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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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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Punctuation description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient using punctuation to ensure clarity and ease of reading in the texts they produce. As students write more complex and technical texts they will use increasingly complex punctuation …
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Fluency description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly faster, smoother, more accurate and expressive in their reading aloud of progressively complex print texts. At higher levels of the progression, students demonstrate comprehension of a text …
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Grammar description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at creating written texts with higher levels of grammatical accuracy. Students display an increasing ability to compose coherent and cohesive texts across all areas of the curriculum …
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Handwriting and keyboarding description
This sub-element describes how a student uses handwriting and keyboarding skills with increasing speed, accuracy and fluency to compose and edit text, or complete tasks for different purposes. It describes how a student develops a fluent, legible handwriting …
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Phonic knowledge and word recognition description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at using letter-sound relationships and visual knowledge as code-breaking skills. Phonic knowledge and word recognition are among the range of resources students use as they read …
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Spelling description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient in selecting and arranging letters to form accurately spelt words. Students develop increasing skill and proficiency in using spelling as a tool to understand and create meaning …
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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 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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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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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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UnT10
Comprehension reads and views moderately complex or some sophisticated texts (see Text complexity) interprets abstract or more remote content analyses visual text to identify point of view recognises layers of meaning synthesises information from …
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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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CrT10
Generic indicators organises related information and ideas into paragraphs/sections uses a range of complex punctuation flexibly and correctly (see Punctuation) spells complex and most challenging words correctly (see Spelling) uses a range of …
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UnT8
Comprehension reads and views some moderately complex texts (see Text complexity) identifies author’s perspective accurately retells a text including most relevant details evaluates the accuracy of texts on the same topic or texts that present differing …
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UnT11
Comprehension reads and views sophisticated texts (see Text complexity) interprets symbolism in texts, providing evidence to justify interpretation derives a generalisation from abstract ideas in texts critically evaluates the use of visual elements …
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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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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 …
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CrT7
Crafting ideas writes informative, imaginative and persuasive texts using evidence of structure (to recount a personal experience or a sequence of events; to describe a person, thing or process; to provide a reason why; to provide an opinion backed …
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