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• 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

• 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

• VCELY412

  Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on the validity of content and the credibility of sources, including finding evidence in the text for the author’s point of view

  Elaborations

  • reflecting on content by connecting and comparing information found in a text to knowledge sourced elsewhere
  • determining and applying criteria for evaluating the credibility of a website
  • explaining whether the author conveys meaning adequately, particularly in distinguishing fact from opinion

  VCELY412 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELY480

  Review, edit and refine own and others’ texts for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and effects

  Elaborations

  • reflecting on, critiquing and refining own texts prior to publishing for an authentic audience, such as uploading a movie to a website, contributing to an anthology, writing texts appropriate for the workplace, or delivering a presentation

  VCELY480 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Literacy

• VCEALA117

  Understand that the purpose of a text is reflected in its form

  Elaborations

  • identifying texts as factual or fictional, and comparing features such as content, layout, images
  • suggesting the purpose and audience of a range of common text types, such as picture book, supermarket catalogue, website, timetable
  • answering simple questions about the text, such as ‘Would this text be more useful for a parent or a child?’

  VCEALA117 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA573

  Identify the basic purposes and audiences of different print and digital news media texts

  Elaborations

  • categorising texts as fiction and non-fiction
  • suggesting the purpose and audience of a range of common news media texts, such as websites, news reports, opinion columns, persuasive letters
  • recognising the function of features of an instructional text, such as a title, illustrations, imperative verbs

  VCEALA573 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL042

  Recognise and explore different types of texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying and engaging with print and visual texts
  • exploring a small range of simple text types such as recounts, narratives, information reports
  • navigating different types of texts, for example turning the pages of a book, clicking links on a website, finding points of interest on a map

  VCEALL042 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL795

  Use a wide range of punctuation marks to add impact to writing

  Elaborations

  • producing texts in a range of digital formats, such as text documents, slides, infographics, simple websites, videos
  • using advanced writing and formatting functions in software applications, such as spellchecker, font styles, paragraph formatting
  • using software application functions to add, format and edit images and tables, with guidance

  VCEALL795 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL796

  Use a range of digital formats and images to enhance meaning and impact

  Elaborations

  • producing texts in a range of digital formats, such as text documents, slides, infographics, simple websites, videos
  • using advanced writing and formatting functions in software applications, such as spellchecker, font styles, paragraph formatting
  • using modal verbs, including with complex tenses, such as ‘They should not have to go’, ‘This needs to be considered’

  VCEALL796 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELY188

  Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, and identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

  Elaborations

  • comparing and discussing texts, identifying some features that distinguish those that ‘tell stories’ from those that ‘give opinions’
  • selecting texts for a particular purpose or task, for example a website that will give information about whales, a book that will tell a story about a possum

  VCELY188 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCEALA718

  Understand how the purpose and audience of a text can influence content and form

  Elaborations

  • designing layout and visual features to suit purpose and audience, for example using bright colours in an illustrated story for children
  • transforming texts to suit a different purpose or audience, for example converting a road safety website for learner drivers to a pamphlet for older drivers
  • discussing language choices with regard to purpose and audience, for example reflecting on word choices in a persuasive text

  VCEALA718 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL476

  Format texts appropriately for the purpose

  Elaborations

  • following a logical or conventional text structure, for example including a headline, byline, photograph and caption in a news story
  • adapting the basic structure of a text type to a range of media, for example formatting an information report as a document, poster or simple website
  • using a range of tools in a software application to format and lay out a digital text, for example using text boxes, font styles and image formatting

  VCEALL476 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features