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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

• English: Level D achievement standards - Writing

  When writing, students produce ‘text-like’ writing to convey meaning and label images. They trace letter-like patterns moving left to right across a page. They have a preferred writing hand and hold a pencil to trace over lines, shapes and patterns with some accuracy. They colour within a clearly...

  Level description | English | Level D | Writing

• VCELY011

  Respond to texts within the everyday environment

  Elaborations

  • experiencing texts with different textures, finishes and sound
  • reacting to texts, images and objects that relate to everyday experiences and cultural events
  • using their senses to explore elements within a multimodal text, for example, texture, colour, sound

  VCELY011 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA402

  Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning

  Elaborations

  • comprehending a series of static images and combinations of language and images in a picture book, for example title, setting, characters, actions, as well as technical elements including position, size, colour, angle, framing, point of view
  • analysing the relationship between visual elements and text in non-fiction texts such as documentaries, television news, online newspapers and digital magazines

  VCELA402 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY485

  Identify and explore the purposes and effects of different text structures and language features of spoken texts, and use this knowledge to create purposeful texts that inform, persuade and engage audiences, using organisation patterns, voice and language conventions to present a coherent point...

  Elaborations

  • identifying stereotypes of people, cultures, places, events, and concepts and explaining why they are stereotypes
  • identifying and explaining satirical events, including events in other cultures, for example depictions in political cartoons
  • applying knowledge of spoken, visual, auditory, technical and multimodal resources (for example sound and silence, camera shot types, lighting and colour) in conjunction with verbal resources for varying purposes and contexts
  • selecting subject matter and language to position readers to accept representations of people, events, ideas and information

  VCELY485 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELT219

  Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways

  Elaborations

  • describing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (country or city) and how this impacts on the characters
  • describing plots including beginnings (orientation), how the problem (complication) is introduced and solved (resolution), and considering how these features construct meanings
  • identifying features of imaginary or fantasy texts, for example magic powers, shifts in time
  • investigating Aboriginal stories, found from online sources, that explain physical features of the landscape and identify and describe the common features of language used
  • comparing two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures, describing similarities and differences in authors’ points of view

  VCELT219 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Literature