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• 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

• VCELA179

  Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

  Elaborations

  • talking about effective words that describe a place, person or event
  • learning how a sentence can be made more vivid by adding adjectives, adverbs and unusual verbs

  VCELA179 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA215

  Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words

  Elaborations

  • comparing two versions of the same story, for example ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, identifying how a character’s actions and reactions are depicted differently by different illustrators

  VCELA215 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELT405

  Understand and explain how combinations of words and images in texts are used to represent particular groups in society, and how texts position readers in relation to those groups

  Elaborations

  • recognising the similarities and differences between types of texts (for example a complex picture book and a feature film) in order to understand how different combinations of words and images lead readers to interpret visual texts in particular ways, according to audience, purpose and context

  VCELT405 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY269

  Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements

  Elaborations

  • using features of relevant technologies to plan, sequence, compose and edit multimodal texts

  VCELY269 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY302

  Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements

  Elaborations

  • identifying, selecting and using appropriate software programs for constructing text

  VCELY302 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY481

  Use a range of software, including word processing programs, confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to create, edit and publish texts, considering the identified purpose and the characteristics of the user

  Elaborations

  • designing a webpage that combines navigation, text, sound and moving and still images for a specific audience

  VCELY481 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Literacy

• English: Level B achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students look towards and attend to significant people for short periods of time. They attend to and respond to key word instructions. They imitate familiar words, spoken and/or signed. They use gesture or ‘yes’ or ‘no’ responses to answer a question or respond to an instruction. They communicate...

  Level description | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening

• VCELY194

  Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements

  Elaborations

  • referring to learned knowledge of text structure and grammar when creating a new text
  • applying new vocabulary appropriately in creating text
  • learning how to plan spoken and written communications so that listeners and readers might follow the sequence of ideas or events
  • beginning to consider audience in designing a communication involving visual components, selecting images for maximum impact

  VCELY194 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Literacy

• English: Level 6 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 6, students understand how to use knowledge of phonics when decoding familiar words and the technical or derived words in increasingly complex texts. They understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects and can analyse and explain how language features...

  Level description | English | Level 6 | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level 6 achievement standards - Writing

  Students understand how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis. They show how specific details can be used to support a point of view. They explain how their choices of language features and images are used. They use banks of known words and the less familiar words they...

  Level description | English | Level 6 | Writing

• English: Level 5 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 5, students explain how text structures assist in understanding the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings and events. They analyse and explain literal and implied information from a variety of texts...

  Level description | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing

• English: Foundation Level description

  In the Foundation level, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults, and students from other classes.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read and view spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as some...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 1 description

  In Level 1, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults and students from other classes.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to entertain and inform. These encompass traditional...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 2 description

  In Level 2, students communicate with peers, teachers, students from other classes, and community members.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as...

  Level description | English

• English: Level A achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and react to some familiar objects, people, words and sounds within the environment by turning head, looking, reaching out and/or vocalising. They respond to their name and to familiar items when named. Students show an interest in others and an awareness of everyday social...

  Level description | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level C description

  In Level C, students communicate with known adults, teachers and peers. Students learn about social rules of communication and experience different ways to convey information to others. Students are provided with experiences that engage, support and extend their learning, including the use of...

  Level description | English

• VCELA181

  Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends

  Elaborations

  • saying words with the same onset as a given word (for example words that begin like 'd/og', 'bl/ue')
  • saying words with the same rime as a given word (for example words that end like 'c/at', 'pl/ay')

  VCELA181 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA310

  Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation

  Elaborations

  • mapping topic words related to sub-headings

  VCELA310 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY444

  Apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension

  Elaborations

  • predicting meanings of unfamiliar words by using morphographic patterns

  VCELY444 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy