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• VCCCTM008

  Explore some learning strategies, including planning, repetition, rewording, memorisation and use of mnemonics

  Elaborations

  • composing a simple song or rhyme to assist learning new words, such as greetings in another language
  • practising an oral presentation by intentionally rehearsing small parts of the presentation often

  VCCCTM008 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Meta-Cognition

• VCNRU082

  Discuss the interrelationship between linguistic elements, context, purpose, audience and structure of a wide range of text types and identify how cultural elements are incorporated

  Elaborations

  • recognising main features of a range of text types in the language, for example, plays, songs, poetry, and discussing how they are used and how they add to the richness of the text
  • analysing texts, such as advertisements and magazine articles, and discussing linguistic and cultural elements
  • reading, viewing and listening to different texts in the language, paying attention to how messages can be expressed for different audiences and purposes, for example, reading messages on social media sites, emails, blogs
  • discussing language appropriate to particular text types, such as descriptive language in documentaries and persuasive language in advertisements
  • explaining form, features and purposes of texts, such as how they are organised in terms of layout, headings, sequencing of ideas and stylistic devices, for example, informative language in documentaries and persuasive language in advertisements

  VCNRU082 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCNRC041

  Create and perform imaginative texts such as stories, skits or rap, using familiar language

  Elaborations

  • producing short scripted plays with teacher support, to perform to class, younger students or the school community
  • creating and performing simple songs, rhymes and rap to teach vocabulary and word patterns to younger language classes
  • creating and using own texts, such as storyboards, digital stories, booklets or board games, based on characters, settings and events from a myth or commonly told story

  VCNRC041 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Creating

• VCNRU031

  Recognise the linguistic features and structures of different texts used in familiar contexts

  Elaborations

  • identifying the main features of a short narrative, for example, a song, rhyme or poem, a simple description or procedure, for example, a recipe, or a conversation
  • noticing the differences between texts within the same mode, for example, a birthday card and an email, and between multimodal texts, for example, reading the lyrics of a song, and hearing it being sung, or reading a dialogue and acting it out
  • recognising how different textual elements combine to make meaning, for example, how the images, font, script and layout of different texts combine to create a whole advertisement, web-page, or picture book

  VCNRU031 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language