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• VCEALA220

  Create basic texts, with support and modelling

  Elaborations

  • copying parts of a text and filling gaps with personal details or topic information
  • rewriting own text into a new format, for example by adding headings and images

  VCEALA220 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA380

  Create a small range of texts based on modelling

  Elaborations

  • creating a small range of texts for different purposes, such as a report, narrative or simple argument
  • transforming texts into new formats using a model text, for example rewriting an interview into a short report
  • incorporating information and ideas from personal experience, classroom discussion and some familiar classroom texts

  VCEALA380 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL734

  Create, edit and navigate simple digital texts

  Elaborations

  • creating a small range of digital texts, including documents, slides, tables and simple graphs
  • formatting texts simply, for example using font styles, text alignment, dot points
  • reading menus or links in order to navigate a website

  VCEALL734 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL730

  Use vocabulary to create nuance, mood and feeling

  Elaborations

  • choosing vocabulary purposefully for particular effect, for example using some learnt colloquial or idiomatic phrases and humour appropriately
  • showing awareness of social and cultural sensibilities in choice of synonyms, such as ‘plump’ versus ‘fat’, ‘people’ versus ‘humans’

  VCEALL730 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL604

  Use emerging language to create desired effects

  Elaborations

  • combining known words to create degrees of emphasis or nuance, for example ‘very, very sad’
  • using vocabulary that is familiar or common in texts
  • recording frequently used vocabulary in a personal word list

  VCEALL604 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELT297

  Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

  Elaborations

  • collaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points of drama in the plot

  VCELT297 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Literature

• VCEALA300

  Create short, simple texts for particular purposes, with some support and modelling

  Elaborations

  • using learnt text structures or model texts to begin writing independently
  • creating simple responses to texts, for example replying to a letter or stating a personal opinion about an issue in a video clip
  • building on feedback from previous writing tasks to improve accuracy and extend sophistication in writing

  VCEALA300 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC527

  Combine writing and drawing to create a short, simple text about a familiar topic

  Elaborations

  • drawing pictures with some detail of the participants, location and actions of an event
  • writing a short, simple text, such as a recount of a personal experience

  VCEALC527 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL672

  Develop a small range of skills to create and navigate simple digital texts

  Elaborations

  • typing short original texts using letters, common punctuation and symbols
  • editing texts in simple ways, including deleting or inserting words
  • using functions such as zoom or search to read text on a screen
  • following step-by-step instructions to navigate a digital text using menu items or links

  VCEALL672 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL475

  Create mood and feeling through the selection of appropriate vocabulary and idiom

  Elaborations

  • choosing vocabulary to express shades of meaning, for example choosing for effect ‘cloudy’, ‘gloomy’ or ‘bleak’
  • understanding differences between specialised and colloquial language, for example ‘feline’, ‘cat’ and ‘moggy’
  • using some idioms learnt from reading and viewing, in creative or personal writing

  VCEALL475 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL400

  Use a small range of software functions to create simple digital texts

  Elaborations

  • using a keyboard to type capital and lower-case letters, numbers, basic punctuation marks and symbols
  • typing letters and words, copying from a print text or typing short original texts
  • using a range of editing and formatting functions, such as inserting or deleting text, using font styles and alignment
  • inserting images and tables

  VCEALL400 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL733

  Use punctuation marks to create effects in writing, such as pauses and emphasis

  Elaborations

  • using a range of punctuation consistently, such as full stops, commas, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, apostrophes
  • using commas to indicate pauses and separate clauses
  • using punctuation to create effects in writing, such as commas or ellipses to indicate pauses, exclamation marks to emphasise a point
  • using correct punctuation for direct speech and quotations most of the time

  VCEALL733 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL174

  Create original expressions, substituting new words in learnt patterns or formulas

  Elaborations

  • combining learnt words and phrases in original ways, such as ‘It’s time to go football’, ‘It’s time to go eat’

  VCEALL174 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL393

  Use a number of common conjunctions to link ideas to create compound and complex sentences

  Elaborations

  • constructing compound sentences with an expanding range of coordinating conjunctions (such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’), for example ‘I caught the train and then walked to the beach but I didn’t go swimming’
  • constructing complex sentences using some common subordinating conjunctions (such as ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘when’), for example ‘When Sam opened the door, her puppy ran to greet her’, ‘He can’t drink milk because he is allergic’

  VCEALL393 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELT205

  Discuss how authors create characters using language and images

  Elaborations

  • identifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts, and how spiritual beings are represented in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories
  • identifying some features of characters and how particular words and images convey qualities of their nature, for example some characters are portrayed as shy, others adventurous
  • discussing the characters of fictional animals and how they relate to those of humans

  VCELT205 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT265

  Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts

  Elaborations

  • creating visual and multimodal texts based on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or Asian literature, applying one or more visual elements to convey the intent of the original text
  • creating multimodal texts that combine visual images, sound effects, music and voice overs to convey settings and events in a fantasy world

  VCELT265 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT298

  Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

  Elaborations

  • drawing upon literary texts they have encountered and experimenting with changing particular aspects, for example the time or place of the setting, adding characters or changing their personalities, or offering an alternative point of view on key ideas

  VCELT298 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT327

  Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

  Elaborations

  • drawing upon fiction elements in a range of model texts - for example main idea, characterisation, setting (time and place), narrative point of view; and devices, for example figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification), as well as non-verbal conventions in digital and screen texts - in order to experiment with new, creative ways of communicating ideas, experiences and stories in literary texts

  VCELT327 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT355

  Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts

  Elaborations

  • selecting and using sensory language to convey a vivid picture of places, feelings and events in a semi-structured verse form

  VCELT355 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT386

  Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts

  Elaborations

  • using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text in a new situation
  • imagining a character’s life events (for example misadventures organised retrospectively to be presented as a series of flashbacks in scripted monologue supported by single images), making a sequel or prequel or rewriting an ending
  • creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary

  VCELT386 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Writing | Literature