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• English: Level B description

  In Level B, students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events. Students begin to understand that communication...

  Level description | English

• VCELY046

  Attend to texts that have a variety of contexts

  Elaborations

  • comparing and identifying things that are the ‘same’ and ‘different’ within texts
  • exploring texts with the same theme to identify things that are the ‘same’ and ‘different’

  VCELY046 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELT079

  Identify characteristics of familiar literary texts including poetry

  Elaborations

  • identifying similar types of literary text and discussing the topics that connect them, for example, animal stories
  • clapping, communicating using alternative and augmentative communication system or repeating a short poem or rhyme

  VCELT079 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• English | English: Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It is through the study of English that individuals learn to analyse, understand, communicate and build relationships...

  Overview material | English

• VCELT448

  Create literary texts, including hybrid texts, that innovate on aspects of other texts, including through the use of parody, allusion and appropriation

  Elaborations

  • creating a contemporary parody of an historical text to highlight changes in societal attitudes

  VCELT448 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Literature

• English: Level C achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and interact with others. They use particular greetings to acknowledge people, respond with ‘yes’, ‘no’ or single words to indicate understanding and use a few words and simple phrases. They can share their favourite items or experience with a small group...

  Level description | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening

• VCEALA465

  Follow a simple writing process, including planning, drafting and revision

  Elaborations

  • talking to language peers in home language or English to generate and refine ideas before writing
  • recording structured notes or a plan in home language and/or English before writing, for example writing dot points under headings or filling in a planning template
  • revising writing using a range of resources, such as feedback from peers and teacher, model texts and checklists

  VCEALA465 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC697

  Extract information from a range of visual representations, including tables, graphs and diagrams

  Elaborations

  • connecting information in visual representations and print texts
  • using captions, labels and topic knowledge to identify specific features on a diagram or illustration
  • interpreting bar, column and pie charts to compare different results

  VCEALC697 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL693

  Use specific curriculum area language, including technical terms

  Elaborations

  • incorporating learnt vocabulary into spoken texts, such as discussions, presentations
  • using technical terms (such as ‘photosynthesis’, ‘expiration’) and sub-technical terms (such as ‘process’, ‘analysis’)

  VCEALL693 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELY049

  Attend to imaginative and informative texts including visual schedules in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • attending to familiar images and objects in texts
  • recognising some visual cues to complete an activity

  VCELY049 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELY012

  React to a range of texts including visual, audio and print text

  Elaborations

  • experiencing multimodal texts and discussions on their meaning and characteristics
  • using sounds, gesture and facial features in response to their environment
  • reacting to interactions, experiences and activities

  VCELY012 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELY163

  Construct texts using software including word processing programs

  Elaborations

  • using simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu

  VCELY163 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literacy

• VCELA295

  Understand how to use spelling patterns and generalisations including syllabification, letter combinations including double letters, and morphemic knowledge to build word families

  Elaborations

  • using phonological knowledge (for example long vowel patterns in multi-syllabic words) and consonant clusters (for example 'straight', 'throat', 'screen', 'squawk')
  • using visual knowledge (for example diphthongs in more complex words and other ambiguous vowel sounds, as in 'oy', 'oi', 'ou', 'ow', 'ould', 'u', 'ough', 'au', 'aw'), silent beginning consonant patterns (for example 'gn' and 'kn')
  • applying generalisations, such as doubling (for example 'running') and 'e'-drop (for example 'hoping')

  VCELA295 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Language

• VCELA142

  Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, including directionality

  Elaborations

  • learning about print: direction of print and return sweep, spaces between words
  • learning that Standard Australian English in written texts is read from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and that direction of print may differ in other cultures, for example Japanese texts
  • learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts
  • learning about simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu

  VCELA142 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• English: Level 3 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 3, students understand how content can be organised using different text structures depending on the purpose of the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary choices are used for different effects. They read texts that contain varied sentence structures...

  Level description | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing

• VCEALL102

  Apply some grammatical rules but may overgeneralise for irregular forms

  Elaborations

  • expressing simple questions mostly accurately, including ‘wh–’ questions such as ‘Where did you live before?’ or yes/no questions such as ‘Is that my book?’
  • expressing statements and commands mostly accurately, such as ‘She went home’, ‘Please give it to me’
  • using correct verb and noun endings with some consistency, such as ‘–ing’, ‘–ed’, ‘–s’
  • overgeneralising some rules, such as formation of plurals (for example ‘mouses’) and past tenses (for example ‘swimmed’, ‘buyed’)
  • understanding some common phrases or clauses in both their full and contracted forms, such as ‘I’m’ and ‘I am’; ‘you’re’ and ‘you are’

  VCEALL102 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level B2 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  At Level B2 students communicate and learn English in predictable social and learning situations, understanding some de-contextualised English and expressing simple messages in basic English. They negotiate simple transactions and ask and answer basic questions on familiar topics, using familiar...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening

• English | English as an Additional Language (EAL): Structure

  The English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum is organised by pathways, language modes and strands.

  Pathways

  The EAL curriculum is a continuum structured as three EAL pathways (A, B, C). Each pathway describes a different stage of English-language learning (early, mid and late), and...

  Overview material | English as an Additional Language (EAL)

• VCELY318

  Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning

  Elaborations

  • bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks
  • selecting and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information
  • using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies to access material on less familiar topics, skimming and scanning to check the pertinence of particular information to the topic and task
  • reading a wide range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for pleasure and to find and use information

  VCELY318 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCEALC424

  Access, interpret and evaluate information from a range of print and digital texts, including visual, multimodal and interactive

  Elaborations

  • following instructions to find the appropriate page in a book and identifying the topic and main ideas
  • comparing two simple websites on the same topic to choose the more useful one

  VCEALC424 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication