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• VCEALA198

  Make simple connections between personal experience and familiar stories

  Elaborations

  • identifying familiar settings, characters or events in stories
  • answering simple questions about personal experience related to stories, for example ‘Have you ever …?’, ‘Do you like … too?’

  VCEALA198 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA041

  Recall or repeat familiar or favourite parts of a text using memory or home language resources

  Elaborations

  • identifying familiar settings, characters or events in stories
  • retelling events or describing characters from a story, or stating facts from an information text
  • answering simple questions about personal experience related to stories, for example ‘Have you ever …?’, ‘Do you like … too?’
  • translating parts of a familiar or favourite text to explain it to a family member or home language peer

  VCEALA041 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL644

  Show awareness of how cohesive devices organise ideas

  Elaborations

  • locating in a text a small range of connectives (such as ‘then’, ‘so’), pronouns (such as ‘this’, ‘that’) and articles (such as ‘a’, ‘the’)
  • identifying how the use of related vocabulary (synonyms, antonyms or words related to a particular topic) can make connections between parts of a text
  • following the items referred to by reference items through a long text, for example ‘The movement of electricity through some metals can be converted to heat. This is an easy way to heat people’s homes, and the electricity needed to do this is not too expensive’

  VCEALL644 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features