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• VCELT148

  Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences

  Elaborations

  • recognising that there are storytellers in all cultures
  • viewing stories by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers from online sources
  • comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own
  • engaging with texts that reflect the social and cultural groups to which students belong

  VCELT148 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELA018

  React to familiar voices and preferred sounds

  Elaborations

  • encountering various noises, sounds and voices
  • being exposed to words, sounds and noises of different pitch, duration and timbre
  • responding to the connection between everyday words and objects

  VCELA018 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA247

  Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation

  Elaborations

  • becoming familiar with the typical features of online texts, for example navigation bars and buttons, hyperlinks and sitemaps

  VCELA247 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA278

  Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout

  Elaborations

  • participating in online searches for information using navigation tools and discussing similarities and differences between print and digital information

  VCELA278 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY427

  Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content, including multimodal elements, to reflect a diversity of viewpoints, using voice and language conventions to suit different situations, modulating voice and incorporating elements for specific effects

  Elaborations

  • creating texts that express views and values other than own
  • researching subject matter on social issues and/or relationships and presenting ideas in particular ways to appeal to different audiences

  VCELY427 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELA178

  Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances

  Elaborations

  • knowing that, in terms of meaning, a basic sentence or clause represents: a happening or a state (verb), who or what is involved (noun group/phrase), and the surrounding circumstances (adverb group/phrase)
  • understanding that a simple sentence expresses a single idea, represented grammatically by a single independent clause (for example 'A kangaroo is a mammal. A mammal suckles its young')

  VCELA178 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY175

  Deliver short oral presentations to peers, using appropriate voice levels, articulation, body language, gestures and eye contact

  Elaborations

  • sharing a personal experience, interest or discovery with peers in a semi-formal situation
  • using visual cues to practise staying on topic

  VCELY175 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELY211

  Make short presentations, speaking clearly and using appropriate voice and pace, and using some introduced text structures and language

  Elaborations

  • reporting the results of group discussions
  • providing simple explanations about how to do or make something
  • giving short oral presentations about areas of interest or content area topics, speaking clearly and with appropriate volume and using extended vocabulary and a growing knowledge of content-specific words

  VCELY211 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELY034

  Respond to various types of communication

  Elaborations

  • changing behaviour as a consequence of their needs
  • encountering people who interact with them and interpret their behaviour for them
  • reacting to familiar people, voices and sounds
  • responding to interaction with others, for example, by smiling, turning head, making noises

  VCELY034 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELT465

  Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’ as a literary device can be used in a range of different types of texts such as poetry to evoke particular emotional responses

  Elaborations

  • creating extended written responses to literary texts, making reference to varying points of view about the issues raised

  VCELT465 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY426

  Interpret the stated and implied meanings in spoken texts, and use interaction skills including voice and language conventions to discuss evidence that supports or challenges different perspectives

  Elaborations

  • listen to a conversation or speech and identify the point being made and explain the tone and manner of presentation. Change the focus of the conversation or speech and identify how meaning has changed
  • change the tone in which the speech or conversation is presented and discuss how interpretations can also change.

  VCELY426 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELA310

  Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation

  Elaborations

  • mapping topic words related to sub-headings

  VCELA310 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA380

  Understand that the coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example overviews, initial and concluding paragraphs and topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts

  Elaborations

  • analysing the structure of media texts such as television news items and broadcasts and various types of newspaper and magazine articles
  • writing structured paragraphs for use in a range of academic settings such as paragraph responses, reports and presentations

  VCELA380 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Writing | Language

• VCELT477

  Create literary texts with a sustained ‘voice’, selecting and adapting appropriate text structures, literary devices, language, auditory and visual structures and features for a specific purpose and intended audience

  Elaborations

  • creating a range of own spoken, written or multimodal texts, experimenting with and manipulating language devices for particular audiences, purposes and contexts
  • using humour and drama as devices to entertain, inform and persuade listeners, viewers and readers

  VCELT477 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Literature

• VCELY244

  Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions through initiating topics, making positive statements, and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner

  Elaborations

  • using spoken language for problem solving, and exploring ideas and concepts
  • listening for specific information and providing two or more key facts from an informative text spoken or read aloud
  • listening to, remembering and responding to detailed instructions

  VCELY244 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELY396

  Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing, using body language, voice qualities and other elements to add interest and meaning

  Elaborations

  • preparing a presentation combining print, visual and audio elements to explore and interpret ideas, drawing on knowledge and research about perspectives different from own

  VCELY396 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELY455

  Listen to spoken texts constructed for different purposes and analyse how language features in these texts position listeners to respond in particular ways, and consider the interaction skills used to present and discuss ideas, or to influence and engage audiences through persuasive language,...

  Elaborations

  • comparing and evaluating bias or stereotyping and presenting findings in discussions and presentations
  • identifying and commenting on omissions of information in different texts
  • exploring and identifying moral and ethical dimensions of an issue represented in different texts, and how these align or contradict with personal and others’ perspectives
  • understanding the role of intonation, pausing, combinations of clause and rhythm in spoken language and of punctuation

  VCELY455 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELY485

  Identify and explore the purposes and effects of different text structures and language features of spoken texts, and use this knowledge to create purposeful texts that inform, persuade and engage audiences, using organisation patterns, voice and language conventions to present a coherent point...

  Elaborations

  • identifying stereotypes of people, cultures, places, events, and concepts and explaining why they are stereotypes
  • identifying and explaining satirical events, including events in other cultures, for example depictions in political cartoons
  • applying knowledge of spoken, visual, auditory, technical and multimodal resources (for example sound and silence, camera shot types, lighting and colour) in conjunction with verbal resources for varying purposes and contexts
  • selecting subject matter and language to position readers to accept representations of people, events, ideas and information

  VCELY485 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• English | English: Structure

  The English curriculum is organised by language modes and strands.

  Language Modes

  The language modes are interrelated and the learning in one often supports and extends learning of the others. Each content description has been placed in the mode which is the major focus of its learning.

  Classroom...

  Overview material | English

• English: Level D achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and use spoken language to acknowledge and answer a person who communicates with them, giving a response of up to three words. Students use some social conventions during social interaction, such as making eye contact, show some understanding of turn taking, use appropriate...

  Level description | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening