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• VCEALC326

  Identify key points of information in short spoken texts

  Elaborations

  • recognising key topic words from classroom activities and texts
  • recalling the sequence of ideas in a spoken text
  • answering questions using a familiar structure on a familiar topic

  VCEALC326 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC327

  Recall and retell a simple story such as a recount, legend or fairytale

  Elaborations

  • learning the content and sequence of a story through storytelling, reading or viewing in home language or English, and retelling in English
  • using conventions of story texts, such as ‘Once upon a time’
  • controlling pronunciation, intonation and emphasis to contribute to engaging storytelling

  VCEALC327 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC636

  Respond to creative texts, showing a developing understanding of key events, characters and issues

  Elaborations

  • responding to a small range of creative texts, such as poems, short stories, films, songs
  • drawing on personal experience and knowledge of other texts to make inferences
  • describing the feelings of a character through writing, illustration or role-play

  VCEALC636 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC588

  Label images using vocabulary learnt or practised in class

  Elaborations

  • labelling parts of a familiar diagram
  • matching vocabulary from a list to items in an image or features on a map

  VCEALC588 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC779

  Write extended personal and imaginative texts showing an awareness of audience and purpose, with teacher prompts

  Elaborations

  • expressing personal opinion and creative ideas through a range of text types such as personal diary, response to a set text, contributions to an online discussion
  • following key elements of model texts in the structure and language used, and experimenting with new forms in some places

  VCEALC779 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC571

  Respond in a personal way to a short, familiar text

  Elaborations

  • expressing a personal response to a text (such as indicating enjoyment, satisfaction, agreement or disagreement) and giving simple reasons
  • comparing events from a text with personal experience
  • transforming part of a text into a new text type, for example creating an illustration or poem from a story

  VCEALC571 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC270

  Participate in simple group activities on shared texts, with some support

  Elaborations

  • joining group discussions by listening to other students and giving brief, relevant responses to questions
  • responding to the text, for example illustrating a section or answering questions about a text

  VCEALC270 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC190

  Participate in activities around class texts

  Elaborations

  • sequencing pictures in order
  • answering simple questions about ideas in a text
  • participating with key repetitive phrases or choruses in shared reading activities

  VCEALC190 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC084

  Respond appropriately in a range of common social and classroom situations

  Elaborations

  • responding with short extended responses including answering questions, adding to other speakers’ points, giving personal opinions
  • expressing ideas, humour and simple opinions, and describing feelings, for example ‘I am very happy’
  • giving a short presentation to a group on a familiar topic, such as sharing or recounting a personal experience
  • borrowing key topic words and question structures to help formulate responses

  VCEALC084 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC057

  Write a simple text that fulfils a function

  Elaborations

  • writing a simple description, recount or procedure after a shared class experience, for example a short text recounting making pancakes
  • writing the names of items depicted in images
  • copying and completing short, formulaic sentences to describe images, such as ‘This is a …’
  • choosing a sentence from a class text to use as a caption for an image

  VCEALC057 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC083

  Demonstrate active listening and follow speech

  Elaborations

  • displaying appropriate body language while listening, including body orientation, eye contact, facial expression, nodding or shaking head
  • following visual stimuli that accompany speech or aural texts

  VCEALC083 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC240

  Demonstrate active listening skills, attending to tone, intonation and body language

  Elaborations

  • displaying appropriate body language while listening, including body orientation, eye contact, facial expressions, nodding or shaking the head
  • using tone and intonation to distinguish between statements, questions and instructions

  VCEALC240 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC590

  Write short factual texts on familiar content, consisting of simple sentences or statements approximating sentences

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of short school-based text types, for example description, instruction, procedure, narrative
  • following an appropriate structure for the text, using model texts or templates for support

  VCEALC590 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC377

  Write simple texts that present a point of view

  Elaborations

  • writing a statement of opinion with a simple structure, including the opinion and reasons
  • writing to express likes and dislikes related to a class topic, or agreement and disagreement about an issue discussed in class

  VCEALC377 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC323

  Ask speaker to repeat or speak slowly, or ask what a word means

  Elaborations

  • using simple formulaic expressions to ask the speaker to repeat or speak slowly, for example ‘Please say that again’, ‘Please say it slowly’
  • generating a range of simple expressions to ask the meaning of a word, such as ‘What you mean?’, ‘What means “festival”?’, ‘What “dog”?’

  VCEALC323 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC056

  Write simple sentences related to own experience or school context

  Elaborations

  • writing familiar words and strings of letters that approximate the pronunciation of words
  • completing sentences giving personal information, for example ‘My name is …’, ‘I have … people in my family’
  • recounting personal experiences in sequence using basic detail

  VCEALC056 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC699

  Read with understanding texts on familiar topics, with some visual support

  Elaborations

  • reading a range of common factual texts, such as online posts that include images or diagrams
  • viewing multimodal texts, such as news reports, that combine audio, subtitles and video

  VCEALC699 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC003

  Negotiate simple social or learning activities

  Elaborations

  • observing peers and copying actions in response to instructions or in classroom activities
  • asking for attention or assistance from the teacher or a friend by asking directly, using intonation to signal requests or indicating non-understanding through speech or body language
  • understanding common vocabulary related to needs (such as ‘toilet’, ‘pencil’, ‘stop’) and constructing simple phrases with this vocabulary (such as ‘Go toilet?’, ‘This my pencil’, ‘Stop that!’)
  • using picture cards, classroom charts and objects to support communication, for example pointing to a picture

  VCEALC003 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC113

  Understand information in texts read and viewed in class

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating understanding of simple factual or fictional texts by performing a task, such as following written instructions to plant a seed in a pot, dramatising or drawing parts of a story
  • answering simple questions, indicating true/false statements or sequencing information from a text
  • matching phrases and sentences from the text to images or diagrams showing the same ideas
  • obtaining information from simple diagrams or graphs
  • demonstrating understanding of new texts and responding to them, for example reading along with repetitive sections or predicting what comes next

  VCEALC113 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC508

  Develop basic digital technology skills that support reading of digital texts

  Elaborations

  • locating letters on a keyboard
  • typing letters and words, copying from a print text
  • following step-by-step instructions to navigate a digital text using menu items or links

  VCEALC508 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Reading and Viewing | Communication