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• VCEALL079

  Experiment with some familiar punctuation

  Elaborations

  • using basic punctuation some of the time, such as full stops at the end of sentences, capital letters to begin sentences and for names
  • writing capital and lower-case letters and full stops accurately when copying
  • beginning to copy more complex punctuation accurately, such as commas, question marks, exclamation marks, quotation marks

  VCEALL079 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

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

  The Level A1 curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to participate in routine and familiar exchanges in English with their peers. As a result, they begin to recognise the ways...

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

• VCEALL072

  Write simple repetitive modelled sentences

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of sentences copied from a model text, such as ‘I like …’, ‘I went to …’, ‘Today is …’
  • writing repetitive sentence beginnings, for example ‘I … Then I … Then I …’

  VCEALL072 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA063

  Reread own texts or sentences written by another

  Elaborations

  • reading aloud a text scribed by the teacher
  • copying out a corrected version of own text, for example with corrected spelling or capital letters

  VCEALA063 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL073

  Write sentences or phrases that reflect own oral structures

  Elaborations

  • writing simple strings of words that approximate sentences, such as ‘Go to school’, ‘Go home’, ‘Come from’
  • using the most common coordinating conjunctions (‘and’, ‘but’) to connect clauses, sometimes writing run-on sentences, such as ‘At school teacher teach us and we work and we play’
  • writing with some errors in word order, such as ‘I saw a car blue’

  VCEALL073 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA062

  Contribute ideas, words or sentences to a class or group shared story

  Elaborations

  • listening to the contributions of others and adding new or different ideas
  • making suggestions about the ideas to include in the text, for example the people and events to be included
  • drawing on familiar vocabulary and sentence structures to suggest expressions for shared writing

  VCEALA062 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC056

  Write simple sentences related to own experience or school context

  Elaborations

  • writing familiar words and strings of letters that approximate the pronunciation of words
  • completing sentences giving personal information, for example ‘My name is …’, ‘I have … people in my family’
  • recounting personal experiences in sequence using basic detail

  VCEALC056 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC032

  Identify familiar words and simple sentences and match them to images

  Elaborations

  • using images to discern the storyline of a text and predict individual words in texts about familiar topics
  • identifying the main character in an image
  • pointing to images of familiar words, for example ‘apple’, ‘girl’, ‘house’
  • matching a short description to an image, for example ‘a green fruit’

  VCEALC032 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL019

  Construct simple subject–verb–object sentences that mostly use present tense

  Elaborations

  • constructing basic sentences using subject–verb–object word order, but with non-standard word forms, for example ‘We buy house’
  • constructing short, simple statements showing subject–verb relations with varying accuracy, such as ‘He sick’, ‘Students go’

  VCEALL019 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL082

  Use basic keyboard skills to write personally significant words and simple modelled sentences

  Elaborations

  • locating letters, numbers and common symbols accurately on a keyboard
  • using basic functions of a keyboard, for example using the shift key and space bar
  • typing letters, numbers, symbols and words, copying from a print text
  • typing familiar words, such as own name, without copying

  VCEALL082 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• 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 A1 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  At Level A1 students read and engage with a wide range of short, simple, repetitive texts, including shared recounts and fictional and everyday texts. These texts may be in print or visual form.

  Students read in context some familiar words, phrases, numbers and signs. They complete simple...

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

• VCEALC055

  Copy well-known symbols, words, phrases or short texts

  Elaborations

  • tracing or copying letters, words and sentences written by the teacher
  • copying out a short text jointly constructed by the class
  • copying and completing short, formulaic sentences to describe familiar images, such as ‘This is a …’
  • making corrections to own writing when copying text

  VCEALC055 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC057

  Write a simple text that fulfils a function

  Elaborations

  • writing a simple description, recount or procedure after a shared class experience, for example a short text recounting making pancakes
  • writing the names of items depicted in images
  • copying and completing short, formulaic sentences to describe images, such as ‘This is a …’
  • choosing a sentence from a class text to use as a caption for an image

  VCEALC057 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL052

  Recognise capital letters, spaces and full stops

  Elaborations

  • showing awareness that words are separated by spaces, such as by pointing to words or counting words
  • pointing to capital letters and full stops in a text
  • pausing at full stops when reading aloud
  • using spaces to count words in a sentence or on a line
  • using capital letters and full stops to count sentences

  VCEALL052 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL071

  Label drawings of everyday personal activities using language learnt in the classroom

  Elaborations

  • using drawings as a basis for oral explanations or captioning using simple writing, such as ‘live here’, ‘play’, ‘study’
  • writing the names of items depicted in images
  • copying and completing short, formulaic sentences to describe images, such as ‘This is a …’
  • choosing a sentence from a class text to use as a caption for an image

  VCEALL071 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA059

  Respond to the terms ‘writing’ and ‘drawing’ appropriately

  Elaborations

  • following instructions to write or draw, such as ‘Write your name’, ‘Draw a face’
  • understanding that English writing consists of words formed by letters, and sentences comprising words

  VCEALA059 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA068

  Understand some terminology of writing in English and/or home language

  Elaborations

  • understanding some terminology of writing, such as ‘word’, ‘letter’, ‘sentence’, ‘space’, ‘full stop’
  • following simple instructions using writing terminology, for example ‘Write in capital letters’, ‘Leave a line in between’

  VCEALA068 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL049

  Recognise some letters of the alphabet

  Elaborations

  • recognising and naming some letters of the alphabet
  • identifying common letters in different words consistently, for example pointing to all the ‘t’s in a sentence
  • reading aloud the spelling of a word by naming the letters

  VCEALL049 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL044

  Understand and use simple metalanguage for books and reading

  Elaborations

  • understanding terminology such as ‘book’, ‘author’, ‘picture’, ‘word’
  • identifying and naming elements of book layout and aspects of reading, such as word, letter, page, title, cover
  • pointing to parts of a book in response to questions such as ‘What is the author’s name?’, ‘Find the start of the sentence’

  VCEALL044 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features