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• VCELA142

  Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, including directionality

  Elaborations

  • learning about print: direction of print and return sweep, spaces between words
  • learning that Standard Australian English in written texts is read from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and that direction of print may differ in other cultures, for example Japanese texts
  • learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts
  • learning about simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu

  VCELA142 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA157

  Understand that spoken sounds and words can be written and know how to write some high-frequency words and other familiar words including their name

  Elaborations

  • recognising the most common sound made by each letter of the alphabet, including consonants and short vowel sounds
  • writing consonant-vowel-consonant words by writing letters to represent the sounds in the spoken words
  • knowing that spoken words are written down by listening to the sounds heard in the word and then writing letters to represent those sounds

  VCELA157 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Language

• VCELA164

  Understand that English is one of many languages spoken in Australia and that different languages may be spoken by family, classmates and community

  Elaborations

  • learning that different languages exist; discussing the various languages encountered in the community and at school; acknowledging the home languages of students who speak another language, and valuing the ability to speak more than one language
  • recognising that some texts can include both Standard Australian English and elements of other languages including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages

  VCELA164 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELY174

  Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations using interaction skills, including listening, while others speak

  Elaborations

  • listening to, remembering and following simple instructions
  • sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps
  • listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question
  • participating in informal situations, for example play-based experiences which involve the imaginative use of spoken language
  • participating in class, group and pair discussions about shared experiences including shared texts
  • asking and answering questions to clarify understanding

  VCELY174 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELY163

  Construct texts using software including word processing programs

  Elaborations

  • using simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu

  VCELY163 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literacy

• VCELA166

  Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • recognising some of the ways we can use speech, gesture, writing and media to communicate feelings
  • recognising some of the ways emotions and feelings can be conveyed and influenced by visual representations, for example in advertising and animations

  VCELA166 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA155

  Understand that some language in written texts is unlike everyday spoken language

  Elaborations

  • learning that written text in Standard Australian English has conventions about words, spaces between words, layout on the page and consistent spelling because it has to communicate when the speaker/writer is not present

  VCELA155 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Language

• VCELT150

  Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text

  Elaborations

  • identifying some features of culture related to characters and events in literary texts, for example dress, food and daily routines
  • listening, responding to and joining in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs

  VCELT150 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELA141

  Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes

  Elaborations

  • sharing experiences of different texts and discussing some differences
  • discussing the purpose of texts, for example ‘This text will tell a story’, ‘This text will give information’
  • repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases

  VCELA141 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA167

  Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school

  Elaborations

  • engaging in multiple speaking and listening experiences to build vocabulary
  • discussing new vocabulary found in texts
  • bringing vocabulary from personal experiences, relating this to new experiences and building a vocabulary for thinking and talking about school topics

  VCELA167 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELY153

  Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

  Elaborations

  • talking about the meanings in texts listened to, viewed and read
  • visualising elements in a text (for example drawing an event or character from a text read aloud)
  • providing a simple, correctly-sequenced retelling of narrative texts
  • relating one or two key facts from informative texts
  • finding a key word in a text to answer a literal question
  • making links between events in a text and students’ own experiences
  • making an inference about a character's feelings
  • discussing and sequencing events in stories
  • drawing events in sequence, recognising that for some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories the sequence of events may be cyclical

  VCELY153 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELY162

  Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case

  Elaborations

  • adopting correct posture and pencil grip
  • learning to produce simple handwriting movements
  • following clear demonstrations of how to construct each letter (for example where to start; which direction to write)
  • learning to construct lower-case letters and to combine these into words
  • learning to construct some upper-case letters

  VCELY162 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literacy

• VCELT149

  Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts

  Elaborations

  • recognising cultural patterns of storytelling, for example ‘Once upon a time’, ‘A long, long time ago’, ‘Before the Dreamtime…’

  VCELT149 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELA156

  Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters and recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences

  Elaborations

  • pointing to the letters and the punctuation in a text
  • commenting on punctuation encountered in the everyday texts, for example ‘That’s the letter that starts my name’, ‘The name of my family and my town has a capital letter’

  VCELA156 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Language

• English: Foundation Level description

  In the Foundation level, 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 and view spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as some...

  Level description | English

• English: Foundation Level achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and use appropriate interaction skills to respond to others in a familiar environment. They can identify rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words. Students understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences. They identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar...

  Level description | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening

• English: Foundation Level achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of the Foundation level, students use questioning and monitoring strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there are different types of texts and that these can have similar characteristics. They identify...

  Level description | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing

• VCELA146

  Recognise all upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound that each letter represents

  Elaborations

  • recognising and saying the name and most common sound made by each upper and lower case letter of the alphabet, including consonants and short vowel sounds, such as /a/ in cat
  • using familiar and common letters in handwritten and digital communications

  VCELA146 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY160

  Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

  Elaborations

  • using image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and web-based texts
  • using speaking, writing and drawing to represent and communicate personal responses to ideas and events experienced through texts
  • creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts
  • using beginning concepts about print, sound–letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts

  VCELY160 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literacy