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• VCELT080

  Recognise familiar texts which share the same character or similar topic or event

  Elaborations

  • learning that texts can share a similar theme or character
  • joining in the chant or rhyme during shared reading

  VCELT080 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY422

  Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to create, edit and publish texts imaginatively

  Elaborations

  • investigating how digital tools or software can enhance a text that was originally print-based

  VCELY422 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY329

  Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience

  Elaborations

  • using research from print and digital resources to gather and organise information for writing
  • selecting an appropriate text structure for the writing purpose and sequencing content according to that text structure, introducing the topic, and grouping related information in well-sequenced paragraphs with a concluding statement
  • using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to purpose and context
  • using paragraphs to present and sequence a text
  • using appropriate grammatical features, including more complex sentences and relevant verb tense, pronoun reference, adverb and noun groups/phrases for effective descriptions

  VCELY329 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELT462

  Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying and analysing ethical positions on a current issue debated in blogs or online discussion forums, including values and/or principles involved and the strengths and weaknesses of the position in the context of the issue

  VCELT462 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level C1 description

  The curriculum for Level C1 supports students to develop their communication skills both verbally and non-verbally. It provides a range of opportunities for students to interact with their peers. Through active participation in conversations, students learn about the ways to apply formulaic language...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level CL description

  The Level CL curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to participate in routine and familiar exchanges in English with their peers. The curriculum covers the practising of pronunciation...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• 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: Level D achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level D, students listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They identify the main character and event in an imaginative text. They use visual images to identify the key topic or theme within an informative text. They understand familiar...

  Level description | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing

• VCELA473

  Analyse how higher order concepts are developed in complex texts through language features including nominalisation, clause combinations, technicality and abstraction

  Elaborations

  • considering how nominalisation affects the way in which events are constructed and explained, making some information more explicit and other information less so
  • analysing how logical relations between ideas are built up by combining main with subordinate clauses indicating cause, result, manner, concession, condition, and so on (for example, ‘Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life (concession), Keats’ reputation grew substantially after his death’)
  • noting how technicality allows for efficient reference to shared knowledge, indicating growing expertise in the field (for example, ‘The Romantic poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes.’)
  • observing how abstraction allows for greater generalisation at a higher level (for example, ‘the political, religious, social and economic features of the society’ – which is an abstract noun group/phrase)

  VCELA473 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Language

• VCEALC003

  Negotiate simple social or learning activities

  Elaborations

  • observing peers and copying actions in response to instructions or in classroom activities
  • asking for attention or assistance from the teacher or a friend by asking directly, using intonation to signal requests or indicating non-understanding through speech or body language
  • understanding common vocabulary related to needs (such as ‘toilet’, ‘pencil’, ‘stop’) and constructing simple phrases with this vocabulary (such as ‘Go toilet?’, ‘This my pencil’, ‘Stop that!’)
  • using picture cards, classroom charts and objects to support communication, for example pointing to a picture

  VCEALC003 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALL416

  Use basic and some complex verb forms accurately

  Elaborations

  • applying verb tenses more consistently, for example using most common irregular past tenses, such as ‘came’, ‘gave’, ‘thought’, ‘said’
  • using correct subject–verb agreement with simple and some complex tenses, such as ‘I go’, ‘She goes’, ‘My cousin has come to visit’
  • forming multi-word negatives accurately, for example including auxiliary and modal verbs (‘He did not need to carry that’) or expressing more complex tense (‘She has not started yet’)

  VCEALL416 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA025

  Respond to a familiar person and engage with them

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to individuals interpreting their actions and sounds
  • experiencing people reacting and engaging with each other and them
  • learning to control their behaviour, e.g. moving, making sounds,
  • making eye contact, sound or gesture towards a familiar other during a communicative process
  • gaining another’s attention through sounds and or action
  • communicating physical need, for example hungry or tired through sounds and/or action

  VCELA025 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA335

  Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view

  Elaborations

  • recognising that a bare assertion (for example 'It's the best film this year') often needs to be tempered by: using the 'impersonal it' to distance oneself (for example 'It could be that it is the best film this year'); recruiting anonymous support (for example 'It is generally agreed that it is the best film this year.'); indicating a general source of the opinion (for example 'Most critics agree that it is the best film this year.'); specifying the source of the opinion (for example 'David and Margaret both agree that it is the best film this year') and reflecting on the effect of these different choices

  VCELA335 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELY152

  Read texts with familiar structures and features, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge

  Elaborations

  • navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word
  • reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation
  • attempting to work out unknown words by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
  • predicting what might happen on the basis of experience of this kind of text; at the sentence level predicting the meaning on the basis of syntax and word meaning

  VCELY152 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA340

  Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts

  Elaborations

  • observing how sequential events can be represented visually by a series of images, including comic strips, timelines, photo stories, procedure diagrams and flowcharts, life-cycle diagrams, and the flow of images in picture books
  • observing how concepts, information and relationships can be represented visually through such images as tables, maps, graphs, diagrams, and icons

  VCELA340 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA075

  Recognise the use of images to represent an event, object or idea

  Elaborations

  • exploring what information an image tells us
  • learning that words and images can be used to tell a story about an event
  • using images to represent a story or an event

  VCELA075 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | 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

• VCELA225

  Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists

  Elaborations

  • talking about how a comma can be used to separate two or more elements in a list, for example ‘At the museum they saw a tiger, a dinosaur and two snakes’

  VCELA225 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELY081

  Explore some familiar texts and images used in the community

  Elaborations

  • exploring the texts, images and objects associated with cultural events.
  • investigating different ways texts can express the same things in different contexts

  VCELY081 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA391

  Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts and communicating

  Elaborations

  • exploring languages and dialects through building webcam relationships with schools across Australia and Asia
  • investigating changes in word use and meaning over time and some of the reasons for these changes, for example the influence on spelling and vocabulary of new forms of communication like texting, emoticons and email

  VCELA391 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Speaking and Listening | Language