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 …
Spelling | Writing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Operating with percentages description
This sub-element focuses on understanding the use of percentages in representing quantities. It begins with understanding the concept of a percentage, progresses through calculations of a percentage, finding a percentage change first through two steps …
Operating with percentages | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
7-10 Geography - Year 7
Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing Content descriptions with elaborations: Evaluate sources for their reliability and usefulness and select, collect and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from appropriate …
7-10 Geography - Year 7 | Digital media literacy | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Years 5 and 6 Chinese
The nature of the learners Students use their bilingual and bicultural capabilities and understandings within the world of their own experience and imagination and draw on some topics from other learning areas. They are extending their knowledge of language …
Years 5 and 6 | Years F–10 Sequence | Background Language Learner Pathway | Chinese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Italian
The nature of the learners Students have prior experience of learning Italian and bring a range of capabilities, strategies and knowledge that can be applied to new learning. They are expanding the range and nature of their learning experiences and of …
Years 9 and 10 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 3 and 4 Japanese
The nature of the learners At this level, children are developing awareness of their social worlds and of their memberships of various groups, including of the Japanese class. They are further developing literacy capabilities in English, and while this …
Years 3 and 4 | Years F–10 Sequence | Japanese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Auslan
The nature of the learners This stage of learning coincides with social, physical and cognitive changes associated with adolescence. Learners at this level are developing their cognitive and social capabilities and their communicative repertoire in the …
Years 9 and 10 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | First Language Learner Pathway | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
ACMGM027
classify a categorical variable as ordinal, such as income level (high, medium, low), or nominal, such as place of birth (Australia, overseas), and use tables and bar charts to organise and display the data
ACMGM027 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSBL063
Conduct investigations, including the use of probabilities to predict inheritance patterns, real or virtual gel electrophoresis, and population simulations to predict population changes, safely, competently and methodically for the collection of valid …
ACSBL063 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Visual Arts
In Visual Arts, students: build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints refine their personal aesthetic through working …
Years 9 and 10 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Additive strategies description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to choose and use additive computational strategies for different purposes. The transition from counting by one to more flexible methods of dealing with quantity, where numbers are treated …
Additive strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Interpreting fractions description
This sub-element emphasises the development of the fraction concept and the size of fractions rather than the development of procedures or algorithmic skills. Understanding the size of a fraction is an indicator of the depth of a student’s understanding …
Interpreting fractions | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Years 5 and 6 Modern Greek
The nature of the learners At this level, students are widening their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in their first language and Modern Greek. They continue to need guidance, and participate in structured, collaborative tasks …
Years 5 and 6 | Years F–10 Sequence | Modern Greek | Languages | F-10 curriculum
English - Year 8
Visual language Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA1548) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on the …
English - Year 8 | Competencies and skills | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
The impact of contact and migration on South Australian language groups
Woodville High School is a government school located in the western suburbs of Adelaide, 10km from the CBD on the traditional lands of the Kaurna People. The school has a total enrolment of 971 students, of whom 15% are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait …
The impact of contact and migration on South Australian language groups | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
Primary matters - Issue 18 - Digital Technologies, June 2019
“Digital Technologies empowers students to shape change by influencing how contemporary and emerging information systems and practices are applied to meet current and future needs. A deep knowledge and understanding of information systems enables students …
Primary matters - Issue 18 - Digital Technologies, June 2019 | Publications | Resources and publications
Elaboration ACELA1505
observing how writers use the beginning of a sentence to signal to the reader how the text is developing (for example 'Snakes are reptiles. They have scales and no legs. Many snakes are poisonous. However, in Australia they are protected')
Elaboration | ACELA1505 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGK052
investigating a significant landscape that is threatened by human activities and developing a proposal for the future of the landscape that takes account of the views of the diverse groups, including traditional owners, with an interest in its use or …
Elaboration (1) | ACHGK052 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACAVAM121
researching widely to find the most appropriate sources of information about visual arts skills, use of materials, traditional and contemporary styles, display options, and sources for ideas when developing their own artwork
Elaboration (3) | ACAVAM121 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACLTUC006
building vocabulary skills and developing appreciation of language by participating in shared readings of simple stories that use repetition and recycling of phrases or actions, such as Cin Ali, Keloğlan
Elaboration (4) | ACLTUC006 | Content Descriptions | Foundation to Year 2 | Years F–10 Sequence | Turkish | Languages | F-10 curriculum