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• VCEALC717

  Write personal and imaginative texts showing an awareness of elements such as text structure or storyline and character

  Elaborations

  • following key elements of model texts in the structure and language used, and experimenting with new forms in some places
  • combining personal experience, ideas from other texts, and imaginative detail into creative texts

  VCEALC717 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC550

  Exchange information in oral interactions

  Elaborations

  • understanding a range of common questions on personal or familiar topics
  • using common sentence structures and borrowing phrases from questions, for example ‘What do you like to do on the weekends?’ ‘I like to do sport on the weekends’

  VCEALC550 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC031

  Understand aspects of simple, familiar texts

  Elaborations

  • recognising illustrations or character names when rereading a familiar story
  • understanding repeated conventional features of familiar text types, such as titles, ‘Once upon a time’
  • identifying characters, settings or key events in a narrative
  • showing comprehension through appropriate activities, such as sequencing pictures, dramatising a story, painting or drawing characters

  VCEALC031 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC759

  Extract and manipulate relevant information from a range of texts

  Elaborations

  • understanding connections between print and visual aspects of a text
  • locating, interpreting and explaining information from visual representations such as tables, graphs, diagrams and maps

  VCEALC759 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC484

  Identify single pieces of information from a short, spoken text

  Elaborations

  • identifying information related to common or personally relevant topics, such as colours, numbers, animals
  • asking questions to help identify relevant items of information, for example ‘What colour was it?’ ‘It was blue’

  VCEALC484 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC296

  Write simple factual texts using print and computers or other digital devices for a variety of classroom purposes

  Elaborations

  • writing simple factual texts to give information, instruction or keep records, such as a digital class journal

  VCEALC296 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC632

  Employ a repertoire of strategies to read familiar and simple factual and fictional texts

  Elaborations

  • adjusting focus of reading in response to the demands of the text and the reading task, for example scanning the text for particular information or skimming to get the main idea
  • bringing content knowledge and familiar vocabulary to reading

  VCEALC632 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC701

  Interpret the various icons, menu items and links on an accessible website

  Elaborations

  • recognising icons used for common functions, such as search, download and print
  • reading menus or links in order to navigate a website

  VCEALC701 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC004

  Question to check meaning so as to clarify or confirm

  Elaborations

  • checking understanding of simple, familiar instructions and routines, for example Teacher: ‘It’s playtime.’ Student: ‘Go outside?’
  • using learnt social formulas, such as ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, when asking questions
  • using simple formulaic expressions to make requests or ask questions, for example ‘Please say again’, ‘What is that?’
  • listening to and using speaker’s key words when asking for clarification, for example Teacher: ‘Paste it in your book.’ Student: ‘Language book?’
  • supplementing spoken requests with gesture and mime

  VCEALC004 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC546

  Communicate needs in common social and school routines

  Elaborations

  • asking questions and following instructions to meet personal needs, such as where to find resources or what colour pen to use
  • understanding common words for social and school purposes, such as ‘I would like …’, ‘I need some help’

  VCEALC546 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC163

  Respond appropriately verbally or non-verbally when spoken to

  Elaborations

  • indicating agreement or non-agreement through body language or simple utterances such as ‘yes’ or ‘no’
  • answering familiar personal questions using single-word responses, such as name, age, likes or dislikes

  VCEALC163 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC569

  Demonstrate understanding by performing a task

  Elaborations

  • following print instructions to conduct a simple task or experiment
  • dramatising or drawing parts of a story
  • answering simple questions, indicating true/false statements or sequencing information

  VCEALC569 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC164

  Ask for repetition or ask questions to check meaning or elicit help

  Elaborations

  • using simple formulaic expressions to make requests or ask questions, for example ‘Please say again’, ‘What is that?’
  • listening to and using speaker’s key words when asking for clarification, for example ‘What means “sibling”?

  VCEALC164 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC572

  Use basic features of a website with guidance

  Elaborations

  • following instructions to navigate a digital text using navigation menus and links
  • using functions such as zoom or search to read text on a website

  VCEALC572 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC613

  Extract specific information from spoken or visual texts, using guide questions from the teacher

  Elaborations

  • using questions to identify key words in the text or predict the sequence of information

  VCEALC613 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC673

  Participate in conversations with a small range of speakers

  Elaborations

  • participating in conversations with a range of familiar people such as peers and teachers
  • using appropriate sentence structures and vocabulary to participate in conversations

  VCEALC673 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC457

  Write creative texts incorporating personal experiences and ideas from other texts

  Elaborations

  • following key elements of model texts in the structure and language used, and experimenting with new forms in some places
  • combining personal experience, ideas from other texts, and imaginative detail into creative texts

  VCEALC457 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC189

  Make simple predictions or inferences about a text, with support

  Elaborations

  • answering simple questions predicting events in a familiar text, for example ‘Where will they go next?’
  • matching words that describe emotions with images in a book, for example ‘happy’, ‘sad’

  VCEALC189 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC351

  Contribute to group activities on shared texts

  Elaborations

  • listening to group discussion, contributing relevant ideas and negotiating responses to the group activity
  • creating shared responses to the text, for example answering questions or jointly writing a short extension to a story

  VCEALC351 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC589

  Write short, simple texts for varied social purposes

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of short texts for varied social purposes related to familiar experiences, such as a thank-you text message or email
  • using model texts and templates to structure texts appropriately
  • incorporating some formulaic expressions copied from model texts, such as ‘Dear …’, ‘Once upon a time’

  VCEALC589 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Communication