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• VCEALL539

  Write some common words that are already known orally

  Elaborations

  • using new vocabulary, incorporating familiar oral language, personally significant words and common terms
  • retrieving vocabulary from classroom charts, familiar texts and personal word lists

  VCEALL539 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL285

  Use knowledge of base words to read new forms

  Elaborations

  • attempting to read new forms of familiar words, and self-correcting using knowledge of base words and common morphemes, such as ‘walk, walked, walks’

  VCEALL285 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL520

  Group familiar words according to their meaning or subject matter

  Elaborations

  • categorising words based on similarities and differences in meaning or topic

  VCEALL520 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL129

  Recognise a small range of familiar words in different contexts

  Elaborations

  • using previous knowledge to read familiar words and phrases in unfamiliar texts, such as words from a high-frequency word list, and sentence starters such as ‘Once upon a time …’, ‘Today is …’
  • recognising familiar words and collocations, such as ‘the big bad wolf’, in different contexts
  • recognising some common prefixes and suffixes, such as ‘un–’ and ‘–er’, and how they change the meaning of words

  VCEALL129 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL254

  Use a range of learnt word patterns for appropriate purposes

  Elaborations

  • using formulas for a range of purposes, including asking questions, supporting social interaction or self-expression, such as ‘What’s the time?’, ‘Oh, no!’, ‘Excellent work’, ‘Well done’
  • using longer formulaic constructions to articulate needs, such as ‘Can I eat lunch?’, ‘I want to go toilet’

  VCEALL254 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL045

  Rely on content words to understand the main idea in a text

  Elaborations

  • recognising common or learnt words in class texts
  • suggesting the topic of a text based on understanding content words in a title

  VCEALL045 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL732

  Employ a range of strategies to spell words with increasing accuracy

  Elaborations

  • applying knowledge of spelling conventions and phonic knowledge to new words, for example to distinguish between ‘mat’ and ‘mate’
  • learning an expanding repertoire of sight words from shared texts and classroom activities
  • referring to print and digital charts, dictionaries and texts to check and confirm spelling

  VCEALL732 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL230

  Write sentences that may not follow standard word order

  Elaborations

  • writing with some errors in word order, such as ‘I saw a car blue’

  VCEALL230 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL775

  Use contextual cues to interpret difficult words

  Elaborations

  • predicting meaning of new words based on knowledge of the base word, such as ‘educate’, ‘uneducated’, ‘education’
  • inferring the meaning of an unfamiliar word by using contextual information such as the topic of the text, meaning of adjacent sentences and meanings of familiar words in the same sentence

  VCEALL775 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL755

  Use words with multiple meanings across curriculum areas

  Elaborations

  • using a range of vocabulary learnt from different curriculum areas in spoken texts, such as discussions, presentations
  • using different specialist and everyday meanings of words, such as using ‘state’ in reference to a territory, a state of matter and a state of affairs

  VCEALL755 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL749

  Produce extended speech, using connectives and signal words

  Elaborations

  • extending and elaborating in spoken texts by giving detail such as cause, contrast, evidence
  • using a range of connectives to indicate relationships (such as time, sequence, result, contrast and addition), for example ‘unless’, ‘in that case’, ‘however’, ‘this shows …’

  VCEALL749 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL259

  Respond to key words in many common instructions

  Elaborations

  • carrying out common instructions, such as ‘Open the windows’, ‘Bring your work’, ‘Use the coloured pencils’
  • clarifying instructions before acting, by recasting key words (‘Open them?’, ‘These pencils?’) or by indicating the objects

  VCEALL259 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL516

  Sequence words to make simple, familiar sentences

  Elaborations

  • putting a jumbled sentence from a familiar text into the correct order
  • choosing the correct word to complete a simple cloze or sentence stem

  VCEALL516 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL155

  Use high-frequency words encountered in classroom activities

  Elaborations

  • spelling accurately high-frequency words and words learnt in class, such as ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘is’, ‘it’
  • referring to classroom charts and personal vocabulary lists to access topic words
  • using sound or visual features to spell new words, for example ‘evry’

  VCEALL155 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA028

  Respond to different sounds and words used in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to people communicating and playing with words
  • being exposed to a variety of different rhymes, syllables and sounds
  • observing the connection between everyday words and objects
  • reacting to familiar voices and preferred sounds

  VCELA028 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA050

  Recognise the connection between an object, image and spoken word

  Elaborations

  • learning that objects and actions are represented by a word or image
  • using an associated picture/image to request a familiar object, action or event

  VCELA050 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Writing | Language

• VCELA088

  Know the beginning sounds (onset) of familiar words

  Elaborations

  • exploring sounds and how they are combined to make words
  • knowing how to copy/imitate words and sounds using voice or personalised communication system

  VCELA088 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA016

  React to different sounds, and words, and respond to visual text

  Elaborations

  • encountering various types of text, genre and modes and their structure and organisation
  • reacting to objects and events within the environment
  • exploring how sounds stop and start, and can be long or short
  • responding to familiar people and objects, for example acknowledgement by looking at, or reaching towards, a desired object

  VCELA016 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA312

  Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals

  Elaborations

  • learning that many complex words were originally hyphenated but have become ‘prefixed’ as in ‘uncommon’, ‘renew’ ‘email’ and ‘refine’
  • talking about how suffixes change over time and new forms are invented to reflect changing attitudes to gender, for example ‘policewoman’, ‘salesperson’; ‘air hostess’/‘steward’ or ‘flight attendant’

  VCELA312 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA217

  Learn some generalisations for adding suffixes to words

  Elaborations

  • joining discussion about how a suffix affects meaning, for example uncomfortable, older, and division, and investigating the ways words change when suffixes are added, for example, dropping the final 'e' when '-ing' is added

  VCELA217 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language