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• VCELT150

  Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text

  Elaborations

  • identifying some features of culture related to characters and events in literary texts, for example dress, food and daily routines
  • listening, responding to and joining in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs

  VCELT150 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT159

  Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images

  Elaborations

  • drawing, labelling and role playing representations of characters or events
  • reciting rhymes with actions
  • using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts

  VCELT159 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literature

• VCELT208

  Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts

  Elaborations

  • examining different types of literature including traditional tales, humorous stories and poetry
  • discussing similarities and differences between texts ( for example features of main characters in different stories)
  • discussing features of book settings including time (year, season) and place (country or city, realistic or imagined)
  • discussing how plots develop including: beginnings (orientation), how the problem (complication) is introduced and solved (resolution)

  VCELT208 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELA204

  Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words

  Elaborations

  • recognising words that start with a given sound, end with a given sound, have a given medial sound, rhyme with a given word
  • recognising and producing rhyming words
  • replacing sounds in spoken words, for example replace the ‘m’ in 'mat' with 'c' to form a new word 'cat', deleting the 'f' from 'farm' to form a new word 'arm', and substituting the 't' in 'pet' with 'n' to form a new word 'pen'
  • saying sounds in order for a given spoken word (for example f/i/sh, th/i/s)

  VCELA204 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA141

  Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes

  Elaborations

  • sharing experiences of different texts and discussing some differences
  • discussing the purpose of texts, for example ‘This text will tell a story’, ‘This text will give information’
  • repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases

  VCELA141 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• 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

• VCELA473

  Analyse how higher order concepts are developed in complex texts through language features including nominalisation, clause combinations, technicality and abstraction

  Elaborations

  • considering how nominalisation affects the way in which events are constructed and explained, making some information more explicit and other information less so
  • analysing how logical relations between ideas are built up by combining main with subordinate clauses indicating cause, result, manner, concession, condition, and so on (for example, ‘Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life (concession), Keats’ reputation grew substantially after his death’)
  • noting how technicality allows for efficient reference to shared knowledge, indicating growing expertise in the field (for example, ‘The Romantic poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes.’)
  • observing how abstraction allows for greater generalisation at a higher level (for example, ‘the political, religious, social and economic features of the society’ – which is an abstract noun group/phrase)

  VCELA473 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Language

• VCELT447

  Experiment with the ways that language features, image and sound can be adapted in literary texts

  Elaborations

  • making language choices and choosing particular language devices to achieve intended effects, for example building in a surprise or twist in the ending of a short story or final scene of a film
  • taking an existing short story, poem, play or speech in print form and creating a short visual text which is accompanied by a sound track containing music and sound effects, and which is intended to amuse audiences who are familiar with the original text
  • creating written interpretations of traditional and contemporary literature which employs devices like metaphor, symbol, allegory and myth, and evaluating the contribution of these devices to the interpretation of the text
  • creating written interpretations of traditional and contemporary poetry (for example sonnets and contemporary song lyrics) focusing on their use of symbol, myth, icons and imagery

  VCELT447 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Literature