Literacy learning area advice
The learning area advice resources can assist teachers in providing an illustration of how the progressions may be used in learning areas, other than Mathematics and English, to support students’ literacy and numeracy development. They provide authentic …
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How can the literacy progression be used?
The National Literacy Learning Progression can be used at a whole school, team or individual teacher level. However, the progression provides maximum student learning benefits when used as part of a whole-school strategy that involves professional learning …
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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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Creating texts description
The Creating texts sub-element describes how students become increasingly proficient at creating texts for an increasing range of purposes. Students’ writing moves from representing basic concepts and simple ideas to conveying abstract concepts and complex …
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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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Speaking description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at selecting language to express and share ideas, appropriate to audience, purpose and task – in planned speaking situations. This sub-element includes the development of skills …
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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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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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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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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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PDF documents
Literacy Learning progression Introduction to the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions National Literacy Learning Progression Appendices 1 to 5 Appendix 6 - Text complexity
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What is literacy?
Literacy is fundamental to a student’s ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society. In the Australian Curriculum, … students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently …
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UnT5
Comprehension reads and views simple texts independently (see Text complexity) listens to texts to engage with learning area content (a text about family histories) views and discusses the content and features of texts with predictable structures …
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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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InT5
interacts to critically evaluate ideas and refine meaning explains new learning from interacting with others uses a range of strategies for effective dialogue (questions claims made by a speaker or presents an alternative point to the previous speaker) initiates …
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UnT2
Comprehension listens to texts read by an adult repeats fragments of text invents a spoken text based on images Processes recognises symbols and words in texts (recognises own name) shows awareness of correct orientation of text (the book …
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SpK7
speaks on topics which explore and interpret concepts drawn from research or learning area content selects voice appropriate to purpose (third person to create distance and authority or first person to achieve personal connection) uses ideas and language …
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SpK8
speaks on topics which explore issues drawn from research or learning area content includes a range of alternative viewpoints in spoken texts, where appropriate controls and manipulates a sophisticated range of language features to affect the audience uses …
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UnT3
Comprehension listens actively to a range of texts read by others engages in group discussion about a text talks about images and/or some printed words in a text answers and poses mainly literal questions about the text Processes distinguishes …
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SpK3
makes short presentations using a few connected sentences, on familiar and learnt topics (retells a familiar story or describes a process) speaks audibly and clearly to a familiar audience (own class) uses some extended sentences organises key ideas …
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