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• 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

• VCEALL133

  Recognise that full stops and question marks separate text

  Elaborations

  • using punctuation to identify whether a sentence is a statement or question
  • pausing appropriately at full stops when reading
  • using a rising intonation when reading a question

  VCEALL133 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL099

  Recognise questions or statements through word order and vocabulary, as well as through intonation

  Elaborations

  • distinguishing between questions and statements based on intonation
  • recognising common forms of statements, for example ‘I am …’, ‘This is …’
  • recognising ‘Who’, ‘When’, ‘Where’, ‘How’ and ‘Why’ question forms
  • recognising a range of different question openers, such as ‘Do you ...?’, ‘Can anybody …?’, ‘Is it …?’

  VCEALL099 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA091

  Initiate and maintain simple conversations with others

  Elaborations

  • understanding and responding to simple English expressions related to personal or familiar topics, for example answering simple questions by giving basic information about self
  • borrowing words from questions asked, for example ‘What is your hobby?’, ‘My hobby is …’
  • negotiating meaning through use of gestures, modified speech, simple questions and clarifications
  • initiating exchanges in social and learning context, for example by asking a question

  VCEALA091 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA117

  Understand that the purpose of a text is reflected in its form

  Elaborations

  • identifying texts as factual or fictional, and comparing features such as content, layout, images
  • suggesting the purpose and audience of a range of common text types, such as picture book, supermarket catalogue, website, timetable
  • answering simple questions about the text, such as ‘Would this text be more useful for a parent or a child?’

  VCEALA117 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL125

  Understand and use a small range of metalanguage for elements of texts

  Elaborations

  • understanding terminology such as ‘author’, ‘title’, ‘letter’, ‘word’, ‘sentence’
  • locating and labelling features of a text, such as author, heading, diagram, blurb
  • identifying features of a text in answer to questions, for example ‘Who is the author of this book?’, ‘Where can we find the contents page?’

  VCEALL125 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC084

  Respond appropriately in a range of common social and classroom situations

  Elaborations

  • responding with short extended responses including answering questions, adding to other speakers’ points, giving personal opinions
  • expressing ideas, humour and simple opinions, and describing feelings, for example ‘I am very happy’
  • giving a short presentation to a group on a familiar topic, such as sharing or recounting a personal experience
  • borrowing key topic words and question structures to help formulate responses

  VCEALC084 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC113

  Understand information in texts read and viewed in class

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating understanding of simple factual or fictional texts by performing a task, such as following written instructions to plant a seed in a pot, dramatising or drawing parts of a story
  • answering simple questions, indicating true/false statements or sequencing information from a text
  • matching phrases and sentences from the text to images or diagrams showing the same ideas
  • obtaining information from simple diagrams or graphs
  • demonstrating understanding of new texts and responding to them, for example reading along with repetitive sections or predicting what comes next

  VCEALC113 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL123

  Identify and compare differences in text genres

  Elaborations

  • accessing a range of text types, including recount, report, procedure, narrative, poem, song, slideshow, web page, podcast
  • identifying the topic and structure of a text based on its layout and visual appearance, for example use of headings or images
  • answering questions about text purpose and organisation, for example ‘Which text tells us how to do something?’, ‘Which texts use headings?’
  • matching labels to sections of a learnt text type

  VCEALL123 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level A2 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  At Level A2 students read and respond to a wide range of familiar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including visual, multimodal or interactive texts.

  Students predict, ask questions, retell and talk about texts read and viewed in class. With support, they read a range of...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing

• 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

• VCEALL102

  Apply some grammatical rules but may overgeneralise for irregular forms

  Elaborations

  • expressing simple questions mostly accurately, including ‘wh–’ questions such as ‘Where did you live before?’ or yes/no questions such as ‘Is that my book?’
  • expressing statements and commands mostly accurately, such as ‘She went home’, ‘Please give it to me’
  • using correct verb and noun endings with some consistency, such as ‘–ing’, ‘–ed’, ‘–s’
  • overgeneralising some rules, such as formation of plurals (for example ‘mouses’) and past tenses (for example ‘swimmed’, ‘buyed’)
  • understanding some common phrases or clauses in both their full and contracted forms, such as ‘I’m’ and ‘I am’; ‘you’re’ and ‘you are’

  VCEALL102 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL100

  Combine known formulas, structures and other vocabulary to communicate

  Elaborations

  • creating original utterances by using new words with known sentence structures, for example ‘Yesterday I went to the swim’
  • using a range of question beginnings, such as ‘Who’, ‘Where’, ‘How’, ‘Why’, ‘Do you …?’, ‘Can I …?’

  VCEALL100 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL101

  Construct a small range of sentence forms

  Elaborations

  • constructing positive and negative statements using subject plus verb, for example ‘I finished’, ‘The bus didn’t come’
  • beginning questions with question words such as ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘When’, ‘How’
  • beginning commands with an imperative verb, for example ‘Come over here’, ‘Bring that’
  • constructing subject–verb-–object sentences with accuracy
  • giving some additional detail using short noun groups or adjectival phrases, such as ‘He gave me a new book’, ‘I ran really fast’

  VCEALL101 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL107

  Identify key words and ideas from short, familiar spoken texts supported by context

  Elaborations

  • recognising familiar and learnt vocabulary in short spoken texts
  • understanding key information in short texts about a topic studied in class, and responding to questions, such as naming characters from a story, identifying an animal illustration based on a description
  • using contextual information, including images, word lists or print texts, to identify key words and ideas

  VCEALL107 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA096

  Ask for translation of specific words from other home language speakers

  Elaborations

  • formulating questions in English and home language to clarify classroom instructions or new ideas and vocabulary
  • drawing on a range of shared languages to negotiate meaning and clarify information
  • understanding responses from peers that combine function words and topic words in home language and English
  • recording translations of new words in personal vocabulary lists, including words and definitions in English and home language

  VCEALA096 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL111

  Employ communicative strategies to enhance meaning

  Elaborations

  • developing accurate pronunciation and fluency based on modelling in a range of familiar interactions using personal language and classroom language
  • using stress or intonation appropriately in common utterances, for example using rising intonation when asking questions, stressing key words in short utterances
  • expressing emotions through intonation, for example surprise, frustration
  • using body language, facial expression and gesture to enhance the meaning of speech, for example nodding, pointing

  VCEALL111 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC087

  Understand key information in a short spoken or multimodal text

  Elaborations

  • identifying familiar words used in a spoken text, such as basic vocabulary, animal names, colours
  • understanding common sentence structures that make connections between ideas, for example ‘I like pets and having fun’
  • using questions to help identify relevant items of information, for example Student 1: ‘What colour was it?’ Student 2: ‘It was blue’
  • pointing to parts of pictures that are mentioned in the text or conversation
  • identifying key points of information from short spoken texts with reduced visual support
  • understanding key information after viewing digital and multimodal texts, such as age-appropriate television shows or movies
  • listening to a story and then retelling or sequencing the story using pictures

  VCEALC087 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication