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• English: Level C achievement standards - Writing

  When writing, students add writing such as scribble to label or comment on drawings, and imitate writing words and sentences. They express and record their wants and needs through a word, a picture or symbol selection. They demonstrate fine motor grasp and manipulating skills such as moving, picking...

  Level description | English | Level C | Writing

• VCEALL543

  Demonstrate basic keyboard skills

  Elaborations

  • locating letters on a keyboard
  • typing letters and words, copying from a print text

  VCEALL543 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL477

  Spell most words accurately, drawing on a range of strategies but with some invented spelling still evident

  Elaborations

  • learning an expanding repertoire of sight words from shared texts and classroom activities
  • drawing on knowledge of letter–sound relationships and common spelling patterns to spell new words

  VCEALL477 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA076

  Explore similarities and differences between letters by shape and size and match some letters with their name or sound

  Elaborations

  • tracing and exploring letter-like shapes and patterns
  • learning to identify the written form of their name

  VCELA076 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA146

  Recognise all upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound that each letter represents

  Elaborations

  • recognising and saying the name and most common sound made by each upper and lower case letter of the alphabet, including consonants and short vowel sounds, such as /a/ in cat
  • using familiar and common letters in handwritten and digital communications

  VCELA146 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language

• English: Level C achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level C, students listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They identify the main character or event in a familiar text using visual images from the text. They participate in interactive stories and repeat or activate a short phrase...

  Level description | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level BL achievement standards - Writing

  At Level BL students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through written, drawn, copied or dictated texts. They contribute to whole-class or small-group shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness that written texts in English are presented according to certain conventions...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level BL | Writing

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level B1 achievement standards - Writing

  At Level B1 students write and present simple texts for a variety of basic classroom and personal purposes. With support, they communicate familiar ideas, events and experiences, writing simple narratives, recounts, descriptions and reports. Students use some of the basic structures and features...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Writing

• VCELA218

  Recognise most letter–sound matches including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel digraphs and common long vowels, and understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations

  Elaborations

  • recognising when some letters are silent, for example knife, listen, castle, and providing the sound for less common sound-letter matches, for example ‘tion’

  VCELA218 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA156

  Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters and recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences

  Elaborations

  • pointing to the letters and the punctuation in a text
  • commenting on punctuation encountered in the everyday texts, for example ‘That’s the letter that starts my name’, ‘The name of my family and my town has a capital letter’

  VCELA156 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Language

• English: Level 1 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised. They are able to read...

  Level description | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing

• 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

• VCELY160

  Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

  Elaborations

  • using image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and web-based texts
  • using speaking, writing and drawing to represent and communicate personal responses to ideas and events experienced through texts
  • creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts
  • using beginning concepts about print, sound–letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts

  VCELY160 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literacy

• VCEALL319

  Use basic punctuation, such as full stops and capital letters, appropriately

  Elaborations

  • consistently using capital letters to begin sentences and names
  • consistently using a full stop to end a sentence
  • correcting capital letters and full stops when reviewing own or others’ writing

  VCEALL319 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA086

  Know their written name (as a grapheme) and match the letters in their name

  Elaborations

  • matching letters that are the same
  • recognising that letters and numbers are different
  • learning to speak and communicate using simple sentence starters

  VCELA086 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELY301

  Handwrite using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity

  Elaborations

  • using handwriting fluency with speed for a wide range of tasks

  VCELY301 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Literacy

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level A1 achievement standards - Writing

  At Level A1 students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through drawings, copied writing, dictated texts and their own basic writing, showing evidence of a developing understanding of the writing process. They contribute to shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Writing

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level A2 achievement standards - Writing

  At Level A2 students communicate ideas, events and experiences through simple texts based on familiar spoken and written language. They write for a variety of personal and classroom purposes, using known and modelled structures and features. They write everyday texts and simple stories, recounts...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Writing

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

  At Level B2 students write for a range of purposes on familiar topics. They write simple, organised texts demonstrating a developing use of specific vocabulary and simple sentence structures. Their writing demonstrates an understanding of the purposes of common text types, and their structures...

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

• VCEALA219

  Understand the difference between writing and drawing, and that writing changes according to context and purpose

  Elaborations

  • pointing to pictures and words when prompted
  • understanding that English writing consists of words formed by letters, and sentences made up of words

  VCEALA219 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness