Listening description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at building meaning from a variety of spoken and audio texts. It includes active listening processes to access and understand the increasingly sophisticated language structures of …
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LiS6
responds to texts with unfamiliar content identifies main ideas of a spoken text using supporting details identifies purpose and intended audience of a spoken text infers meaning from texts that contain features such as music and environmental sounds asks …
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LiS2
responds to spoken texts (uses facial expressions, movements, turns towards the speaker) responds to short phrases relying on key words, tone of voice and intonation follows a simple command recognises and generates one-syllable rhyming words (see …
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LiS3
listens actively to short texts consisting of a few sentences recalls one or two ideas responds to simple statements, commands or questions uses a small range of listening strategies (asking what, when, why questions about a text they have listened …
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LiS4
responds to simple and predictable texts (see Text complexity) recalls specific information from a spoken text (recalls a message from a school assembly announcement) responds to literal questions about a spoken text experiments with a small range …
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LiS5
listens to texts to engage with learning area content recalls specific information from a learning area text attends to sequence when recounting ideas listens to a familiar story and retells, making minor adaptations if needed selects appropriate …
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LiS7
responds to moderately complex and sophisticated texts (see Text complexity) identifies and analyses how spoken language is used for different effects (identifies the use of intonation, pausing, rhythm and phrasing to give emphasis and weight to ideas) selects …
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LiS8
identifies and paraphrases key points of a speaker’s arguments discusses their own and others’ listening behaviours evaluates strategies used by the speaker to elicit emotional responses identifies any shifts in direction, line of argument or purpose …
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