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• VCEALL108

  Use words learnt from a range of classroom and social contexts

  Elaborations

  • using a range of words related to familiar topics, such as words related to family, school, colours, numbers, days, months
  • using words from lexical sets related to topics of conversation, such as words for favourite foods or pastimes
  • using words learnt from print texts, such as by asking what a word means, for example ‘I don’t understand. What’s “fete”?’

  VCEALL108 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL446

  Use knowledge of sentence structure and content to deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words

  Elaborations

  • using knowledge of sentence structure to deduce the part of speech or function of an unfamiliar word
  • deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words based on known ideas in the sentence or paragraph

  VCEALL446 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL262

  Use comprehensible pronunciation for a range of high-frequency words learnt in class

  Elaborations

  • developing comprehensible pronunciation through imitation and rehearsal
  • accurately pronouncing a range of high-frequency words used in classroom instructions, texts and interactions

  VCEALL262 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA062

  Recognise the connection between words, images, sounds and everyday objects

  Elaborations

  • recognising the words associated with classroom activities and actions
  • making choices as a way to explore the connection between an object and its spoken name, image or sign
  • making simple requests

  VCELA062 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA110

  Explore connection between words, objects and images in stories and informative texts

  Elaborations

  • learning that text can provide information about an image
  • understanding that words can be used to describe an image
  • learning that words and images can be used to tell a story about an event

  VCELA110 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA191

  Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes in word families

  Elaborations

  • building word families from common morphemes (for example 'play', 'plays', 'playing', 'played', 'playground')
  • using morphemes to read words (for example by recognising the 'stem' in words such as 'walk/ed')

  VCELA191 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• VCELA333

  Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time

  Elaborations

  • recognising that a knowledge of word origins is not only interesting in its own right, but that it extends students’ knowledge of vocabulary and spelling
  • exploring examples of words in which pronunciation, writing and meaning has changed over time, including words from a range of cultures

  VCELA333 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA348

  Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words

  Elaborations

  • noting how writers often substitute a general word for a more specific word already mentioned, thus creating a cohesive link between the words (for example, ‘Look at those apples. Can I take these big ones?’, where ‘ones’ substitutes for ‘apples’)
  • noting how writers often substitute a general word for a more specific word already mentioned, thus creating a cohesive link between the words (for example 'Look at those apples. Can I have one?')
  • recognising how cohesion can be developed through repeating key words or by using synonyms or antonyms
  • observing how relationships between concepts can be represented visually through similarity, contrast, juxtaposition, repetition, class-subclass diagrams, part-whole diagrams, cause-and-effect figures, visual continuities and discontinuities

  VCELA348 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Language

• VCELA145

  Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts

  Elaborations

  • talking about how a ‘different’ story is told if we read only the words, or only the pictures; and the story that words and pictures make when combined
  • exploring how the combination of print and images in texts create meaning

  VCELA145 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA094

  Recognise that words, images and actions have the same meaning across environments

  Elaborations

  • recognising and communicating the label for everyday objects
  • showing some of the ways to maintain an interaction between self and others using verbal- vocal exchange, sign or augmentative and alternative communication
  • recognising and following simple multi-word directions

  VCELA094 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCEALA357

  Use a simple English dictionary or class word list to find words, and/or check home language–English bilingual dictionary for meanings

  Elaborations

  • referring to word lists or charts to find specific vocabulary related to a topic
  • using a bilingual dictionary to find an English equivalent for a word known in home language
  • checking meaning in both home language and English before using a word in speech or writing

  VCEALA357 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCELA250

  Recognise most high-frequency words, know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and know some homophones and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word

  Elaborations

  • becoming familiar with most high-frequency sight words

  VCELA250 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA184

  Understand how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words, and that some high-frequency words have regular and irregular spelling components

  Elaborations

  • using strategies such as look-say-cover-write-check to learn an increasing number of high-frequency sight words recognised in texts, including words with regular spelling patterns such as 'them' and 'got' and irregular patterns such as 'one' and 'was'

  VCELA184 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Language

• VCEALL587

  Attempt to self-correct

  Elaborations

  • applying knowledge of letter–sound relationships and familiar letter patterns to predict pronunciation

  VCEALL587 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English | English as an Additional Language (EAL): Scope and Sequence

  The English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning structured as three pathways. The pathways are presented in scope and sequence charts to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning...

  Overview material | English as an Additional Language (EAL)

• VCEALA148

  Understand a small range of terminology of writing

  Elaborations

  • understanding terminology such as ‘letter’, ‘word’, ‘sentence’, ‘comma’
  • understanding a small range of more technical terminology in structured activities, such as underlining verbs in a short text
  • following instructions for writing, for example ‘Fill in your name’, ‘Write each sentence on a new line’

  VCEALA148 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• 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

• VCEALL125

  Understand and use a small range of metalanguage for elements of texts

  Elaborations

  • understanding terminology such as ‘author’, ‘title’, ‘letter’, ‘word’, ‘sentence’
  • locating and labelling features of a text, such as author, heading, diagram, blurb
  • identifying features of a text in answer to questions, for example ‘Who is the author of this book?’, ‘Where can we find the contents page?’

  VCEALL125 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL135

  Read familiar texts with some fluency

  Elaborations

  • reading aloud with some accuracy and confidence words that are familiar or contain familiar letter patterns
  • imitating teacher and peers to read short texts with accurate pronunciation, fluency, pauses and intonation
  • repeating a sentence with corrected pronunciation, intonation or pausing when prompted

  VCEALL135 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELT124

  Retell familiar text or event by sequencing images and simple statements

  Elaborations

  • identifying key images of a story
  • using two to three images in sequence to retell an event or familiar text

  VCELT124 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Literature