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• VCEALC056

  Write simple sentences related to own experience or school context

  Elaborations

  • writing familiar words and strings of letters that approximate the pronunciation of words
  • completing sentences giving personal information, for example ‘My name is …’, ‘I have … people in my family’
  • recounting personal experiences in sequence using basic detail

  VCEALC056 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL076

  Write some high-frequency words related to personal experience and school context

  Elaborations

  • writing some high-frequency words accurately from memory, including own name and short words used regularly such as ‘it’, ‘my’, ‘we’
  • referring to classroom charts and personal vocabulary lists to check and confirm the spelling of high-frequency words
  • recording high-frequency words in a personal vocabulary list

  VCEALL076 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC006

  Follow simple instructions in familiar school routines by relying on key words and non-verbal communication and context

  Elaborations

  • identifying key words and phrases that refer to familiar objects in the classroom
  • recognising familiar action verbs in instructions, such as ‘Line up’, ‘Stand up’, ‘Sit down’
  • relying on contextual information, for example the teacher’s gestures, the actions of peers

  VCEALC006 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALL077

  Write new words with an initial letter or several letters

  Elaborations

  • representing words by their initial letter (such as ‘b’ for ‘book’) or by their beginning and ending sounds (such as ‘bk’ for ‘book’)
  • writing strings of letters that approximate the pronunciation of words, such as ‘scol’ for ‘school’, ‘fes’ for ‘face’

  VCEALL077 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL073

  Write sentences or phrases that reflect own oral structures

  Elaborations

  • writing simple strings of words that approximate sentences, such as ‘Go to school’, ‘Go home’, ‘Come from’
  • using the most common coordinating conjunctions (‘and’, ‘but’) to connect clauses, sometimes writing run-on sentences, such as ‘At school teacher teach us and we work and we play’
  • writing with some errors in word order, such as ‘I saw a car blue’

  VCEALL073 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL026

  Recognise and use words from lexical sets related to immediate communicative need, interest or experience

  Elaborations

  • use common words related to immediate needs, such as colours, numbers, days, family- and school-specific word sets
  • using a single word for a variety of purposes, for example using ‘book’ to mean ‘This is my book’, ‘Where is her book?’, ‘I’d like to borrow that book’
  • referring to classroom charts and personal vocabulary lists to identify, clarify and rehearse words
  • using a range of strategies to learn new words and phrases, such as private rehearsal, personal vocabulary lists, use in own speech and writing

  VCEALL026 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features