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• VCEALL158

  Use some punctuation consistently

  Elaborations

  • using a range of common punctuation, such as full stops, question marks, commas
  • starting sentences with a capital letter and ending with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
  • correcting capital letters and full stops when reviewing own or others’ writing

  VCEALL158 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL042

  Recognise and explore different types of texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying and engaging with print and visual texts
  • exploring a small range of simple text types such as recounts, narratives, information reports
  • navigating different types of texts, for example turning the pages of a book, clicking links on a website, finding points of interest on a map

  VCEALL042 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL180

  Use words from sets related to immediate communicative need, interest or experience

  Elaborations

  • recalling familiar words related to immediate needs, such as family, school, colours, numbers, days
  • referring to charts or vocabulary lists to select words required for communicative needs

  VCEALL180 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL584

  Use contextual cues to work out the literal meaning of unknown words in a simple text

  Elaborations

  • using information in the text, such as images or descriptions, to deduce meanings
  • using background or content knowledge to deduce meanings of words or phrases

  VCEALL584 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL070

  Show evidence of layout or planning in writing

  Elaborations

  • formatting pages consistently, for example writing the date and a heading, ruling a margin
  • planning for a range of text features, for example placing text appropriately on a page, leaving space for drawing

  VCEALL070 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL285

  Use knowledge of base words to read new forms

  Elaborations

  • attempting to read new forms of familiar words, and self-correcting using knowledge of base words and common morphemes, such as ‘walk, walked, walks’

  VCEALL285 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL051

  Recognise some common letters and letter patterns in words

  Elaborations

  • identifying common letters or letter patterns in words in letter charts, familiar books or other texts
  • locating particular letters, both lower-case and capital, in a short text when prompted
  • locating words containing the same letter patterns in a short text, for example words containing ‘ch’ or all the words with double letters

  VCEALL051 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL202

  Use basic terminology of reading

  Elaborations

  • understanding terminology such as ‘book’, ‘author’, ‘picture’, ‘word’

  VCEALL202 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL493

  Repeat short modelled utterances with understanding

  Elaborations

  • listening to and reproducing the sequence of ideas in a short spoken report or recount

  VCEALL493 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL364

  Read texts that contain compound and complex sentences

  Elaborations

  • reading a small range of factual and fictional texts
  • understanding common coordinating conjunctions (such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’) and subordinating conjunctions (such as ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘before’)

  VCEALL364 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL183

  Repeat or re-pronounce words or phrases, when prompted, if not understood

  Elaborations

  • attending to the listener’s body language and speech to determine whether own speech has been understood
  • attempting to re-pronounce words using different pronunciation

  VCEALL183 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL441

  Understand the cohesion of ideas between and within paragraphs

  Elaborations

  • locating the topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph, and finding the key words to identify the main idea
  • reordering sentences in a paragraph to follow a logical order of ideas and language
  • sequencing sentences using conjunctions of time (for example ‘then’, ‘next’, ‘first’, ‘after’) to make a cohesive paragraph
  • understanding items referred to by pronouns, and tracing these references through a text

  VCEALL441 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL502

  Repeat or re-pronounce words or phrases, when prompted, if not understood

  Elaborations

  • responding to feedback from the listener if speech has not been understood
  • attempting to re-pronounce words using different pronunciation

  VCEALL502 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL054

  Adopt the teacher’s intonation patterns when reading familiar texts

  Elaborations

  • listening to a teacher or peer read the text aloud, rehearsing and imitating pronunciation, intonation and emphasis
  • chorusing reading with the teacher and peers

  VCEALL054 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL255

  Use a small range of basic verb forms accurately

  Elaborations

  • matching simple verb tense to time words, such as ‘Yesterday we went …’, ‘Now we can eat lunch’, ‘Tomorrow we will go …’
  • maintaining consistent tense when describing events in the past, present and future, for example ‘I walked to his house and we played games’
  • using ‘no’ or ‘not’ with verbs, adjectives and nouns to express negative forms, such as ‘Not play’, ‘I no sad’, ‘Me no’

  VCEALL255 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL536

  Write sentences that reflect oral language with some examples of correct word order

  Elaborations

  • writing short, simple expressions to label personal drawings, reflecting an early stage of oral language development, such as ‘Live here’, ‘Go to play’
  • writing sentences with a level of detail that may not follow standard word order, such as ‘We went yesterday to the supermarket’, ‘My friend and me we see car blue’

  VCEALL536 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL689

  Construct a range of sentence types

  Elaborations

  • constructing statements, questions and commands with consistent accuracy
  • experimenting with tag endings on questions, for example ‘You didn’t tell him, did you?’, ‘It goes back here, doesn’t it?’

  VCEALL689 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL580

  Demonstrate awareness of basic sentence and question patterns

  Elaborations

  • ordering words and phrases to create grammatical and logical sentences and questions
  • pointing out the subject, verb and object in sentences such as ‘She bought some fruit’
  • identifying question words such as ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘why’

  VCEALL580 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL724

  Write cohesive texts for a range of purposes

  Elaborations

  • connecting ideas and information at the whole-text level, for example writing topic sentences to focus paragraphs, and to connect paragraphs to the introduction and conclusion
  • ordering ideas in a paragraph so that they follow a logical sequence, for example chronological order, most common to least common examples

  VCEALL724 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL756

  Use pronunciation, intonation, volume and stress to support meaning

  Elaborations

  • modelling intonation, volume, stress and pacing on the speech of others such as teachers, peers, performers or presenters
  • adjusting features of speech to support and convey meaning, such as modifying mood in storytelling or giving emphasis in persuasive speech
  • using intonation, volume and stress to emphasise an opinion or emotion, such as ‘That is NOT what happened’

  VCEALL756 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features