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• VCEALA041

  Recall or repeat familiar or favourite parts of a text using memory or home language resources

  Elaborations

  • identifying familiar settings, characters or events in stories
  • retelling events or describing characters from a story, or stating facts from an information text
  • answering simple questions about personal experience related to stories, for example ‘Have you ever …?’, ‘Do you like … too?’
  • translating parts of a familiar or favourite text to explain it to a family member or home language peer

  VCEALA041 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level A1 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  At Level A1 students communicate in basic English in routine, familiar, social and classroom situations. They follow and give simple instructions, exchange basic personal information, and negotiate well-known, predictable activities and contexts. They begin to modify their responses and manner...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening

• VCEALA067

  Use some home language words and words copied from various sources

  Elaborations

  • copying words from classroom resources such as labels, signs, word lists
  • writing in home language script or transliterating the sound of a home language word in English letters when the English word is unknown
  • asking home language peers or the teacher for the English translation and spelling of a home language word
  • explaining the meaning of a home language word when asked, for example by pointing, drawing, using known language

  VCEALA067 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness