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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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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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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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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InT6
synthesises ideas from group discussion into a common theme or hypothesis poses problems, hypothesises and formulates questions about abstract ideas in group situations restates different views and makes suggestions to negotiate agreement asks questions …
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SpK2
retells personal events and experiences to peers and known adults shares feelings and thoughts (about the events and characters in text) retells key details or points from a text viewed or heard uses appropriate or mainly appropriate word order uses …
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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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SpK4
delivers spoken texts for a range of purposes across learning areas (explains how the mathematics problem was solved) uses complex sentence constructions including relative clauses (the boy who drew the picture got a prize) (see Grammar) adjusts register …
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SpK5
delivers sustained spoken texts on a broad range of learning area topics includes details and elaborations to expand ideas uses connectives to signal a change in perspective (however, although, on the other hand) or to show causal relationships (due …
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SpK6
speaks on a range of real or imagined topics that include ideas or concepts from learning areas organises more complex ideas or concepts logically, selecting details to accentuate key points speaks audibly and coherently to a less familiar audience …
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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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FlY5
reads aloud a range of moderately complex texts with fluency and phrasing, adjusting pace, volume, pitch and pronunciation to enhance meaning and expression varies pace according to purpose and audience reads aloud with expression that reflects the …
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UnT9
Comprehension reads and views moderately complex texts (see Text complexity) identifies the main themes or concepts in moderately complex texts summarises the text identifying key details compares and contrasts the use of visual elements in multimodal …
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CrT4
Crafting ideas talks about the purpose and audience of familiar imaginative and informative texts writes one or more ideas which are not necessarily related, using sentence fragments (labels a drawing) writes texts in different forms (lists, story) combines …
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CrT6
Crafting ideas writes for a range of purposes (to recount a personal experience, to observe and describe, to provide a reason why, to express thoughts and feelings about a topic) writes four or more sequenced and clearly connected ideas includes …
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CrT8
Generic indicators tense mostly correct throughout text (see Grammar) consistently writes compound sentences correctly and uses a greater range of complex sentences (see Grammar) uses a variety of sentence structures and sentence beginnings spells …
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CrT11
Generic indicators spells a range of challenging words correctly (see Spelling)
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