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• VCELA073

  Recognise that a group of words can communicate a message

  Elaborations

  • learning to build on spoken sentence starters to communicate a need or want, for example ‘I want … a drink’
  • learning to combine words to convey a message, for example ‘Dad’s car’, ‘throw ball’

  VCELA073 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA063

  Connect sounds and words and match them to objects

  Elaborations

  • learning about the connection between everyday images and objects
  • learning about the connection between everyday objects and their name
  • exploring different sounds and words and their connection to objects and people
  • exploring sounds and words by imitating and making approximations of words

  VCELA063 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Language

• English: Level B description

  In Level B, students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events. Students begin to understand that communication...

  Level description | English

• VCELA086

  Know their written name (as a grapheme) and match the letters in their name

  Elaborations

  • matching letters that are the same
  • recognising that letters and numbers are different
  • learning to speak and communicate using simple sentence starters

  VCELA086 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA050

  Recognise the connection between an object, image and spoken word

  Elaborations

  • learning that objects and actions are represented by a word or image
  • using an associated picture/image to request a familiar object, action or event

  VCELA050 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Writing | Language

• VCELA076

  Explore similarities and differences between letters by shape and size and match some letters with their name or sound

  Elaborations

  • tracing and exploring letter-like shapes and patterns
  • learning to identify the written form of their name

  VCELA076 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA202

  Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts

  Elaborations

  • learning forms of address for visitors and how to use language appropriately to ask directions and for information, for example on excursions

  VCELA202 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA369

  Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors

  Elaborations

  • learning about the structure of the book or film review and how it moves from context description to text summary and then to a text judgment

  VCELA369 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA142

  Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, including directionality

  Elaborations

  • learning about print: direction of print and return sweep, spaces between words
  • learning that Standard Australian English in written texts is read from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and that direction of print may differ in other cultures, for example Japanese texts
  • learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts
  • learning about simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu

  VCELA142 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELT080

  Recognise familiar texts which share the same character or similar topic or event

  Elaborations

  • learning that texts can share a similar theme or character
  • joining in the chant or rhyme during shared reading

  VCELT080 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT101

  Identify a favourite character or event within a story

  Elaborations

  • learning to link an event within a text to a feeling, for example happy, sad, angry
  • identifying a favourite image within a preferred text

  VCELT101 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT102

  Repeat and follow rhythms and sound patterns in familiar rhymes and songs from a range of cultures

  Elaborations

  • learning the key actions of everyday songs and rhymes
  • exploring the use of percussion instruments to react to the rhythm of a text

  VCELT102 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT089

  Retell an event or familiar text through images and illustrations

  Elaborations

  • labelling images from a familiar text or event
  • learning to sequence images to retell a significant event or routine

  VCELT089 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Literature

• VCELY083

  Use images within text to identify key objects and events

  Elaborations

  • using images to select a text to be read or viewed
  • learning to sequence images to demonstrate an understanding of a text that has been listened to or viewed

  VCELY083 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• English | English: Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It is through the study of English that individuals learn to analyse, understand, communicate and build relationships...

  Overview material | English

• English: Level D description

  In the Level D, students communicate with known adults, teachers and peers. Students are provided with experiences that engage, support and extend their learning, including the use of pictorial representations or other marks to express and record their ideas. Students communicate by using short...

  Level description | English

• English | English: Learning in English

  Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills across the strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Each strand contributes its own distinctive goals, body of knowledge, history of ideas and interests to the study of English. 

  Learning about and using language

  In the Language...

  Overview material | English

• VCELA051

  Recognise that text can be attached to images and recognise that people pause when talking and communicating

  Elaborations

  • attending to written texts attached to images within their environment
  • learning that objects can be represented by an image or text
  • communicating using a word/image to request an object
  • pausing to wait for a response after a communication
  • learning about taking turns in communication

  VCELA051 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Writing | Language

• VCELA087

  Use spoken words, sign or Augmentative Alternative Communication System to communicate and understand that images can be used to write and express ideas

  Elaborations

  • learning to use high-frequency images and words, for example the student’s own name, ‘stop’
  • using spoken words, articulating most of the sounds
  • learning that images/signs can be combined to make a word
  • listening to sounds and words and reproducing them using a personalised communication system

  VCELA087 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA075

  Recognise the use of images to represent an event, object or idea

  Elaborations

  • exploring what information an image tells us
  • learning that words and images can be used to tell a story about an event
  • using images to represent a story or an event

  VCELA075 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language