Foundation Year English
The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, …
Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1649
attempting to work out unknown words by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1649 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Foundation Year
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of the Foundation year, students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standard | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1433
Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1428
learning to ask relevant questions and to express requests and opinions in ways that suit different contexts
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1428 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1430
repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1430 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1433
learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1437
bringing vocabulary from personal experiences, relating this to new experiences and building a vocabulary for thinking and talking about school topics
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1437 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1439
identifying syllables in spoken words, for example clapping the rhythm of ‘Mon-day’, ‘Ja-cob’ or ‘Si-en-na’
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1439 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1438
breaking words into onset and rime to learn how to spell words that share the same pattern, for example ‘p-at’, ‘b-at’, ‘t-all’ and ‘f-all’
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1438 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1819
blending phonemes to form one-syllable spoken words, for example ‘s-u-n’ is orally expressed as ‘sun’ and ‘b-a-g’ is orally expressed as ‘bag’
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1819 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1575
comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1575 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1577
returning to preferred texts and commenting on reasons for selection
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1577 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1783
talking about people, events and ideas in texts, enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1783 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1580
using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1580 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1646
listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1646 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1784
participating in speaking and listening situations, exchanging ideas with peers in pairs and small groups and engaging in class discussions, listening to others and contributing ideas
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1784 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1650
providing a simple, correctly-sequenced retelling of narrative texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1650 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1651
creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1651 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1653
following clear demonstrations of how to construct each letter (for example where to start; which direction to write)
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1653 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum