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• VCEALA683

  Explain the home language meaning of unfamiliar English words and phrases to home language peers

  Elaborations

  • assisting home language peers through English and shared languages by explaining words and concepts
  • collaborating with home language peers to access resources such as bilingual dictionaries or online translation tools

  VCEALA683 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA658

  Revise text at the word, sentence or whole-text level, based on teacher or peer feedback

  Elaborations

  • responding to feedback at each stage of planning, drafting and editing to make improvements to text structure and language
  • employing a range of strategies to check and correct spelling, for example using the spellchecker function in a software application, dictionaries, word lists

  VCEALA658 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC006

  Follow simple instructions in familiar school routines by relying on key words and non-verbal communication and context

  Elaborations

  • identifying key words and phrases that refer to familiar objects in the classroom
  • recognising familiar action verbs in instructions, such as ‘Line up’, ‘Stand up’, ‘Sit down’
  • relying on contextual information, for example the teacher’s gestures, the actions of peers

  VCEALC006 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALL107

  Identify key words and ideas from short, familiar spoken texts supported by context

  Elaborations

  • recognising familiar and learnt vocabulary in short spoken texts
  • understanding key information in short texts about a topic studied in class, and responding to questions, such as naming characters from a story, identifying an animal illustration based on a description
  • using contextual information, including images, word lists or print texts, to identify key words and ideas

  VCEALL107 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL584

  Use contextual cues to work out the literal meaning of unknown words in a simple text

  Elaborations

  • using information in the text, such as images or descriptions, to deduce meanings
  • using background or content knowledge to deduce meanings of words or phrases

  VCEALL584 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL564

  Use words from lexical sets related to communicative need, interest, experience or learning

  Elaborations

  • recalling and applying a range of words related to familiar topics, such as words related to family, school, colours, numbers, days, months
  • using common synonyms (such as ‘hot’ and ‘warm’) and antonyms (such as ‘fast’ and ‘slow’) to communicate a range of meanings
  • connecting a small number of words from a lexical set, for example ‘soccer’, ‘ball’, ‘team’, ‘match’

  VCEALL564 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL499

  Recognise and use common words relating to familiar class routines, people, experiences and interests

  Elaborations

  • identify, clarify and rehearse words, referring to classroom charts and personal vocabulary lists
  • using common and familiar vocabulary in speech, for example in conversation, in class discussion or when answering questions

  VCEALL499 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL415

  Respond appropriately to structures through word order and vocabulary rather than through intonation

  Elaborations

  • understanding vocabulary and word order for structures, such as questions, statements and negation
  • using question words rather than intonation to indicate a question; for example ‘Do you …?’, ‘What is …?’, ‘Can anybody …?’

  VCEALL415 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL583

  Recognise words for everyday items and actions, and topic-specific vocabulary that has been taught

  Elaborations

  • recognising in an unfamiliar text topic-specific vocabulary that has been taught
  • recognising words commonly used in classroom speech, when printed on signs, on notices or in classroom texts

  VCEALL583 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL649

  Use syntactic, logical and cultural cues to work out the meaning of unknown words in a text

  Elaborations

  • using other information in the text, such as syntactical patterns (for example the arrangement of words in sentences ‘The boy jumped happily’ and ‘The boy happily jumped’), consistent use of words and cultural cues to deduce meanings
  • drawing on home language knowledge of culture to deduce meanings of words or phrases

  VCEALL649 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL026

  Recognise and use words from lexical sets related to immediate communicative need, interest or experience

  Elaborations

  • use common words related to immediate needs, such as colours, numbers, days, family- and school-specific word sets
  • using a single word for a variety of purposes, for example using ‘book’ to mean ‘This is my book’, ‘Where is her book?’, ‘I’d like to borrow that book’
  • referring to classroom charts and personal vocabulary lists to identify, clarify and rehearse words
  • using a range of strategies to learn new words and phrases, such as private rehearsal, personal vocabulary lists, use in own speech and writing

  VCEALL026 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA087

  Use spoken words, sign or Augmentative Alternative Communication System to communicate and understand that images can be used to write and express ideas

  Elaborations

  • learning to use high-frequency images and words, for example the student’s own name, ‘stop’
  • using spoken words, articulating most of the sounds
  • learning that images/signs can be combined to make a word
  • listening to sounds and words and reproducing them using a personalised communication system

  VCELA087 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA224

  Understand how texts are made cohesive by the use of resources, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms

  Elaborations

  • exploring how texts develop their themes and ideas, building information by connecting similar and contrasting dissimilar things
  • mapping examples of word associations in texts, for example words that refer to the main character

  VCELA224 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELA325

  Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts

  Elaborations

  • moving from general, ‘all-purpose’ words, for example ‘cut’ to more specific words, for example ‘slice’, ‘dice’, ‘fillet’, ‘segment’

  VCELA325 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | Language

• VCELA452

  Understand that Standard Australian English is a living language within which the creation and loss of words and the evolution of usage is ongoing

  Elaborations

  • identifying some of the changes in the grammar of English over time, for example from thee and thou to you
  • exploring examples of ‘Globish’ English

  VCELA452 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA475

  Understand how to use knowledge of the spelling system to spell unusual and technical words accurately

  Elaborations

  • spelling words based on uncommon Greek and Latin roots, for example 'ec-centric' using the uncommon Latin prefix ec- meaning 'out of'

  VCELA475 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Language

• VCELA204

  Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words

  Elaborations

  • recognising words that start with a given sound, end with a given sound, have a given medial sound, rhyme with a given word
  • recognising and producing rhyming words
  • replacing sounds in spoken words, for example replace the ‘m’ in 'mat' with 'c' to form a new word 'cat', deleting the 'f' from 'farm' to form a new word 'arm', and substituting the 't' in 'pet' with 'n' to form a new word 'pen'
  • saying sounds in order for a given spoken word (for example f/i/sh, th/i/s)

  VCELA204 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA238

  Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution

  Elaborations

  • separating and blending more difficult sounds when saying words, for example 'squint' and 'watch'
  • generating new words by deleting one phoneme and replacing it with another, for example substituting 'b' in 'back' with 's' to make 'sack'

  VCELA238 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA003

  Experience sentences being used to express ideas and information and responds to different words, sounds and noise

  Elaborations

  • experiencing sentences being communicated in different modes to express ideas, e.g. words, keywords, visuals, or sign
  • turning attention towards the spoken word of a familiar other
  • exploring how noises stop and start and can be long or short
  • tracking images, actions and objects moving horizontally and vertically

  VCELA003 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA097

  Use words and images to make a request, indicate a choice, recount information, and express a feeling

  Elaborations

  • exploring and matching everyday words, signs and images to objects, events and places
  • using an ever-widening vocabulary associated with familiar routines and actions

  VCELA097 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language