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• English: Level 7 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 7, students understand how text structures can influence the complexity of a text and are dependent on audience, purpose and context. They demonstrate understanding of how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary affects meaning. They explain issues and ideas...

  Level description | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing

• VCELY174

  Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations using interaction skills, including listening, while others speak

  Elaborations

  • listening to, remembering and following simple instructions
  • sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps
  • listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question
  • participating in informal situations, for example play-based experiences which involve the imaginative use of spoken language
  • participating in class, group and pair discussions about shared experiences including shared texts
  • asking and answering questions to clarify understanding

  VCELY174 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELA190

  Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands

  Elaborations

  • using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation when reading
  • reading texts and identifying different sentence-level punctuation
  • writing different types of sentences, for example statements and questions, and discussing appropriate punctuation

  VCELA190 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• 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

• VCELY210

  Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions, taking turns and recognising the contributions of others

  Elaborations

  • listening for details in spoken informative texts
  • participating in informal and structured class, group and pair discussions about content area topics, ideas and information
  • speaking clearly and with appropriate volume
  • interacting confidently and appropriately with peers, teachers, visitors and community members
  • learning to value listening, questioning and positive body language and understanding that different cultures may approach these differently
  • formulating different types of questions to ask a speaker, such as open and closed questions and ‘when’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions

  VCELY210 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• English: Level 7 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students communicate with peers, teachers, individuals, groups and community members in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments. They experience learning in both familiar and unfamiliar contexts that relate to the school curriculum, local community, regional...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students interact with peers, teachers, individuals, groups and community members in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments. They experience learning in both familiar and unfamiliar contexts that relate to the school curriculum, local community, regional and...

  Level description | English

• English | English: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

  Includes general advice and information...

  Overview material | English

• English: Level 8 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 8, students understand how the selection of text structures is influenced by the selection of language mode and how this varies for different purposes and audiences. They explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used to represent different ideas and issues in...

  Level description | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level 3 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to others’ views and respond appropriately using interaction skills. They understand how language features are used to link and sequence ideas. They understand how language can be used to express feelings and opinions on topics. They create a range of texts for familiar and...

  Level description | English | Level 3 | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level 5 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen and ask questions to clarify content. They use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources. They create a variety of sequenced texts for different purposes...

  Level description | English | Level 5 | Speaking and Listening

• VCELA200

  Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands

  Elaborations

  • learning the difference between questions and statements, requests and commands
  • learning about different types of questions including closed and open questions and ‘where’, ‘what’, ‘who’ and ‘why’ questions

  VCELA200 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• English: Foundation Level achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of the Foundation level, students use questioning and monitoring strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there are different types of texts and that these can have similar characteristics. They identify...

  Level description | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level C achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level C, students listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They identify the main character or event in a familiar text using visual images from the text. They participate in interactive stories and repeat or activate a short phrase...

  Level description | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level C achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and interact with others. They use particular greetings to acknowledge people, respond with ‘yes’, ‘no’ or single words to indicate understanding and use a few words and simple phrases. They can share their favourite items or experience with a small group...

  Level description | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening

• VCELA352

  Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion

  Elaborations

  • identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question

  VCELA352 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Language

• VCELY366

  Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions, and use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions according to group size, formality of interaction...

  Elaborations

  • using strategies, for example pausing, questioning, rephrasing, repeating, summarising, reviewing and asking clarifying questions
  • exploring personal reasons for acceptance or rejection of opinions offered and linking the reasons to the way our cultural experiences can affect our responses
  • recognising that closed questions ask for precise responses while open questions prompt a speaker to provide more information

  VCELY366 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELT336

  Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others

  Elaborations

  • posing and discussing questions, such as ‘Should this character have behaved as they did?’, and beginning to make balanced judgments about the dilemmas characters face and relative merit and harm

  VCELT336 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELY337

  Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences, and present and justify a point of view or recount an experience using interaction skills

  Elaborations

  • asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions

  VCELY337 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELA165

  Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people

  Elaborations

  • learning that language varies according to the relationships between people, for example between parent and child, teacher and student, siblings, friends, shopkeepers and customers
  • learning that we use a different tone and style of language with different people
  • learning to ask relevant questions and to express requests and opinions in ways that suit different contexts

  VCELA165 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language