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 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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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 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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PhA4
orally blends four phonemes together to make a one-syllable spoken word (s-t-o-p, stop) orally segments spoken words comprised of four phonemes into separate phonemes (fresh, f-r-e-sh) identifies the number of phonemes that make up a given word identifies …
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PKW6
Phonic knowledge reads words with taught vowel digraphs (ee, oo, ay, ai, ea, oa, ow) and applies when reading decodable texts reads two-syllable compound words with taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences (desktop, shellfish, carpark, farmyard) and …
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PhA3
orally blends two or three phonemes together to make a one-syllable word (a-sh, s-u-n, b-i-n, sh-i-p) orally segments words of two or three phonemes into separate phonemes (c-a-t, s-u-n, k-i-ck) identifies the number of phonemes that make up a spoken …
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PKW2
identifies pictures, words, spaces between words and numerals in texts (points to/indicates pictures, words and spaces around words in a continuous text) reads aloud some familiar words and identifies them in environmental print (classroom labels, …
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PKW4
Phonic knowledge says the most common phoneme for all single-letter graphemes writes/selects corresponding graphemes for all common phonemes blends phonemes for all common, single-letter graphemes to read VC and CVC words and applies this knowledge …
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UnT7
Comprehension reads and views predictable texts and some moderately complex texts (see Text complexity) identifies the main idea in a predictable text identifies the purpose of predictable texts and moderately complex texts monitors the development of …
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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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PKW5
Phonic knowledge gives examples of how a phoneme can be represented by more than one letter or letter combination (c, ck) says short and long vowel sounds for letters a, e, i, o, u reads single-syllable words with common double letters (ss – fuss, …
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CrT9
Generic indicators maintains appropriate tense throughout the text (see Grammar) uses a range of sentences including correctly structured complex sentences (see Grammar) spells simple, most complex and some challenging words correctly (see Spelling) uses …
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