Year 1 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 strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …
Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 1
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1453
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1453 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1659
Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example prediction, monitoring meaning and re-reading
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1659 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1455
Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes to create word families
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1455 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1821
Use visual memory to read and write high-frequency words
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1821 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1443
Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that many people may use sign systems to communicate with others
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1443 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1454
Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1454 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1788
Use interaction skills including turn-taking, recognising the contributions of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1788 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1458
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1458 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1660
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1660 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1661
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1661 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACELY1660
making predictions from the cover, from illustrations and at points in the text before reading on
Elaboration (5) | ACELY1660 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELY1659
reading aloud with developing fluency and intonation
Elaboration (4) | ACELY1659 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1659
using contextual and semantic knowledge to make predictions about a text’s purpose and content
Elaboration | ACELY1659 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELY1657
providing simple explanations about how to do or make something
Elaboration (1) | ACELY1657 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1448
identifying patterns of vocabulary items in texts (for example class/subclass patterns, part/whole patterns, compare/contrast patterns, cause-and-effect patterns, word associations/collocation)
Elaboration | ACELA1448 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1454
learning forms of address for visitors and how to use language appropriately to ask directions and for information, for example on excursions
Elaboration | ACELA1454 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELY1662
beginning to use dictionaries and classroom charts to check and correct spelling of less familiar words
Elaboration (4) | ACELY1662 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1450
learning about how books and digital texts are organised including page numbers, table of contents, headings, images with captions and the use of scrolling to access digital texts
Elaboration | ACELA1450 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum