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• VCEALL255

  Use a small range of basic verb forms accurately

  Elaborations

  • matching simple verb tense to time words, such as ‘Yesterday we went …’, ‘Now we can eat lunch’, ‘Tomorrow we will go …’
  • maintaining consistent tense when describing events in the past, present and future, for example ‘I walked to his house and we played games’
  • using ‘no’ or ‘not’ with verbs, adjectives and nouns to express negative forms, such as ‘Not play’, ‘I no sad’, ‘Me no’

  VCEALL255 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL626

  Use a range of verb forms with increasing accuracy

  Elaborations

  • accurately using auxiliary verbs to express negative forms, such as ‘I don’t like winter’, ‘She hasn’t got a sister’
  • maintaining subject–verb agreement with negative forms, such as ‘She doesn’t like it’, ‘They don’t know’
  • beginning to use modal verbs, for example ‘It might rain’, ‘You can do it’

  VCEALL626 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL046

  Recognise familiar words and phrases

  Elaborations

  • recognising and reading personally significant words, such as own name on charts, book labels and name tags
  • locating and pointing to familiar words or phrases when prompted, for example ‘This book is about frogs. Where can you see the word “frog”?’
  • reading aloud words and phrases from familiar texts
  • recognising common words and phrases from familiar charts, labels, books
  • recognising labels for frequently accessed classroom items, for example ‘books’, ‘recycling’
  • following instructions on simple signs such as ‘Stop’, ‘Line up here’

  VCEALL046 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL393

  Use a number of common conjunctions to link ideas to create compound and complex sentences

  Elaborations

  • constructing compound sentences with an expanding range of coordinating conjunctions (such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’), for example ‘I caught the train and then walked to the beach but I didn’t go swimming’
  • constructing complex sentences using some common subordinating conjunctions (such as ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘when’), for example ‘When Sam opened the door, her puppy ran to greet her’, ‘He can’t drink milk because he is allergic’

  VCEALL393 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL391

  Use a range of verb forms correctly

  Elaborations

  • maintaining consistency of verb tenses in a paragraph or short text, such as ‘–ing’ and ‘–ed’
  • using ‘to be’ as an auxiliary verb in common phrases, for example in simple passive constructions (‘It was broken’) or continuous tenses (‘I am eating’)
  • using ‘to have’ as an auxiliary verb in common phrases, for example ‘They have finished’
  • expressing a small range of complex negatives with some accuracy, for example with appropriate subject–verb agreement (‘He doesn’t like’) or modality (‘She can’t come’)

  VCEALL391 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL021

  Understand the tense of statements or instructions by using time references

  Elaborations

  • understanding common time references in basic sentences, such as ‘We went yesterday’, ‘Tomorrow we will go’, ‘Now we can eat lunch’
  • matching simple verb tense to time words, such as ‘Yesterday we did …’, ‘Tomorrow we do …’
  • sometimes using inconsistent tense when describing events in the past, present and future, for example ‘We waited and then catch the train’

  VCEALL021 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL560

  Choose correct syntactic forms for questions, statements and commands

  Elaborations

  • beginning questions with question words such as ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘how’
  • using auxiliary verbs with some accuracy to construct simple open, closed, positive and negative questions, for example ‘Do you like running?’, ‘Why can’t you eat that?’
  • constructing positive and negative statements using subject + verb, for example ‘I finished’ and ‘The bus arrived’
  • beginning commands with an imperative verb, for example ‘Come over here’, ‘Bring that’

  VCEALL560 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCECU006

  Discuss the ways to identify ethical considerations in a range of problems

  Elaborations

  • considering questions such as ‘does this matter and why?’, ‘is this about something where the outcome can be judged good, bad, right or wrong?’ for usefulness in identifying an ethical problem
  • identifying an ethical problem, such as whether to help a friend or stranger first and considering questions such as ‘Who is involved and how are they likely to be affected?’ and ‘Does this involve breaking a rule or other commitment?’
  • using if…then reasoning to identify possible consequences as an ethical consideration in a situation, for example, if animals thought to be cuter were protected ahead of other animals then…

  VCECU006 | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding Concepts

• VCELA122

  Use, communicate or articulate high-frequency words and reproduce familiar sounds and their letters

  Elaborations

  • identifying the beginning sound of own names and other familiar words
  • using and articulating a range of familiar words
  • repeating short refrains from texts, for example ‘I think I can’, ‘I’m not scared’, ‘Where are you?’
  • identifying some words with the same onset, for example objects that start with the same letter as their name
  • learning to recognize some letter-sound relationships

  VCELA122 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Language

• VCELT274

  Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

  Elaborations

  • reading texts in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children/young people are the central characters/protagonists and making links to own lives, noting similarities
  • exploring the ways that the same story can be told in many cultures, identifying variations in the storyline and in music (for example ‘The Ramayana’ story which is told to children in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Tibet and Malaysia)

  VCELT274 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT313

  Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts

  Elaborations

  • describing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, symbolic elements, dialogue and character descriptions, can convey information about cultural elements, such as beliefs, traditions and customs
  • identifying variability within cultural contexts in literary texts, recognising the diversity of people’s experiences within a cultural group such as differences in setting and lifestyle between urban and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  VCELT313 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELU116

  Recognise features of familiar spoken, written and visual texts, such as songs, labels and captions

  Elaborations

  • listening to, reading and viewing different simple texts in Greek, understanding that texts can be short or long; and spoken, written, digital, visual or multimodal; for example, songs, chants, labels, captions, stories and dialogues
  • identifying Greek from a selection of spoken or written texts from other languages represented in the classroom or in the school
  • comparing similar texts in Greek and English and noticing how they are the same or different, for example, a counting song, street signs or labels at a market

  VCELU116 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCGGK126

  The challenges of managing and planning Australia’s urban future

  Elaborations

  • examining the forecasts for the size of Australia’s major cities and regional urban centres, and discussing the implications for their environmental sustainability and liveability
  • investigating ways of managing the projected growth of Australia’s cities and regional urban centres
  • exploring the arguments for and against a more balanced distribution of the urban population
  • examining how Canberra can be used as an example of urban decentralisation
  • proposing action to respond to geographical issues related to urbanisation

  VCGGK126 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Changing nations

• VCGGK055

  What people do in specific spaces

  Elaborations

  • assisting to construct a recount of what a place can be used for
  • identifying how they look after a place
  • identifying some rules about a place, for example, not running, quiet voice etc.
  • participating in structured activities which investigate different places and what they do and do not do in each place
  • identifying and following rules and expectations within a place

  VCGGK055 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCHPEM038

  Engage in regular physical activities and explore the development of their ability and health

  Elaborations

  • moving around their environment and perform simple whole-body movements
  • learning through a range of structured learning activities to use equipment to slide, climb, float, ride and swing
  • choose from a series of structured leisure activities at home and at school
  • identifying how regular physical activity can help keep people healthy
  • exploring how their ability and health improve over time due to regular physical activities

  VCHPEM038 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM052

  Explore how regular physical activity keeps them healthy and well

  Elaborations

  • recording their skills and abilities and celebrating improvements in endurance, achievements and fitness
  • labelling their feelings after participating in different physical activities
  • exploring what body parts are used in different physical activities
  • sharing the things they like to do to stay physically active
  • exploring and linking how regular physical activity can help keep people healthy

  VCHPEM052 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM159

  Transfer understanding from previous movement experiences to create solutions to movement challenges

  Elaborations

  • drawing parallels between successful movement strategies in one sporting situation and how similar strategies could be used effectively in a different sport
  • speculating on possible outcomes of innovative solutions to movement challenges based on past experiences
  • reflecting on successful movement solutions and proposing how they can be transferred to new movement challenges
  • demonstrating motivation, persistence, confidence and commitment when faced with difficult or unfamiliar movement tasks

  VCHPEM159 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10 | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEP095

  Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces

  Elaborations

  • identifying how regular physical activity promotes health, and recognising and accessing opportunities to be active while they are at school
  • creating promotional posters to display around the school containing positive health and physical activity messages
  • establishing a small fruit and vegetable garden for the class that can be used to create healthy lunches or snacks
  • exploring and developing responsible and sustainable classroom practices such as recycling, composting and energy saving

  VCHPEP095 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP076

  Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings

  Elaborations

  • recognising own emotions and demonstrating positive ways to react in different situations at home and at school
  • identifying the body’s reaction to a range of situations, including safe and unsafe situations, and comparing the different emotional responses
  • predicting how a person or character might be feeling based on the words they use, their facial expressions and body language
  • understanding how a person’s reaction to a situation can affect others’ feelings

  VCHPEP076 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 1 and 2 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP089

  Explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change

  Elaborations

  • discussing physical, social and emotional changes that occur as individuals get older, and exploring how these changes impact on how they think and feel about themselves and different situations
  • exploring how friendships change as they grow older and identifying strategies to manage change
  • identifying people or sources of information that they can access if they have questions about the changes that are occurring

  VCHPEP089 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active