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• VCELA199

  Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication

  Elaborations

  • recognising the effect of words, symbols, gestures and body language on the way communications are received by others

  VCELA199 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELY082

  Recognise that images, words and symbols convey meaning

  Elaborations

  • identifying and labelling pictorial representations of familiar objects, events and activities
  • identifying some personally significant words, symbols and images

  VCELY082 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELY047

  Use images to obtain meaning from shared texts

  Elaborations

  • attending to familiar images and objects in texts
  • attending and reproducing some sounds and actions

  VCELY047 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA325

  Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts

  Elaborations

  • moving from general, ‘all-purpose’ words, for example ‘cut’ to more specific words, for example ‘slice’, ‘dice’, ‘fillet’, ‘segment’

  VCELA325 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | Language

• VCELA144

  Recognise that texts are made up of words and groups of words that make meaning

  Elaborations

  • exploring spoken, written and multimodal texts and identifying elements, for example words and images

  VCELA144 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• 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

• VCELA145

  Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts

  Elaborations

  • talking about how a ‘different’ story is told if we read only the words, or only the pictures; and the story that words and pictures make when combined
  • exploring how the combination of print and images in texts create meaning

  VCELA145 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA094

  Recognise that words, images and actions have the same meaning across environments

  Elaborations

  • recognising and communicating the label for everyday objects
  • showing some of the ways to maintain an interaction between self and others using verbal- vocal exchange, sign or augmentative and alternative communication
  • recognising and following simple multi-word directions

  VCELA094 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELY267

  Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation

  Elaborations

  • using glossaries, print and digital dictionaries and spell check to edit spelling, realising that spell check accuracy depends on understanding the word function, for example there/their; rain/reign

  VCELY267 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELA180

  Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning

  Elaborations

  • talking about what is ‘real’ and what is imagined in texts, for example ‘This is the section about platypuses in the book about mammals’

  VCELA180 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA270

  Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning

  Elaborations

  • learning that a word or sign can carry different weight in different cultural contexts, for example that particular respect is due to some people and creatures and that stories can be passed on to teach us how to live appropriately

  VCELA270 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Speaking and Listening | 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

• VCELA352

  Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion

  Elaborations

  • identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question

  VCELA352 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Language

• VCELA381

  Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses

  Elaborations

  • discussing how qualifying statements add meaning to opinions and views in spoken texts

  VCELA381 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Writing | Language

• VCELA370

  Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, including gaze, angle and social distance

  Elaborations

  • comparing choices for point of view in animations, advertisements and other persuasive texts
  • comparing how different advertisements use visual elements to advertise the same product
  • experimenting with digital storytelling conventions to create personal reflections on shared experiences

  VCELA370 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA397

  Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how different layers of meaning are developed through the use of metaphor, irony and parody

  Elaborations

  • identifying and evaluating examples of how rhetorical devices reveal the dark or serious aspects of a topic in ways that cause laughter or amusement, for example by making a statement but implying/meaning the opposite (irony); exaggerating or overstating something (hyperbole); imitating or sending up something (parody), and making something appear less serious than it really is (understatement)

  VCELA397 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA402

  Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning

  Elaborations

  • comprehending a series of static images and combinations of language and images in a picture book, for example title, setting, characters, actions, as well as technical elements including position, size, colour, angle, framing, point of view
  • analysing the relationship between visual elements and text in non-fiction texts such as documentaries, television news, online newspapers and digital magazines

  VCELA402 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA431

  Analyse and explain the use of symbols, icons and myth in still and moving images and how these augment meaning

  Elaborations

  • investigating the use of symbols, for example the flag, the digger’s hat and the Southern Cross in images, films and picture books, and evaluating their contribution to viewers’ understanding of issues, for example national identity, recognising that visual and verbal symbols have different meanings for different groups

  VCELA431 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA474

  Refine vocabulary choices to discriminate between shades of meaning, with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences

  Elaborations

  • creating texts that demand complex processes of responding, for example the inclusion of symbolism in advertising, foreshadowing in documentary and irony in humorous texts

  VCELA474 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Language

• VCELT375

  Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetry

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the sound and rhythm of poetry and using metalanguage, for example ‘refrain’, ‘chant’ to discuss the layers of meaning that are created

  VCELT375 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Literature