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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

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learning to produce simple handwriting movements

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learning to construct lower case letters and to combine these into words

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learning to construct some upper case letters

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participating in informal situations, for example play-based experiences which involve the imaginative use of spoken language

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using image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and web-based texts

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learning how to use different voice levels appropriate to a situation, for example learning about ‘inside voices’ and ‘outside voices’

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learning that we use a different tone and style of language with different people

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learning about print: direction of print and return sweep, spaces between words

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learning to ask questions and provide answers that are more than one or two words

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learning to ask relevant questions and to express requests and opinions in ways that suit different contexts

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learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts

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learning about simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu

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learning that word order in sentences is important for meaning (for example 'The boy sat on the dog', 'The dog sat on the boy')

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learning that language varies according to the relationships between people, for example between parent and child, teacher and student, siblings, friends, shopkeepers and customers

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learning that words are made up of meaningful parts, for example ’dogs’ has two meaningful parts ’dog’ and ’s’ meaning more than one

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learning that different languages exist; discussing the various languages encountered in the community and at school; acknowledging the home languages of students who speak another language, and valuing the ability to speak more than one language

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learning that written text in Standard Australian English has conventions about words, spaces between words, layout on the page and consistent spelling because it has to communicate when the speaker/writer is not present

Elaboration (1) ACELA1433

learning that Standard Australian English in written texts is read from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and that direction of print may differ in other cultures, for example Japanese texts

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