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• English: Level 10 description

  In Levels 9 and 10, students interact with peers, teachers, individuals, groups and community members in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments. They experience learning in familiar and unfamiliar contexts, including local community, vocational and global contexts.

  Students engage...

  Level description | English

• VCEALA765

  Read a range of sustained, complex texts

  Elaborations

  • choosing a range of texts, including fiction and non-fiction, and diverse issues and perspectives
  • identifying and responding to a range of cultural and literary perspectives and stereotypes in texts

  VCEALA765 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCELA371

  Investigate vocabulary typical of extended and more academic texts and the role of abstract nouns, classification, description and generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language

  Elaborations

  • identifying abstract nouns in a response to a literary text, noting those that are similar in meaning and how they demonstrate understanding of features of the text, for example characters

  VCELA371 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA414

  Understand how coherence is created in complex texts through devices like lexical cohesion, ellipsis, grammatical theme and text connectives

  Elaborations

  • interpreting complex sentence structures through reading aloud literary texts such as sonnets or plays
  • using cohesive devices when writing complex texts

  VCELA414 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Writing | Language

• VCELT372

  Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying stereotypes, prejudice and oversimplifications in texts
  • exploring ethical issues in literary texts drawing on a range of examples from the texts to illustrate and substantiate the views expressed

  VCELT372 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY317

  Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context

  Elaborations

  • identifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experiences the story) in a literary work, discussing the impact of first person narration on empathy and engagement

  VCELY317 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• English: Level B description

  In Level B, students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events. Students begin to understand that communication...

  Level description | English

• English | English: Learning in English

  Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills across the strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Each strand contributes its own distinctive goals, body of knowledge, history of ideas and interests to the study of English. 

  Learning about and using language

  In the Language...

  Overview material | English

• English: Level A description

  In Level A, students begin to engage, participate and receive communication with known adults, teachers and peers. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events....

  Level description | English

• English: Level C description

  In Level C, students communicate with known adults, teachers and peers. Students learn about social rules of communication and experience different ways to convey information to others. Students are provided with experiences that engage, support and extend their learning, including the use of...

  Level description | English

• English: Level D description

  In the Level D, students communicate with known adults, teachers and peers. Students are provided with experiences that engage, support and extend their learning, including the use of pictorial representations or other marks to express and record their ideas. Students communicate by using short...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 7 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students communicate with peers, teachers, individuals, groups and community members in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments. They experience learning in both familiar and unfamiliar contexts that relate to the school curriculum, local community, regional...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students interact with peers, teachers, individuals, groups and community members in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments. They experience learning in both familiar and unfamiliar contexts that relate to the school curriculum, local community, regional and...

  Level description | English

• VCELT150

  Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text

  Elaborations

  • identifying some features of culture related to characters and events in literary texts, for example dress, food and daily routines
  • listening, responding to and joining in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs

  VCELT150 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT264

  Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features

  Elaborations

  • drawing on literary texts read, viewed and listened to for inspiration and ideas, appropriating language to create mood and characterisation
  • innovating on texts read, viewed and listened to by changing the point of view, revising an ending or creating a sequel

  VCELT264 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT314

  Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences

  Elaborations

  • orally, in writing or using digital media, giving a considered interpretation and opinion about a literary text, recognising that one's view may not be shared by others and that others have equal claims to divergent views

  VCELT314 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT030

  Respond to images, sounds or actions within a multimodal text

  Elaborations

  • experiencing literature of various types and modes
  • experiencing the response of others to a variety of literary texts
  • reacting to images from various sources
  • reacting to texts that depict familiar events, people or characters

  VCELT030 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELY411

  Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying the meaning of a wide range of words, including technical and literary language in various contexts
  • using print and digital/online thesauruses and dictionaries of synonyms, antonyms and homonyms and subject-specific dictionaries

  VCELY411 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level A2 description

  The Level A2 curriculum supports students to expand their repertoire of spoken and written English. Students explore communication in predictable social situations. Students learn to identify key points in familiar topics and to develop their capacity to use images as cues to decode meaning.

  St...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL

• English: Level 2 description

  In Level 2, students communicate with peers, teachers, students from other classes, and community members.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as...

  Level description | English