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• VCEALL082

  Use basic keyboard skills to write personally significant words and simple modelled sentences

  Elaborations

  • locating letters, numbers and common symbols accurately on a keyboard
  • using basic functions of a keyboard, for example using the shift key and space bar
  • typing letters, numbers, symbols and words, copying from a print text
  • typing familiar words, such as own name, without copying

  VCEALL082 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA040

  Recognise familiar objects and images in stories and informative texts

  Elaborations

  • associating an image with a word, symbol or object
  • identifying and communicating the names of familiar objects and people in an image
  • scanning an image or texts for specific objects, word, sound or image

  VCELA040 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY116

  Identify some familiar texts and their use in the community

  Elaborations

  • recognising a familiar event from a book, card or symbol
  • recognising the purpose of some everyday signs, for example ‘stop’, ‘phone’, ‘bus stop’

  VCELY116 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCGGC075

  Represent data and the location of places and their characteristics by constructing tables and simple graphs and maps of appropriate scale that conform to cartographic conventions of border, scale, legend, title and north point

  Elaborations

  • creating tables or picture and column graphs to show patterns in data collected from observations or other sources about the similarities and differences between places
  • using maps of vegetation for Australia, Africa and South America to compare the most common types of vegetation in each continents
  • making a plan of the classroom or home, using pictorial symbols
  • annotating a map to show selected natural and human characteristics of Australia, Africa or South America using the appropriate cartographic conventions including map symbols and north point
  • constructing maps to show the features of places, using basic cartographic conventions including map symbols and north point

  VCGGC075 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCAVAE034

  Explore how artists use materials, techniques, technologies and processes to realise their intentions in artworks

  Elaborations

  • investigating the viewpoints of several artists and how they express a theme, concept or subject matter in different contexts and using different styles with different materials and technologies
  • exploring how artists have used different materials and symbols to express cultural identity for example, identifying implied meaning through the symbols in the artwork, such as a universal symbol that reflects contemporary youth culture, or the symbols of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • selecting contextual information about artists, artworks and audiences as inspiration for their artworks
  • discussing and documenting their choices of expression to strengthen meaning and viewpoints in their artwork
  • researching artworks that provide different ideas and concepts based on ideological views and institutional theories of design and art practice, for example, the Bauhaus movement, Chinese social realist painting, Greek classical sculpture
  • applying critical theories to the analysis and interpretation of artworks, for example, identifying explicit and implicit meanings in artworks

  VCAVAE034 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCCCTM007

  Consider ways to express and describe thinking activity, including the expression of feelings about learning, both to others and self

  Elaborations

  • identifying words to describe learning experiences, for example ‘learning looks like/sounds like/feels like’
  • drawing and displaying pictures or symbols to represent the meaning of words associated with thinking activities such as ‘watching, wondering, finding, trying’

  VCCCTM007 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM040

  Consider a range of strategies to represent ideas and explain and justify thinking processes to others

  Elaborations

  • identifying different ways to represent data and justifying a preferred way based on what will support purposeful thinking
  • identifying different ways to represent ideas such as storyboards, mock-ups and/or symbolically, and discuss their different applications

  VCCCTM040 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8 | Meta-Cognition

• VCEALA065

  Use some conventions from home language when writing

  Elaborations

  • using some conventions from home language script, such as writing right to left or using letters or symbols from home language
  • using invented spelling that may draw on home language sounds or on own pronunciation

  VCEALA065 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL451

  Create, edit and navigate a simple digital text, including visual, multimodal and interactive texts

  Elaborations

  • editing texts in simple ways, including deleting or inserting letters, words, punctuation and symbols
  • recognising icons used for common functions, such as search, download or print
  • reading menus or links in order to navigate a website

  VCEALL451 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL239

  Demonstrate basic keyboard skills

  Elaborations

  • identifying basic letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation marks on a keyboard
  • placing a cursor in the correct position on a document page
  • using a mouse to scroll through a document
  • copying basic words from a text

  VCEALL239 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA198

  Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that many people may use sign systems to communicate with others

  Elaborations

  • recognising how and where signs and symbols are used and placed in students’ school and community
  • learning some signs in Auslan and finding out about ‘Hear a Book’ and Braille technologies for hearing and visually impaired people

  VCELA198 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA131

  Use different ways to express needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • using communication systems to express preferences and make requests and comments
  • recognising that symbols and signs can be used in conjunction with spoken language to communicate ideas
  • using words, signs or images to express needs and feelings

  VCELA131 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELY126

  Review own text and make changes during shared editing

  Elaborations

  • using delete and Caps Lock functions during shared editing of their own typing
  • making alternative selections of images and audio used, including music, during shared editing
  • checking their name, some patterns and symbols for size

  VCELY126 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Literacy

• VCGGK056

  Places used regularly in the community, their location, activities undertaken in this place and frequency of visits

  Elaborations

  • using pictures, symbols, labels to identify features or spaces in a significant place
  • beginning to use special, locational and directional vocabulary
  • investigating places, activities and frequency of visits
  • exploring places and reason for visiting different places in the community

  VCGGK056 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCMSP180

  Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in illustrating data features including variability

  Elaborations

  • interpreting data representations in the media and other forums in which symbols represent more than one data value
  • suggesting questions that can be answered by a given data display and using the display to answer questions

  VCMSP180 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Statistics and Probability | Data representation and interpretation

• VCNRU117

  Examine how the language being studied and culture is variously expressed in different linguistic and cultural settings, identifying and explaining variations

  Elaborations

  • discussing elements of language and culture of the language being studied and how they have become part of Australian lifestyles
  • identifying and comparing the function and power of cultural representations, such as symbols and stories, for example, flags, Dreaming and the Dreamtime

  VCNRU117 | Languages | Non-Roman Alphabet Languages | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCPSCSE066

  Name emotions shown by self and match these emotions to familiar events or experiences

  Elaborations

  • using words, signs or symbols to name emotions of self or others
  • responding to the emotions of others and indicating the immediate and present causes of other’s emotional reactions
  • matching emotion to a recent familiar event or experience

  VCPSCSE066 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions

• VCSIS028

  Use pictures and words to describe observations and findings and begin to categorise objects

  Elaborations

  • using pictures, photos, symbols and concrete objects to record observations about the weather
  • beginning to categorise some familiar substances with similar properties related to a sense, for example, hard or soft, rough or smooth

  VCSIS028 | Science | Level C | Science Inquiry Skills | Recording and processing

• VCSSU097

  Differences between elements, compounds and mixtures can be described by using a particle model

  Elaborations

  • modelling the arrangement of particles in elements and compounds
  • recognising that elements and simple compounds can be represented by symbols and formulas
  • explaining why elements and compounds can be represented by chemical formulas while mixtures cannot

  VCSSU097 | Science | Levels 7 and 8 | Science Understanding | Chemical sciences

• VCEALL479

  Gather and present information both in text and visually using an appropriate software application

  Elaborations

  • typing original or copied texts accurately, including a range of punctuation and symbols
  • using more advanced writing and formatting functions in software applications, such as spellchecker, font styles and paragraph formatting
  • using functions to format and edit images and tables, with guidance

  VCEALL479 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features