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• VCELY127

  Copy and write letters, symbols and numbers

  Elaborations

  • using letters (including letter-like symbols) when 'writing'
  • using a tripod grip to hold and handle writing implements
  • developing finger strength and endurance by holding and handling small objects and materials

  VCELY127 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Literacy

• VCELA416

  Understand the effect of nominalisation in the writing of informative and persuasive texts

  Elaborations

  • analysing formal and persuasive texts to identify and explain language choices such as nominalisation

  VCELA416 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Writing | Language

• VCELA017

  Experience people writing, speaking and communicating using various modes

  Elaborations

  • experiencing speech being broken down into different sounds
  • reacting to interactive and multimodal texts
  • exploring a range of sounds and movements, including facial expression and gesture

  VCELA017 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA006

  Encounter words and writing within the environment and respond to spoken words in familiar environments

  Elaborations

  • experiencing others writing and reading text, for example ‘Where is mum?’
  • reacting to the connection between everyday words and significant objects, for example ‘Where is Elmo?’

  VCELA006 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELT192

  Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication

  Elaborations

  • creating visual representations of literary texts from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or Asian cultures
  • writing character descriptions drawn from illustrations in stories
  • retelling key events in stories using oral language, arts, digital technologies and performance media

  VCELT192 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Literature

• VCELY090

  Create simple texts by labelling images from an event with own ‘writing’

  Elaborations

  • assisting in the collection of relevant images for a class photo story
  • attempting to copy letters and simple words from a modelled example
  • participating in the construction of class texts by selecting images, and adding vocalisation or drawings

  VCELY090 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Literacy

• 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

• English: Foundation Level achievement standards - Writing

  When writing, students use familiar words and phrases and images to convey ideas. Their writing shows evidence of letter and sound knowledge, beginning writing behaviours and experimentation with capital letters and full stops. They correctly form all upper- and lower-case letters.

  Level description | English | Foundation Level | Writing

• 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

• VCELA326

  Recognise and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations

  Elaborations

  • spelling words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations, for example the 'ou' in 'journey', 'your', 'tour', 'sour'

  VCELA326 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | Language

• 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

• VCELA294

  Understand how to use phonic generalisations to identify and write words with more complex letter combinations

  Elaborations

  • using knowledge of complex spelling patterns to read and write words, for example 'bought'

  VCELA294 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Language

• VCELY160

  Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

  Elaborations

  • using image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and web-based texts
  • using speaking, writing and drawing to represent and communicate personal responses to ideas and events experienced through texts
  • creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts
  • using beginning concepts about print, sound–letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts

  VCELY160 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY268

  Understand the conventions for writing words and sentences using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size

  Elaborations

  • practising how to join letters to construct a fluent handwriting style

  VCELY268 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY389

  Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and supports writing for extended periods

  Elaborations

  • using handwriting regularly, attending to feedback about legibility

  VCELY389 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Writing | Literacy

• 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

• 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

• 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

• VCELY196

  Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters

  Elaborations

  • using correct posture and pencil grip
  • learning how each letter is constructed including where to start and the direction to follow
  • writing words legibly using unjoined print script of consistent size

  VCELY196 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY232

  Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position

  Elaborations

  • using correct pencil grip and posture
  • writing sentences legibly and fluently using unjoined print script of consistent size

  VCELY232 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Literacy