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• VCELA122

  Use, communicate or articulate high-frequency words and reproduce familiar sounds and their letters

  Elaborations

  • identifying the beginning sound of own names and other familiar words
  • using and articulating a range of familiar words
  • repeating short refrains from texts, for example ‘I think I can’, ‘I’m not scared’, ‘Where are you?’
  • identifying some words with the same onset, for example objects that start with the same letter as their name
  • learning to recognize some letter-sound relationships

  VCELA122 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Language

• VCELA184

  Understand how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words, and that some high-frequency words have regular and irregular spelling components

  Elaborations

  • using strategies such as look-say-cover-write-check to learn an increasing number of high-frequency sight words recognised in texts, including words with regular spelling patterns such as 'them' and 'got' and irregular patterns such as 'one' and 'was'

  VCELA184 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• VCELA179

  Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

  Elaborations

  • talking about effective words that describe a place, person or event
  • learning how a sentence can be made more vivid by adding adjectives, adverbs and unusual verbs

  VCELA179 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• 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

• VCELA227

  Use visual memory to write high-frequency words and words where spelling is not predictable from the sounds

  Elaborations

  • writing sight words (because, said) and other words that cannot be sounded out phonetically (bird, phone) by drawing on knowledge of letter patterns, word shape and possible sequencing of letters in English (for example, jam is possible but not jxm)

  VCELA227 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA250

  Recognise most high-frequency words, know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and know some homophones and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word

  Elaborations

  • becoming familiar with most high-frequency sight words

  VCELA250 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA157

  Understand that spoken sounds and words can be written and know how to write some high-frequency words and other familiar words including their name

  Elaborations

  • recognising the most common sound made by each letter of the alphabet, including consonants and short vowel sounds
  • writing consonant-vowel-consonant words by writing letters to represent the sounds in the spoken words
  • knowing that spoken words are written down by listening to the sounds heard in the word and then writing letters to represent those sounds

  VCELA157 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Language

• English: Level 3 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, students communicate with peers and teachers from other classes and schools in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, students experience learning in familiar contexts and a range of contexts that relate to study in other areas of the curriculum. They interact with peers and teachers from other classes and schools in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments.

  Students engage with...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 1 achievement standards - Writing

  When writing, students provide details about ideas or events, and details about the participants in those events. They accurately spell words with regular spelling patterns and use their knowledge of blending and segmenting, and many simple and high-frequency words to write predictable words....

  Level description | English | Level 1 | Writing

• 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

• VCELA167

  Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school

  Elaborations

  • engaging in multiple speaking and listening experiences to build vocabulary
  • discussing new vocabulary found in texts
  • bringing vocabulary from personal experiences, relating this to new experiences and building a vocabulary for thinking and talking about school topics

  VCELA167 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Language

• English: Level 3 achievement standards - Writing

  Students' texts include writing and images to express and develop in some detail experiences, events, information, ideas and characters. They demonstrate understanding of grammar and choose vocabulary and punctuation appropriate to the purpose and context of their writing. They use knowledge letter...

  Level description | English | Level 3 | Writing

• 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

• English: Level 1 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised. They are able to read...

  Level description | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing

• VCELA351

  Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases

  Elaborations

  • knowing that verbs often represent actions and that the choice of more expressive verbs makes an action more vivid (for example 'She ate her lunch' compared to 'She gobbled up her lunch')
  • knowing that adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide important details about a happening(for example, ‘At nine o'clock the buzzer rang loudly throughout the school’) or state (for example, ‘The tiger is a member of the cat family’)
  • knowing the difference between the simple present tense (for example 'Pandas eat bamboo.') and the simple past tense (for example 'She replied.')
  • knowing that the simple present tense is typically used to talk about either present states (for example, ‘He lives in Darwin’) or actions that happen regularly in the present (for example, ‘He watches television every night’) or that represent ‘timeless’ happenings, as in information reports (for example, ‘Bears hibernate in winter’)
  • knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time (for example 'She will call you tomorrow'; 'I am going to the movies tomorrow'; 'Tomorrow I leave for Hobart')

  VCELA351 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Language

• VCELA292

  Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases

  Elaborations

  • creating richer, more specific descriptions through the use of noun groups/phrases (for example, in narrative texts, ‘their very old Siamese cat’; in reports, 'its extremely high mountain ranges')

  VCELA292 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Language

• English: Foundation Level description

  In the Foundation level, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults, and students from other classes.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read and view spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as some...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 1 description

  In Level 1, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults and students from other classes.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to entertain and inform. These encompass traditional...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 2 description

  In Level 2, students communicate with peers, teachers, students from other classes, and community members.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as...

  Level description | English