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• VCEALL173

  Construct two- or three-word utterances, with the support of actions, gestures or visuals

  Elaborations

  • using common vocabulary and short formulaic expressions to communicate intention, such as ‘Shut door’
  • pointing, miming or gesturing to supplement speech

  VCEALL173 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC777

  Write an extended argument or discussion on a familiar issue

  Elaborations

  • writing a range of texts that present and justify a point of view, such as an argument, discussion, debate
  • building cohesive arguments, for example by showing supporting evidence, development of ideas, rebuttal
  • using a wide range of objective language to express points of view indirectly, such as ‘Evidence shows’, ‘It is clear from the film that …’

  VCEALC777 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | 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

• VCEALC321

  Demonstrate independence in extended conversations

  Elaborations

  • contributing ideas and information to extend the conversation and make connections to other speakers
  • asking questions for clarification or elaboration of ideas
  • giving personal opinion, such as agreement or disagreement with a point

  VCEALC321 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC033

  Show a personal response to a text

  Elaborations

  • looking at or reading a book in own personal time
  • pointing out a favourite image or page
  • expressing a simple opinion on a text, for example indicating like or dislike of a character

  VCEALC033 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC568

  Extract specific information from simple charts, tables or maps

  Elaborations

  • locating city or country names on a map
  • identifying information in a cell of a table, using row and column headings
  • pointing to and reading out the names of features on a labelled diagram

  VCEALC568 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL179

  Respond to key words in a range of familiar and common spoken instructions

  Elaborations

  • carrying out simple instructions, such as ‘Shut the door’
  • clarifying instructions before acting, for example by repeating key words (‘The door?’) or pointing

  VCEALL179 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level A2 description

  The Level A2 curriculum supports students to expand their repertoire of spoken and written English. Students explore communication in predictable social situations. Students learn to identify key points in familiar topics and to develop their capacity to use images as cues to decode meaning.

  St...

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

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level CL achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  At Level CL students read and complete simple, structured activities around a wide range of familiar, short, simple texts that use repetitive structures and features and are strongly supported by illustrations. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal...

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

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level CL description

  The Level CL 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. The curriculum covers the practising of pronunciation...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• VCEALC676

  Interpret the main idea in texts, with some support

  Elaborations

  • identifying the main idea based on organisational features of a specific text, such as the introduction or the conclusion in an essay
  • identifying key points and learnt topic vocabulary
  • using support to identify the main idea, such as prepared questions or background information

  VCEALC676 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC187

  Answer simple written questions with support

  Elaborations

  • responding to simple, familiar questions or instructions read aloud by the teacher, for example ‘Point to the one with a tail’
  • write simple answers to questions, with support, for example dictating a short answer to the teacher and copying what the teacher has scribed

  VCEALC187 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC762

  Interpret a text at literal and inferential levels

  Elaborations

  • making connections between the text and own experience or other texts to draw inferences and make predictions
  • interpreting the feelings of a character at different points in a text
  • suggesting the opinion of the author based on the ideas in the text

  VCEALC762 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL047

  Identify repetitive words or phrases in known texts

  Elaborations

  • pointing to or counting repeated words in a text, for example ‘How many times can you see the word “me”?’
  • identifying characters or objects that are represented in both images and print text

  VCEALL047 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• 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

• VCEALL580

  Demonstrate awareness of basic sentence and question patterns

  Elaborations

  • ordering words and phrases to create grammatical and logical sentences and questions
  • pointing out the subject, verb and object in sentences such as ‘She bought some fruit’
  • identifying question words such as ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘why’

  VCEALL580 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL734

  Create, edit and navigate simple digital texts

  Elaborations

  • creating a small range of digital texts, including documents, slides, tables and simple graphs
  • formatting texts simply, for example using font styles, text alignment, dot points
  • reading menus or links in order to navigate a website

  VCEALL734 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL577

  Use organisational and visual elements to suggest the content of a text

  Elaborations

  • referring to visuals to predict and locate content in a text, for example a text title, supporting picture, graph or chart
  • using organisational or visual features to preview or summarise a studied text, for example a simple dot-point list or mind map

  VCEALL577 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC715

  Write an argument or discussion

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of texts that present a point of view, such as an argument or discussion
  • referring to model texts or templates to structure texts logically and construct a cohesive argument, for example providing supporting arguments, linkage between ideas
  • expressing a point of view using subjective language (such as ‘I think’) and some objective language (such as ‘It has been shown’)

  VCEALC715 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Communication

• English | English as an Additional Language (EAL): Learning in English as an Additional Language

  The language modes and strands of the English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum are interrelated, and learning in one often supports and extends learning in the others. Each content description contains specific and discrete information identifying what teachers are expected to teach...

  Overview material | English as an Additional Language (EAL)