Foundation Year English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, …

Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Foundation Year

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of the Foundation year, students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standard | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELT1580

Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images

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ACELT1580 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1650

Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

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ACELY1650 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1437

Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school

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ACELA1437 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1438

Understand how to use knowledge of letters and sounds including onset and rime to spell words

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ACELA1438 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1784

Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact

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ACELY1784 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1428

learning that we use a different tone and style of language with different people

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1428 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1429

recognising some of the ways we can use speech, gesture, writing and media to communicate feelings

Elaboration | ACELA1429 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1440

identifying familiar and recurring letters and the use of upper and lower case in written texts in the classroom and the community, for example 'Tom went to the park.'

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1440 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1646

participating in informal situations, for example play-based experiences which involve the imaginative use of spoken language

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1646 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1784

learning how to use different voice levels appropriate to a situation, for example learning about ‘inside voices’ and ‘outside voices’

Elaboration | ACELY1784 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1820

listening to hear that children use letters/sounds (when necessary) to help them read CVC words and hear and record appropriate sounds associated with letters when writing CVC words, for example ‘kat’ for ‘cat’

Elaboration | ACELA1820 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum