Phonological awareness description
Phonological awareness is the term used to describe the awareness of the constituent sounds of spoken words which can be distinguished in three ways: by syllables, by onset and rime and by phoneme (the smallest unit of spoken word) Phonemic awareness …
Phonological awareness | Reading and viewing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
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 …
Phonic knowledge and word recognition | Reading and viewing | 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
Number patterns and algebraic thinking description
Figuring out how a pattern works brings predictability and allows the making of generalisations. This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to identify a pattern as something that is a discernible regularity in a group of numbers …
Number patterns and algebraic thinking | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Understanding units of measurement description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise attributes that can be measured and how units of measure are used and calculated. In making the transition from informal to formal units, a student attends to the structure …
Understanding units of measurement | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Measuring time description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly aware of the passage of time. A student appreciates units of time are associated with regularly occurring events, such as the rotation of Earth or the swing of a pendulum. They apply units …
Measuring time | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Interpreting and representing data description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to recognise and use visual and numerical displays to describe data associated with statistical investigations, and to critically evaluate investigations by others. Making sense of data …
Interpreting and representing data | Statistics and probability | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
How are the progressions and the Australian Curriculum related?
In the Australian Curriculum, learning area content describes the knowledge, understanding and skills that are to be taught in each year or band of years. Achievement standards describe the learning expected of students at each year level or band of years. …
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Understanding texts description
Understanding texts describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient in decoding, using, interacting with, analysing and evaluating texts to build meaning. Texts include components of print, image, sound, animated movements and symbolic representations. …
Understanding texts | Reading and viewing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Quantifying numbers description
Although number is an abstract concept which can be represented by a word, a symbol (numeral) or an image, it is central to quantitative thinking. This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to count, recognise, read and interpret …
Quantifying numbers | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
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
Operating with decimals description
This sub-element focuses on understanding the use of place value in operating with decimals. Decimals are better suited to estimating magnitude than fractions because decimals use the base-ten system to record quantity and fractions do not. However, the …
Operating with decimals | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Understanding money description
The descriptive term decimal applied to money refers to the basic conversion units being multiples of ten. However, money is not a true decimal system. Amounts such as $2.99 are spoken as two whole numbers (2 dollars 99) and, due to the withdrawal of …
Understanding money | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) description
This sub-element addresses comparing units in ratios, rates and proportions. A ratio describes a situation in comparative terms, and a proportion is taken to mean when this comparison is used to describe a related situation in the same comparative terms. …
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | 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
Multiplicative strategies description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to use multiplicative strategies in computation. The coordination of units multiplicatively involves using the values of one unit applied to each of the units of the other, the multiplier. …
Multiplicative strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
“We keep evolving, we have a go at it”
Sanderson Middle School is a government school in Darwin. It is located on the traditional lands of the Larrakia People and has an enrolment of 375 students, of whom 35% are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. This school story reveals how teachers …
“We keep evolving, we have a go at it” | Illustrations of practice | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Resources
How can the benefits of the progressions be maximised?
Whole school In a school, the benefits of the progressions are maximised where there is a whole-school, systematic approach to literacy and numeracy development that ensures: opportunities for professional dialogue and collaboration to strengthen teacher …
How can the benefits of the progressions be maximised? | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: 7-10 Geography
The Australian Curriculum: Geography has an important role in supporting young people to become responsible and informed consumers. Geography supports the development of the following dimensions of consumer and financial literacy. Approximate proportion …
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St Felix Catholic Primary School
St Felix school staff studied the school data to find programs that would address the needs of the student cohort. The school employed a numeracy coordinator to assist teachers to develop strategies to teach the mathematics curriculum through the proficiencies. …
St Felix Catholic Primary School | Illustrations of practice | Mathematics proficiencies | Resources