By the end of Level 5, students explain how text structures assist in understanding the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings and events. They analyse and explain literal and implied information from a variety of texts...
Level description | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing
By the end of Level 6, students understand how to use knowledge of phonics when decoding familiar words and the technical or derived words in increasingly complex texts. They understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects and can analyse and explain how language features...
Level description | English | Level 6 | Reading and Viewing
By the end of Level 7, students understand how text structures can influence the complexity of a text and are dependent on audience, purpose and context. They demonstrate understanding of how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary affects meaning. They explain issues and ideas...
Level description | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing
Students listen to others’ views and respond appropriately using interaction skills. They understand how language features are used to link and sequence ideas. They understand how language can be used to express feelings and opinions on topics. They create a range of texts for familiar and...
Level description | English | Level 3 | Speaking and Listening
Students can collaborate, listen for key points in discussions and use the information to carry out tasks. They use language features to create coherence and add detail to their texts. They understand how to express an opinion based on information in a text. They create texts that show understanding...
Level description | English | Level 4 | Speaking and Listening
Students listen for and explain different perspectives in texts. They understand how the selection of a variety of language features can influence an audience. They understand how to draw on personal knowledge, textual analysis and other sources to express or challenge a point of view. They create...
Level description | English | Level 7 | Speaking and Listening
Students listen for ways texts position an audience. They understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. They understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the responses of others. In creating texts, students demonstrate...
Level description | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening
Students understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. They understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the responses of others. In creating texts students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images...
Level description | English | Level 9 | Writing
VCEALL202 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features
At Level A1 students read and engage with a wide range of short, simple, repetitive texts, including shared recounts and fictional and everyday texts. These texts may be in print or visual form.
Students read in context some familiar words, phrases, numbers and signs. They complete simple...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing
Students working at Level B1 read short familiar texts, based on simple language structures and features, common vocabulary and familiar contexts. They retell simply, predict likely outcomes, sequence ideas, and complete basic comprehension activities. These texts may be print or digital, including...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing
At Level B1 students communicate verbally and non-verbally in routine social and classroom situations, understanding controlled English that is supported by its immediate context. They use formulas, well-rehearsed and common sentence patterns, and short, simple utterances to contribute relatively...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C2 students use simple but effective strategies for initiating communication and negotiating meaning. They communicate effectively in a range of familiar social and some basic academic contexts, experimenting with and adapting their developing English and cultural understanding. With...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C1 students read and comprehend a range of short, simple, familiar factual or fictional texts developed by the teacher. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students understand a range of basic print instructions...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing
By the end of Level 3, students understand how content can be organised using different text structures depending on the purpose of the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary choices are used for different effects. They read texts that contain varied sentence structures...
Level description | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing
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
Students listen for and identify different emphases in texts, using that understanding to elaborate upon discussions. They understand how the selection of language features can be used for particular purposes and effects. They explain the effectiveness of language choices they use to influence...
Level description | English | Level 8 | Speaking and Listening
Students understand how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis. They show how specific details can be used to support a point of view. They explain how their choices of language features and images are used. They use banks of known words and the less familiar words they...
Level description | English | Level 6 | Writing
Students understand how the selection of language features can be used for particular purposes and effects. They explain the effectiveness of language choices they use to influence the audience. Through combining ideas, images and language features from other texts students show how ideas can...
Level description | English | Level 8 | Writing
VCEALL709 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features
