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• VCELT409

  Interpret and analyse language choices, including sentence patterns, dialogue, imagery and other language features, in short stories, literary essays and plays

  Elaborations

  • select an aspect of a text such as a sentence pattern or an image or word and adapt it for a new context explaining how the change will affect meaning

  VCELT409 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT173

  Modify familiar texts

  Elaborations

  • changing familiar texts by innovating on elements of text structure, for example replacing rhyming words or substituting verbs with other verbs

  VCELT173 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELY469

  Use comprehension strategies to compare and contrast information within and between texts, identifying and analysing embedded perspectives, and evaluating supporting evidence

  Elaborations

  • identifying the meaning of an increasing range of subtle vocabulary, for example inferring the different connotations of words in advertising texts from other cultures

  VCELY469 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELY152

  Read texts with familiar structures and features, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge

  Elaborations

  • navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word
  • reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation
  • attempting to work out unknown words by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
  • predicting what might happen on the basis of experience of this kind of text; at the sentence level predicting the meaning on the basis of syntax and word meaning

  VCELY152 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELY117

  Read a simple sentence or pictorial representation of a sentence

  Elaborations

  • repeating predictable text and refrains from a familiar story
  • identifying and selecting a small number of words or symbols within an environmental text

  VCELY117 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA303

  Understand that Standard Australian English is one of many social dialects used in Australia, and that while it originated in England it has been influenced by many other languages

  Elaborations

  • identifying words used in Standard Australian English that are derived from other languages, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, and determining if the original meaning is reflected in English usage, for example kangaroo, tsunami, typhoon, amok, orang-utan
  • identifying commonly used words derived from other cultures

  VCELA303 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA368

  Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources

  Elaborations

  • defending points of view in reading circle discussions
  • responding to points of view by developing and elaborating on others’ responses
  • building a knowledge base about words of evaluation, including words to express emotional responses to texts, judgment of characters and their actions, and appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of text

  VCELA368 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY410

  Analyse and explain how language has evolved over time and how technology and the media have influenced language use and forms of communication

  Elaborations

  • identifying and explaining how mobile technologies are influencing language uses and structures
  • analysing the ways that identity may be created in digital contexts
  • identifying how meanings or words change or shift depending on context, for example the word ‘cool’ is used to describe temperature or to express approval when used in informal contexts

  VCELY410 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA096

  Recognise different ways to communicate needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • expressing needs, wants and feelings through language and communication
  • making requests through the use of words, photographs, pictures or alternative and augmentative communication

  VCELA096 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA075

  Recognise the use of images to represent an event, object or idea

  Elaborations

  • exploring what information an image tells us
  • learning that words and images can be used to tell a story about an event
  • using images to represent a story or an event

  VCELA075 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA293

  Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources, including vocabulary encountered in research, into own texts

  Elaborations

  • building etymological knowledge about word origins (for example 'thermometer') and building vocabulary from research about technical and subject specific topics

  VCELA293 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Language

• VCELA424

  Understand how conventions of speech adopted by communities influence the identities of people in those communities

  Elaborations

  • understanding that our use of language helps to create different identities, for example teenage groups and sportspeople have adopted particular words or ways of speaking

  VCELA424 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA042

  Reproduce sounds associated with familiar objects and names

  Elaborations

  • copying mouth and face formation adults make to form sounds and noises
  • repeating a sound or noise made by an adult
  • matching an object to a sound, noise or word

  VCELA042 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY104

  Listen to and respond to the communication from an adult in classroom situations

  Elaborations

  • listening and responding to simple instructions and questions
  • answering simple questions using single word responses, for example yes, no, red, bus or alternative and augmentative communication

  VCELY104 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELA482

  Understand that Standard Australian English in its spoken and written forms has a history of evolution and change and continues to evolve

  Elaborations

  • investigating differences between spoken and written English by comparing the language of conversation and interviews with the written language of print texts
  • experimenting with and incorporating new words and creative inventions in own written and spoken texts
  • understanding how and why spelling became standardised and how conventions have changed over time and continue to change through common usage, the invention of new words and creative combinations of existing words

  VCELA482 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• 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

• VCELA270

  Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning

  Elaborations

  • learning that a word or sign can carry different weight in different cultural contexts, for example that particular respect is due to some people and creatures and that stories can be passed on to teach us how to live appropriately

  VCELA270 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA261

  Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement

  Elaborations

  • knowing that a clause is basically a group of words that contains a verb
  • knowing that, in terms of meaning, a basic clause represents: what is happening; who or what is participating, and the surrounding circumstances

  VCELA261 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Language

• VCELA428

  Investigate how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, including allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor

  Elaborations

  • comparing texts that use evaluative language in different ways – print advertisements, editorials, talkback radio and poetry – and identifying wordings that appraise things indirectly, through evocative language, similes and metaphors that direct the views of the readers in particular ways

  VCELA428 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA143

  Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas

  Elaborations

  • learning that word order in sentences is important for meaning (for example 'The boy sat on the dog', 'The dog sat on the boy')
  • creating students' own written texts and reading aloud to the teacher and others

  VCELA143 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language