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• VCELA202

  Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts

  Elaborations

  • learning forms of address for visitors and how to use language appropriately to ask directions and for information, for example on excursions

  VCELA202 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA176

  Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

  Elaborations

  • discussing and comparing the purposes of familiar texts drawn from local contexts and interests
  • becoming familiar with the typical stages of types of text including recount and procedure
  • using different types of texts, for example procedures (including recipes), and discussing the text structure

  VCELA176 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA200

  Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands

  Elaborations

  • learning the difference between questions and statements, requests and commands
  • learning about different types of questions including closed and open questions and ‘where’, ‘what’, ‘who’ and ‘why’ questions

  VCELA200 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA177

  Understand concepts about print and screen, including how different types of texts are organised using page numbering, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, bars and links

  Elaborations

  • learning about how books and digital texts are organised including page numbers, table of contents, headings, images with captions and the use of scrolling to access digital texts

  VCELA177 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• English: Level 1 description

  In Level 1, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults and students from other classes.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to entertain and inform. These encompass traditional...

  Level description | English

• VCELA184

  Understand how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words, and that some high-frequency words have regular and irregular spelling components

  Elaborations

  • using strategies such as look-say-cover-write-check to learn an increasing number of high-frequency sight words recognised in texts, including words with regular spelling patterns such as 'them' and 'got' and irregular patterns such as 'one' and 'was'

  VCELA184 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• VCELY196

  Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters

  Elaborations

  • using correct posture and pencil grip
  • learning how each letter is constructed including where to start and the direction to follow
  • writing words legibly using unjoined print script of consistent size

  VCELY196 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELA189

  Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying patterns of vocabulary items in texts (for example class/subclass patterns, part/whole patterns, compare/contrast patterns, cause-and-effect patterns, word associations/collocation)
  • discussing different types of texts and identifying some characteristic features and elements (for example language patterns and repetition) in stories and poetry

  VCELA189 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• VCELA199

  Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication

  Elaborations

  • recognising the effect of words, symbols, gestures and body language on the way communications are received by others

  VCELA199 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• 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

• VCELA182

  Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns

  Elaborations

  • investigating one and two syllable words containing common consonant blends and vowel sounds, for example ‘tree’, ‘star’ and 'about', 'begin', identified in shared texts
  • learning an increasing number of high-frequency sight words recognised in shared texts and in texts being read independently (for example 'one', 'have', 'them', 'about')

  VCELA182 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA201

  Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions

  Elaborations

  • extending students’ vocabularies for the expression of feelings and emotions
  • considering how others might respond before expressing their views, and how students might respond to others’ views in civil and constructive ways

  VCELA201 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELT209

  Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme

  Elaborations

  • exploring performance poetry, chants and songs from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Asian cultures
  • listening to and performing simple haiku poems about familiar topics such as nature and the seasons

  VCELT209 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELY197

  Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs

  Elaborations

  • creating digital images and composing a story or information sequence on screen using images and captions
  • adding images to digital written communications such as emails with pictures of self, classmates or location

  VCELY197 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELA183

  Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound

  Elaborations

  • recognising that letters can have more than one sound (for example ‘u’ in ‘cut’, ‘put’, ‘use’ and a in ‘cat’, ‘father’, ‘any’)
  • recognising sounds that can be produced by different letters (for example the /s/ sound in ‘sat’, ‘cent’, ‘scene’)

  VCELA183 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA179

  Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

  Elaborations

  • talking about effective words that describe a place, person or event
  • learning how a sentence can be made more vivid by adding adjectives, adverbs and unusual verbs

  VCELA179 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | 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

• VCELA190

  Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands

  Elaborations

  • using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation when reading
  • reading texts and identifying different sentence-level punctuation
  • writing different types of sentences, for example statements and questions, and discussing appropriate punctuation

  VCELA190 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• VCELY187

  Read texts with familiar features and structures using developing phrasing, fluency, phonic, semantic, contextual, and grammatical knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, including prediction, monitoring meaning and rereading

  Elaborations

  • using contextual and semantic knowledge to make predictions about a text’s purpose and content
  • combining knowledge of context, meaning, grammar and phonics to decode text
  • recognising most high-frequency sight words when reading text
  • self-correcting when reading does not make sense, using pictures, context, meaning, phonics and grammatical knowledge
  • reading aloud with developing fluency and intonation

  VCELY187 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• English: Level 1 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to others when taking part in conversations using appropriate interaction skills. They listen for and reproduce letter patterns and letter clusters. Students understand how characters in texts are developed and give reasons for personal preferences. They can describe characters...

  Level description | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening