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• VCELA176

  Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

  Elaborations

  • discussing and comparing the purposes of familiar texts drawn from local contexts and interests
  • becoming familiar with the typical stages of types of text including recount and procedure
  • using different types of texts, for example procedures (including recipes), and discussing the text structure

  VCELA176 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• 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

• VCELA041

  Explore the concept of difference through matching letters, images, shapes and familiar words and sounds

  Elaborations

  • matching pictures and shapes that are the same
  • learning to match letters of the alphabet that are the same

  VCELA041 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELT253

  Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

  Elaborations

  • identifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (‘in the middle of a vast, bare plain’) to establish setting and atmosphere (‘the castle loomed dark and forbidding’) and to draw readers into events that follow
  • discussing the language used to describe the traits of characters in stories, their actions and motivations: ‘Claire was so lonely; she desperately wanted a pet and she was afraid she would do anything, just anything, to have one to care for’

  VCELT253 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT316

  Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

  Elaborations

  • discussing how figurative language including simile and metaphor can make use of a comparison between different things, for example ‘My love is like a red, red rose’, ‘Tyger!, Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night’, and how by appealing to the imagination, it provides new ways of looking at the world
  • investigating the qualities of contemporary protest songs, for example those about Indigenous peoples and those about the environment

  VCELT316 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY379

  Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose

  Elaborations

  • explaining the possible relationship between an author's choices and the features of a text, such as identifying which group would be the most likely target of the information in an advertisement, and justifying why on the basis of textual features

  VCELY379 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELT254

  Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose

  Elaborations

  • identifying the effect of imagery in texts, for example the use of imagery related to nature in haiku poems
  • exploring how rhythm, onomatopoeia and alliteration give momentum to poetry and prose read aloud, and enhance enjoyment

  VCELT254 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT463

  Identify, explain and discuss how narrative viewpoint, structure, characterisation and devices including analogy and satire shape different interpretations and responses to a text

  Elaborations

  • looking at a range of short poems, a short story, or extracts from a novel or film to find and discuss examples of how language devices layer meaning and influence the responses of listeners, viewers or readers

  VCELT463 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• English: Level B achievement standards - Writing

  When writing, they can scribble freely using various materials or computer mouse. Students draw non-linear shapes and forms. They can use a touchscreen, press keys on keyboard and move a computer mouse. They begin to hold and manipulate objects. They assist in the construction of text by selecting...

  Level description | English | Level B | Writing

• English: Level B achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level B, students will listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They can focus on an image during the sharing of a text. They select a text using visual images and request a text to be read. Students can recognise images of familiar...

  Level description | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing

• VCELT045

  Recognise a familiar event or character during shared reading or viewing of text

  Elaborations

  • identifying some familiar images and shapes within a text
  • engaging with the features of shared texts, such as images, sounds and actions

  VCELT045 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELA227

  Use visual memory to write high-frequency words and words where spelling is not predictable from the sounds

  Elaborations

  • writing sight words (because, said) and other words that cannot be sounded out phonetically (bird, phone) by drawing on knowledge of letter patterns, word shape and possible sequencing of letters in English (for example, jam is possible but not jxm)

  VCELA227 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Language

• VCELY022

  Encounter a variety of objects and textures and hold objects for a short period of time

  Elaborations

  • experiencing objects with different textures, sizes, shapes and temperatures
  • experiencing and holding objects with varying characteristics, sizes, textures and densities
  • reacting to the sensory input of different objects
  • reaching, feeling and tapping objects
  • accepting materials for drawing

  VCELY022 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY057

  Grasp and move objects within and between their hands

  Elaborations

  • imitating writing behaviour
  • drawing non-linear shapes and forms
  • making marks on paper
  • crossing the midline to handle and manipulate objects
  • manipulating objects by picking up, putting down, transferring and ‘posting’ objects of various sizes

  VCELY057 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Writing | Literacy

• 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

• VCELT454

  Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context

  Elaborations

  • reflecting on and discussing responses to literature including plot events, setting details, characterisation, themes, structure and language devices used to achieve particular effects, and collaboratively formulating a list of factors that characterise merit
  • discussing, debating and evaluating the cinematic qualities and success of a film or new versions of a film
  • exploring the ways that context has shaped the representation of particular cultures, such as through the analysis of differing viewpoints in texts about different cultures or by comparing the ways texts from different periods reveal differences in viewpoints (for example differences in the portrayal of migrants in traditional and more contemporary literature)

  VCELT454 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• 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

• VCELY441

  Analyse how the construction and interpretation of texts, including media texts, can be influenced by cultural perspectives and other texts

  Elaborations

  • comparing perspectives represented in texts from different times and places, including texts drawn from popular culture
  • identifying, comparing and creating relationships between texts (including novels, illustrated stories, social issue cartoons, documentaries, multimodal texts)
  • reflecting on the notion that all texts build on a body of prior texts in a culture
  • analysing and identifying how socio-cultural values, attitudes and beliefs are conveyed in texts, for example comparing and analysing perspectives about an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issue reported in commercial media compared to public and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media
  • analysing and interpreting assumptions about groups that have shaped or influenced representations of people, places, events and things and identifying how listeners and readers are positioned by these representations

  VCELY441 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• English | English: Structure

  The English curriculum is organised by language modes and strands.

  Language Modes

  The language modes are interrelated and the learning in one often supports and extends learning of the others. Each content description has been placed in the mode which is the major focus of its learning.

  Classroom...

  Overview material | English