Version history
Version 2.0 Approved by Ministers December 2017 and published with minor editorial changes 18 January 2018. Version 1.0 Draft version trialled in schools July/August 2017. Feedback used to inform version 2.0.
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How are the progressions and the Australian Curriculum related?
In the Australian Curriculum, learning area content describes the knowledge, understanding and skills that are to be taught in each year or band of years. Achievement standards describe the learning expected of students at each year level or band of years. …
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Multiplicative strategies description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to use multiplicative strategies in computation. The coordination of units multiplicatively involves using the values of one unit applied to each of the units of the other, the multiplier. …
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How are the progressions different from the general capabilities and how can they be used?
The National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions are different from the general capability literacy and numeracy continua in scope, structure and intended use. The general capabilities describe what can reasonably be expected of students at particular …
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How do the progressions cater to the diversity of learners?
Consistent with ACARA’s Student diversity advice on the Australian Curriculum website, the progressions support teachers to cater for the diversity of learners by: acknowledging students’ different rates of progress through the levels and across elements acknowledging that …
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How were the progressions developed?
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), in partnership with NSW Department of Education, led the development of national collaborative action to develop the progressions from mid-2016 to the end of 2017. During 2016, version …
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Understanding texts description
Understanding texts describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient in decoding, using, interacting with, analysing and evaluating texts to build meaning. Texts include components of print, image, sound, animated movements and symbolic representations. …
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What is the focus of the numeracy progression?
Numeracy development influences student success in many areas of learning at school. The progression can be used to support students to successfully engage with the numeracy demands of the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum. The National Numeracy …
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What is the focus of the literacy progression?
Literacy development influences student success in many areas of learning at school. The progression can be used to support students to successfully engage with the literacy demands of the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum. The National Literacy …
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How does the literacy progression cater to students for whom English is an additional language or dialect?
The Shape of the Australian Curriculum describes ACARA’s commitment to supporting equity of access to the Australian Curriculum for all students. As part of this commitment, ACARA developed Student diversity advice and the English as an Additional Language …
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How is the numeracy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Numeracy skills are explicit teaching in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Students need opportunities to recognise that mathematics is constantly used outside the mathematics classroom and that numerate people apply general mathematical skills …
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How is the literacy progression structured?
Elements and sub-elements The National Literacy Learning Progression has three elements that reflect aspects of literacy development necessary for successful learners of the F–10 Australian Curriculum and in everyday life. The three elements, which align …
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How is the literacy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Literacy skills are explicit in the Australian Curriculum: English. However, literacy is strengthened, made specific and extended in other learning areas. Literacy enables students to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, …
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NPA5
Generalising patterns identifies elements, including missing elements, in a one-operation number pattern Number sentences uses equivalent number sentences involving addition or subtraction to find an unknown (527 + 96 = ? is the same as 527 …
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MeT2
Telling time uses the appropriate time unit to describe the duration of events (uses minutes to describe time taken to clean teeth whereas uses hours to describe the duration of a long-distance car trip) reads time on analogue clocks to the hour, …
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NPA6
Generalising patterns identifies a single operation rule in numerical patterns and records it as a numerical expression (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 … is n + 2, or 2, 6, 18, 54 … is 3n) predicts a higher term of a pattern using the pattern’s rule Number properties creates …
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UGP3
Properties of shapes and objects relates the faces of a three-dimensional object to two-dimensional shapes aligns the corresponding faces of an object and its net identifies the relationship between the number of edges of a shape and the number of …
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OwD2
Understanding and estimating relative size of decimals interprets the relative size of decimals, and rounds to estimate answers estimates the size of answers without doing the exact calculations (1.23 + 3.4 cannot be 1.57 because the sum must be greater …
OwD2 | Operating with decimals | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
CoU1
Building ratios uses knowledge of fractions as part-whole relationships to divide and compare quantities represents and models ratios using diagrams or objects (in a ratio 1:4 of red to blue counters, for each red counter there are four blue coun …
CoU1 | Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
InF2
Repeated halving recognises quarters and eighths formed by repeated halving of a length (finds halfway then halves each half, or repeatedly halves using a linear arrangement of discrete items – 8 counters halved and then halved again into 4 groups …
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