At Level A1 students read and engage with a wide range of short, simple, repetitive texts, including shared recounts and fictional and everyday texts. These texts may be in print or visual form.
Students read in context some familiar words, phrases, numbers and signs. They complete simple...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing
Students working at Level B1 read short familiar texts, based on simple language structures and features, common vocabulary and familiar contexts. They retell simply, predict likely outcomes, sequence ideas, and complete basic comprehension activities. These texts may be print or digital, including...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing
At Level B1 students communicate verbally and non-verbally in routine social and classroom situations, understanding controlled English that is supported by its immediate context. They use formulas, well-rehearsed and common sentence patterns, and short, simple utterances to contribute relatively...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C2 students use simple but effective strategies for initiating communication and negotiating meaning. They communicate effectively in a range of familiar social and some basic academic contexts, experimenting with and adapting their developing English and cultural understanding. With...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C1 students read and comprehend a range of short, simple, familiar factual or fictional texts developed by the teacher. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students understand a range of basic print instructions...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C3 students demonstrate a basic understanding of the main ideas, issues or plot developments in a range of accessible texts from across the curriculum. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students demonstrate...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C3 students listen, question and respond successfully in a wide range of social and academic contexts. They demonstrate sufficient control of stress, rhythm and intonation to be understood in most contexts. They use appropriate non-verbal language, take account of purpose and audience...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening
At Level CL students communicate simply but effectively in English in familiar social and classroom contexts. They communicate using formulaic language; short, simple and well-rehearsed grammatical features; and adaptations of their emerging English repertoire. They use stress and intonation appropriately...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Speaking and Listening
At Level BL students read a wide range of familiar, short, simple, repetitive fictional and everyday texts, and complete basic structured activities based on them. These texts may be print or digital, including visual, multimodal and interactive.
Students retell a simple and familiar story...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL | Level BL | Reading and Viewing
At Level C1 students communicate simply but effectively in English in social and classroom contexts across the curriculum. They negotiate meaning and interact with others using formulaic language; short, simple and well-rehearsed grammatical features; and creative adaptations of their English...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level B2 students communicate and learn English in predictable social and learning situations, understanding some de-contextualised English and expressing simple messages in basic English. They negotiate simple transactions and ask and answer basic questions on familiar topics, using familiar...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening
At Level A1 students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through drawings, copied writing, dictated texts and their own basic writing, showing evidence of a developing understanding of the writing process. They contribute to shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Writing
At Level B3 students read for a range of purposes and identify main ideas and specific information in classroom texts. These texts may be print or digital, including visual, multimodal and interactive.
Students demonstrate understanding of the main storyline and most key information when...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing
At Level B3 students generally respond to and use the structures and features of English appropriately in an increasing variety of familiar formal and informal contexts. They demonstrate awareness of the register requirements of spoken English necessary for a variety of purposes. They understand...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening
At Level B1 students write and present simple texts for a variety of basic classroom and personal purposes. With support, they communicate familiar ideas, events and experiences, writing simple narratives, recounts, descriptions and reports. Students use some of the basic structures and features...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Writing
At Level C4 students compare and make judgments about different texts (such as texts on the same topic by different authors) and read a wide range of accessible and culturally appropriate texts from across the curriculum with a high degree of independence. These texts may be print or digital texts...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C4 students demonstrate greater autonomy and control over their use of English, combining their expanding vocabulary with the appropriate use of a wide range of complex grammatical features including modal verbs, passive voice and tenses. They demonstrate understanding of the ways that...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening
At Level BL students communicate simply but effectively in familiar, social and classroom contexts, using simple formulaic and some creative structures. They learn through English that is well supported by context. They contribute relatively complex ideas through simple English, and use simple...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL | Level BL | Speaking and Listening
At Level B2 students write for a range of purposes on familiar topics. They write simple, organised texts demonstrating a developing use of specific vocabulary and simple sentence structures. Their writing demonstrates an understanding of the purposes of common text types, and their structures...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Writing
At Level C2 students read and comprehend a range of short, familiar fictional and factual texts and, when well supported, some unfamiliar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students show some comprehension beyond...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing