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

ACELY1652

Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELY1652 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1432

Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1432 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1426

Understand that English is one of many languages spoken in Australia and that different languages may be spoken by family, classmates and community

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1818

Understand that words are units of meaning and can be made of more than one meaningful part

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1818 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELY1784

learning to ask questions and provide answers that are more than one or two words

Elaboration (1) | ACELY1784 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1650

relating one or two key facts from informative texts

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1650 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1649

navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word

Elaboration | ACELY1649 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1819

identifying onset and rime in one-syllable spoken words, for example ‘d-og’ and ‘b-ig’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1819 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1818

learning that words are made up of meaningful parts, for example ’dogs’ has two meaningful parts ’dog’ and ’s’ meaning more than one

Elaboration | ACELA1818 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1819

blending phonemes to form one-syllable spoken words, for example ‘s-u-n’ is orally expressed as ‘sun’ and ‘b-a-g’ is orally expressed as ‘bag’

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1819 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1426

learning that different languages exist; discussing the various languages encountered in the community and at school; acknowledging the home languages of students who speak another language, and valuing the ability to speak more than one language

Elaboration | ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum