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• VCELY125

  Use symbols, letters and words to create a simple statement about an idea or event

  Elaborations

  • creating a drawing and simple statement (of own ‘writing’) about an event
  • participating in the construction of class texts by selecting images and suggesting simple sentences to accompany the image

  VCELY125 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY185

  Respond to texts drawn from a range of cultures and experiences

  Elaborations

  • exploring some of the meanings and teachings embedded in Dreaming stories
  • using drawing and writing to depict and comment on people and places beyond their immediate experience

  VCELY185 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• 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

• 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

• VCELA166

  Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • recognising some of the ways we can use speech, gesture, writing and media to communicate feelings
  • recognising some of the ways emotions and feelings can be conveyed and influenced by visual representations, for example in advertising and animations

  VCELA166 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• 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

• 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

• VCELA445

  Understand how punctuation is used along with layout and font variations in constructing texts for different audiences and purposes

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with the use of colons and semicolons in expositions and other extended writing to improve precision and clarity of expression
  • investigating instances of colons and semicolons in expository texts and discuss their uses in elaborating on and clarifying ideas in complex sentences

  VCELA445 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Language

• VCELA168

  Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words

  Elaborations

  • listening to the sounds a student hears in the word, and writing letters to represent those sounds
  • identifying rhyme and syllables in spoken words
  • identifying and manipulating sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
  • identifying onset and rime in one-syllable spoken words

  VCELA168 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELT228

  Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts

  Elaborations

  • creating imaginative reconstructions of stories and poetry using a range of print and digital media
  • telling known stories from a different point of view
  • orally, in writing or using digital media, constructing a sequel to a known story

  VCELT228 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT314

  Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences

  Elaborations

  • orally, in writing or using digital media, giving a considered interpretation and opinion about a literary text, recognising that one's view may not be shared by others and that others have equal claims to divergent views

  VCELT314 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY480

  Review, edit and refine own and others’ texts for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and effects

  Elaborations

  • reflecting on, critiquing and refining own texts prior to publishing for an authentic audience, such as uploading a movie to a website, contributing to an anthology, writing texts appropriate for the workplace, or delivering a presentation

  VCELY480 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY057

  Grasp and move objects within and between their hands

  Elaborations

  • imitating writing behaviour
  • drawing non-linear shapes and forms
  • making marks on paper
  • crossing the midline to handle and manipulate objects
  • manipulating objects by picking up, putting down, transferring and ‘posting’ objects of various sizes

  VCELY057 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY329

  Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience

  Elaborations

  • using research from print and digital resources to gather and organise information for writing
  • selecting an appropriate text structure for the writing purpose and sequencing content according to that text structure, introducing the topic, and grouping related information in well-sequenced paragraphs with a concluding statement
  • using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to purpose and context
  • using paragraphs to present and sequence a text
  • using appropriate grammatical features, including more complex sentences and relevant verb tense, pronoun reference, adverb and noun groups/phrases for effective descriptions

  VCELY329 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | 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 | 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

• VCELA333

  Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time

  Elaborations

  • recognising that a knowledge of word origins is not only interesting in its own right, but that it extends students’ knowledge of vocabulary and spelling
  • exploring examples of words in which pronunciation, writing and meaning has changed over time, including words from a range of cultures

  VCELA333 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA226

  Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words

  Elaborations

  • drawing on knowledge of high-frequency sight words
  • drawing on knowledge of sound–letter relationships (for example breaking words into syllables and phonemes)
  • using known words in writing and spelling unknown words using developing visual, graphophonic and morphemic knowledge

  VCELA226 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELT439

  Analyse text structures and language features of literary texts, and make relevant comparisons with other texts

  Elaborations

  • evaluating the effect on readers of text structures and language features of a literary text and comparing these with other texts
  • by comparing texts, writing or speaking about how well the author constructed the opening and closing sections of the text and used ‘hooks’ to keep the reader/viewer/listener engaged and reading on/watching/listening to the end

  VCELT439 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT464

  Analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts

  Elaborations

  • using terms associated with literary text analysis (for example narrative, characters, poetry, figurative language, symbolism, soundtrack) when evaluating aspects that are valued and that contain aesthetic qualities
  • writing or speaking about how effectively the author constructed the text and engaged and sustained the reader’s/viewer’s/listener’s personal interest

  VCELT464 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature