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• VCELT173

  Modify familiar texts

  Elaborations

  • changing familiar texts by innovating on elements of text structure, for example replacing rhyming words or substituting verbs with other verbs

  VCELT173 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• 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

• VCELT464

  Analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts

  Elaborations

  • using terms associated with literary text analysis (for example narrative, characters, poetry, figurative language, symbolism, soundtrack) when evaluating aspects that are valued and that contain aesthetic qualities
  • writing or speaking about how effectively the author constructed the text and engaged and sustained the reader’s/viewer’s/listener’s personal interest

  VCELT464 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCEALA119

  Participate in simple group activities based on shared texts

  Elaborations

  • reading a text in chorus or reciting familiar poems or rhymes
  • responding to the text, for example illustrating a section, answering questions about a text
  • joining group discussions by listening to peers and giving brief, relevant responses to questions

  VCEALA119 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC506

  Understand short, simple texts for a range of everyday purposes, relying on considerable contextual support

  Elaborations

  • reading short, previously learnt texts or memorised material, such as rhymes, songs, repetitive texts
  • joining in shared reading activities, such as group reading
  • drawing on supplementary information for support, such as illustrations or vocabulary lists, or asking questions of peers and teachers

  VCEALC506 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL646

  Identify some basic language features of texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying types of words in a text, for example rhyming words in a poem, causal connectives in an explanation
  • distinguishing between verb tenses used in different text types, such as the imperative in procedures and the past tense in recounts

  VCEALL646 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL341

  Use, in speech, vocabulary and structures learnt from spoken and written texts

  Elaborations

  • rehearsing and repeating memorable new terminology, for example the names of ingredients in a recipe or rhyming words from a poem
  • incorporating new vocabulary from written texts in conversations and presentations

  VCEALL341 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL181

  Understand pronunciation and some non-verbal features

  Elaborations

  • distinguishing between questions, instructions and statements based on intonation and contextual information, such as the actions of other students
  • imitating the teacher’s speech when reciting or chorusing stories, songs or rhymes

  VCEALL181 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA028

  Respond to different sounds and words used in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to people communicating and playing with words
  • being exposed to a variety of different rhymes, syllables and sounds
  • observing the connection between everyday words and objects
  • reacting to familiar voices and preferred sounds

  VCELA028 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | 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

• VCELT159

  Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images

  Elaborations

  • drawing, labelling and role playing representations of characters or events
  • reciting rhymes with actions
  • using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts

  VCELT159 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literature

• 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

• VCELA204

  Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words

  Elaborations

  • recognising words that start with a given sound, end with a given sound, have a given medial sound, rhyme with a given word
  • recognising and producing rhyming words
  • replacing sounds in spoken words, for example replace the ‘m’ in 'mat' with 'c' to form a new word 'cat', deleting the 'f' from 'farm' to form a new word 'arm', and substituting the 't' in 'pet' with 'n' to form a new word 'pen'
  • saying sounds in order for a given spoken word (for example f/i/sh, th/i/s)

  VCELA204 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCEALC378

  Write creative texts based on models provided or studied in class

  Elaborations

  • using language features of model texts, such as the rhyme and metre of poems, to compose own creative texts
  • following conventions of texts based on class models, such as character names and stage directions in a script
  • incorporating personal experience, ideas adapted from other texts, or imaginative details into creative texts

  VCEALC378 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL015

  Recognise familiar spoken texts

  Elaborations

  • recognising common functions of speech, such as questions, statements, commands
  • recognising a small number of familiar texts used frequently in class, such as songs, rhymes, stories
  • listening to and reproducing the sequence of ideas in a short spoken story or recount
  • recognising familiar words in spoken texts

  VCEALL015 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL110

  Identify and produce phonemes in blends or clusters at the beginning and end of syllables

  Elaborations

  • identifying and repeating rhyming words using phoneme blends, for example ‘share’ and ‘chair’; ‘mind’ and ‘find’
  • identifying words or syllables that contain the same phonemes, for example ‘bump’, ‘camp’
  • blending two or three phonemes together to make syllables, for example ‘b-oo-k’, ‘sh-ee-t’

  VCEALL110 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL027

  Imitate pronunciation, stress and intonation patterns

  Elaborations

  • imitating and rehearsing pronunciation, stress and intonation patterns used by the teacher and peers, such as in stories, songs, rhymes
  • developing accurate pronunciation, stress and intonation for a small range of familiar and commonly used words and phrases, including personal language, classroom language, social formulas

  VCEALL027 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• 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

• English | English: Learning in English

  Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills across the strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Each strand contributes its own distinctive goals, body of knowledge, history of ideas and interests to the study of English. 

  Learning about and using language

  In the Language...

  Overview material | English

• 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