meaning and style, for example, use of rhythm, rhyme, choice of key words
  • reinterpreting and performing stories and songs in spoken or written form, by retelling the sequence, reordering the events in a story, or creating an alternative representation or ending
  • comparing aspects of theatre across cultures, focusing on the purpose, origins and values

  VCITC102 | Languages | Italian | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Creating

• VCRAC040

  Engage with texts such as cartoons, dialogues and fairy tales, and respond by describing aspects such as characters and actions

  Elaborations

  • recalling and/or illustrating main characters and events in texts, or, responding to questions
  • conveying understanding of plot and sequence in texts, such as by re-creating the sequence using a storyboard, labelling key events or creating a timeline
  • discussing reactions to texts such as stories, television programs and songs that reflect the contemporary values of speakers of the language (such as how to respect parents, appreciate diversity or be a good friend)
  • discussing key messages in creative texts, such as the moral of a fable/story, an idea or value in a song, or a quality of a character
  • responding to a creative text by manipulating the original text to create a new version, for example, resequencing events, adding a new element, changing the location or creating an alternative ending
  • writing a review, using modelled language, of a song, story, comic or television program

  VCRAC040 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Creating