By the end of Level 4 students explain how solutions are designed to best meet needs of the communities and their environments. They describe contributions of people in design and technologies occupations. Students describe how the features of technologies can be used to create designed solutions...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level A, students recognise common digital systems that are used to meet specific everyday purposes.
Students react to different types of data and how digital systems can be used to represent data as images.
Students recognise that routine tasks involve completing a set of steps.
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A
By the end of Level 8, students distinguish between different types of networks and their suitability in meeting defined purposes.
Students explain how text, image and sound data can be represented and secured in digital systems and presented using digital systems. They analyse and evaluate data...
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 4, students describe how a range of digital systems and their peripheral devices can be used for different purposes.
Students explain how the same data sets can be represented in different ways. They collect and manipulate different data when creating information and digital...
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 10, students describe how resources are allocated and distributed in the Australian economy and the way economic performance is measured. They provide explanations for variations in economic performance and standards of living within and between economies. Students explain...
Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 8, students describe the interdependence of consumers and producers in the market and explain how markets operate to set prices and why governments may influence the market’s operation. They explain the rights and responsibilities of consumers and businesses when making...
Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 6, students distinguish between needs and wants and recognise that choices need to be made when allocating resources. They recognise that consumer choices and financial decisions are influenced by a range of factors and describe the effects of these choices and decisions on...
Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 5 and 6
At Level A2 students read and respond to a wide range of familiar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including visual, multimodal or interactive texts.
Students predict, ask questions, retell and talk about texts read and viewed in class. With support, they read a range of...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing
At Level A1 students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through drawings, copied writing, dictated texts and their own basic writing, showing evidence of a developing understanding of the writing process. They contribute to shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Writing
At Level A2 students communicate ideas, events and experiences through simple texts based on familiar spoken and written language. They write for a variety of personal and classroom purposes, using known and modelled structures and features. They write everyday texts and simple stories, recounts...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Writing
At Level B1 students communicate verbally and non-verbally in routine social and classroom situations, understanding controlled English that is supported by its immediate context. They use formulas, well-rehearsed and common sentence patterns, and short, simple utterances to contribute relatively...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level B3 students communicate for a range of purposes on a variety of familiar topics, using a basic repertoire of text types. They write sequenced and ordered factual texts, and narrative texts that maintain a cohesive storyline and characterisation. They demonstrate an awareness of how effective...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Writing
At Level BL students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through written, drawn, copied or dictated texts. They contribute to whole-class or small-group shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness that written texts in English are presented according to certain conventions...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level BL | Writing
At Level C3 students demonstrate a basic understanding of the main ideas, issues or plot developments in a range of accessible texts from across the curriculum. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students demonstrate...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing
At Level CL students communicate simply but effectively in English in familiar social and classroom contexts. They communicate using formulaic language; short, simple and well-rehearsed grammatical features; and adaptations of their emerging English repertoire. They use stress and intonation appropriately...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Speaking and Listening
At Level CL, in familiar contexts, students write short, grammatically simple texts based on well-rehearsed spoken and well-practised written English. They write for a range of basic classroom and personal purposes, such as making lists and writing simple journal entries and notes, and complete...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Writing
By the end of the Foundation level, students use questioning and monitoring strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there are different types of texts and that these can have similar characteristics. They identify...
Level description | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing
Students listen to and use appropriate interaction skills to respond to others in a familiar environment. They can identify rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words. Students understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences. They identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar...
Level description | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening
By the end of Level A, students react to a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They respond to images of familiar people, objects or events. They fleetingly maintain eye contact with a person or object. They enjoy reading material as it is being read/experienced...
Level description | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing
Students listen to and react to some familiar objects, people, words and sounds within the environment by turning head, looking, reaching out and/or vocalising. They respond to their name and to familiar items when named. Students show an interest in others and an awareness of everyday social...
Level description | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening