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

Elaboration (1) ACELA1443

learning some signs in Auslan and finding out about ‘Hear a Book’ and Braille technologies for hearing and visually impaired people

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1443 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1446

learning about the difference between closed questions, for example 'Are you ready?', 'Did they enjoy their holidays?' and open questions, for example 'What made this text so exciting?'

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1446 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1787

considering how others might respond before students express their views and how students might respond to others’ views in civil and constructive ways

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1787 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1447

becoming familiar with the typical stages of types of text including recount and procedure

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1447 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1448

discussing different types of texts and identifying some characteristic features and elements (for example language patterns and repetition) in stories and poetry

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1448 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1449

reading texts and identifying different sentence-level punctuation

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1449 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1451

understanding that a simple sentence expresses a single idea, represented grammatically by a single independent clause (for example 'A kangaroo is a mammal. A mammal suckles its young')

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1451 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1452

learning how a sentence can be made more vivid by adding adjectives, adverbs and unusual verbs

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1452 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1457

replacing initial sounds in spoken words, for example replace the ‘m’ in ‘mat’ with ‘c’ to form a new word ‘cat’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1457 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1458

using knowledge of letters sounds to write single-syllable words with consonant digraphs and consonant blends, for example ‘wish’ and ‘rest’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1458 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1459

recognising sounds that can be produced by different letters, for example the ‘s’ sound in ‘sat’ and ‘cent’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1459 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1455

using morphemes to read words, for example by recognising the base word in words such as ‘walk-ed’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1455 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1822

segmenting blends at the beginning and end of given words, for example ‘b-l-ue’ and ‘d-u-s-t’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1822 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELT1581

identifying how spiritual beings are represented in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories

Elaboration (1) | ACELT1581 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELT1582

comparing characters and events in texts to students’ own experiences

Elaboration (1) | ACELT1582 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELT1583

discussing different texts and considering what is entertaining or appealing and why

Elaboration (1) | ACELT1583 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELT1584

discussing similarities and differences between texts ( for example features of main characters in different stories)

Elaboration (1) | ACELT1584 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELT1585

listening to and performing simple haiku poems about familiar topics such as nature and the seasons

Elaboration (1) | ACELT1585 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum