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• VCCCTR084

  Explore reasons and conclusions through investigation

  Elaborations

  • recording their understanding through images and words
  • beginning to explain the reasons for their choice, conclusion or decision
  • exploring and investigating and establishing ideas and understandings during and at the conclusion of this process

  VCCCTR084 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Reasoning

• VCEALA379

  Write using language that is beginning to reflect the features of written language more than the features of spoken language

  Elaborations

  • expanding vocabulary to incorporate more topic-specific words
  • developing simple plans to support writing with some structure and complexity at the text, paragraph and sentence level

  VCEALA379 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA012

  Distinguish English from other languages

  Elaborations

  • recognising the sounds and words of English when being spoken to
  • assessing which language(s) the speaker knows, and responding using shared repertoire

  VCEALA012 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC189

  Make simple predictions or inferences about a text, with support

  Elaborations

  • answering simple questions predicting events in a familiar text, for example ‘Where will they go next?’
  • matching words that describe emotions with images in a book, for example ‘happy’, ‘sad’

  VCEALC189 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC326

  Identify key points of information in short spoken texts

  Elaborations

  • recognising key topic words from classroom activities and texts
  • recalling the sequence of ideas in a spoken text
  • answering questions using a familiar structure on a familiar topic

  VCEALC326 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC002

  Respond simply to questions and prompts

  Elaborations

  • recognising familiar question stem words such as ‘Who’, ‘Where’, ‘Do’
  • understanding common or personal questions, for example ‘How old are you?’, ‘What sports do you like?’
  • giving simple responses, such as nodding, ‘yes’, ‘no’, short learnt phrases
  • responding to questions with a single word or phrase but making longer utterances by substituting words in known sentence patterns
  • expanding on basic personal information when prompted, supported and given adequate time, such as ‘My name is ...’, ‘I come from …’
  • borrowing and adapting key words from questions, for example by reordering, as in Teacher: ‘Are you finished, Ali?’ Student: ‘Ali finished’

  VCEALC002 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC218

  Express imaginative or personal ideas in simple forms of writing

  Elaborations

  • write words or sentences to describe or explain own drawings or pictures from a text
  • telling a short story or recount to be scribed by a teacher, and copying these sentences

  VCEALC218 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC375

  Add visual information to written texts

  Elaborations

  • illustrating a narrative to reflect descriptions given in the written text
  • adding a copied diagram to a digital information report, with features and key words that are used in the written text

  VCEALC375 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL178

  Attempt basic self-correction

  Elaborations

  • attempting to self-correct pronunciation when the listener does not understand the word being spoken
  • repeating correct pronunciation following modelling by the listener

  VCEALL178 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL365

  Use knowledge of simple tense and negation to interpret the meaning of written text

  Elaborations

  • identifying the base word and interpreting the effect of tense and negation, for example in ‘did not eat’
  • matching sets of phrases to show their relationship, for example ‘go’, ‘went’ and ‘did not go’

  VCEALL365 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL128

  Read familiar phrases and sentences with fluency

  Elaborations

  • reading fluently frequently heard phrases, such as ‘and then’, ‘and he said’
  • sequencing words or phrases in a familiar sentence
  • reading sentences with fluency after rehearsal

  VCEALL128 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL308

  Attempt to write paragraphs and topic sentences

  Elaborations

  • grouping sentences about the same topic into simple paragraphs
  • using key words to write a simple topic sentence at the beginning of most paragraphs

  VCEALL308 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL342

  Use pronunciation and non-verbal features to support communication

  Elaborations

  • imitating features of the speech of others, including the teacher, peers and speakers in video or audio clips
  • practising pronunciation, rhythm and intonation by repeating words, phrases and sentences

  VCEALL342 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• 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

• VCGGK011

  Experience weather and seasons

  Elaborations

  • exposed to weather conditions and their sensory characteristics
  • exposed to weather conditions being linked to pictures, words and images
  • experiencing the changing of clothing and activities due to the weather and the season

  VCGGK011 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them