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• English: Level B description

  In Level B, students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events. Students begin to understand that communication...

  Level description | English

• VCELA060

  Recognise ways to gain and maintain attention

  Elaborations

  • gaining the attention of others through gestures, facial expressions, sounds and movements
  • interacting with a familiar adult by attending and making eye contact for extended periods of time
  • refining their behaviour and actions based on the response of others (cause and effect)
  • developing a small repertoire of predictable and consistent responses

  VCELA060 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Language

• English: Level B achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level B, students will listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They can focus on an image during the sharing of a text. They select a text using visual images and request a text to be read. Students can recognise images of familiar...

  Level description | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing

• VCELA036

  Recognise that texts can have many forms, can use images, objects and symbols

  Elaborations

  • beginning to understand that multimodal texts may include symbols, images and objects
  • recognising some photographs, images and objects in a text

  VCELA036 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY056

  Make simple choices during shared construction of personalised multimodal text

  Elaborations

  • accepting and rejecting images and sounds to be used in multimodal text
  • refining grasp by handling and using a variety of writing medium

  VCELY056 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY049

  Attend to imaginative and informative texts including visual schedules in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • attending to familiar images and objects in texts
  • recognising some visual cues to complete an activity

  VCELY049 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA059

  Use sounds, gestures, images and facial expressions to communicate

  Elaborations

  • responding to their name and the names of familiar people
  • responding consistently to familiar contexts including people, places and objects
  • showing an understanding that sound and action convey meaning
  • contributing to small group discussions by sharing a favourite toy
  • gaining and directing attention, such as turning attention toward the person who is communicating
  • recognising some of the sounds, gestures and facial features of familiar people and contexts
  • reproducing part of a short message by pointing and/or using objects or pictures

  VCELA059 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Language

• English: Level B achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students look towards and attend to significant people for short periods of time. They attend to and respond to key word instructions. They imitate familiar words, spoken and/or signed. They use gesture or ‘yes’ or ‘no’ responses to answer a question or respond to an instruction. They communicate...

  Level description | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening

• VCELT044

  Attend to features of literary texts such as images, rhyme and refrains

  Elaborations

  • listening and responding to repeated chants, rhymes and refrains in familiar literary texts, for example clapping along with the beat
  • exploring words and sentence starters in different literature during shared reading experiences, for example ‘Once upon a time …’

  VCELT044 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT065

  Identify a preferred text

  Elaborations

  • engaging with various texts, including interactive stories
  • attending to elements within multimodal texts
  • participating in interactive stories, for example selecting text to be shared due to a particular story, character or theme or hitting a switch to turn a page

  VCELT065 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELY069

  Listen to and respond to simple instructions

  Elaborations

  • attending to a familiar speaker, song or story
  • listening and responding to a simple closed question and indicating a choice, for example indicating which equipment is wanted, selecting a switch or image to request help or an object
  • making relevant responses such as nod of head to indicate understanding when communicating or listening to instructions

  VCELY069 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Literacy