A guide to the progressions for parents
Literacy and numeracy development influences students’ success in most aspects of schooling. The National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions are a resource that describe how literacy and numeracy learning develops over time. There are two progressions …
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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 …
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Interacting description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at active listening, strategic and respectful questioning and using language to share information and negotiate meaning and outcomes. Students interact across an increasing range …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 can the numeracy progression be used?
The National Numeracy 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 is the literacy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Literacy skills are explicit in the Australian Curriculum: English. However, literacy is strengthened, made specific and extended in other learning areas. Literacy enables students to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, …
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How is the numeracy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Numeracy skills are explicit teaching in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Students need opportunities to recognise that mathematics is constantly used outside the mathematics classroom and that numerate people apply general mathematical skills …
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How is the numeracy progression structured?
Elements and sub-elements The National Numeracy Learning Progression has three elements that reflect aspects of numeracy development necessary for successful learners of the F–10 Australian Curriculum and in everyday life. The three elements are: Number …
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FlY2
reads decodable texts by phrasing two words at a time with some attention to expression
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AdS1
Emergent strategies combines two groups of objects and attempts to find the total compares two quantities of up to 10 and states which group has more
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AdS3
Figurative (imagined units) solves additive tasks involving two concealed collections of items by visualising, counting from one to determine the total
AdS3 | Additive strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
UnM7
Giving change uses complementary addition (the shopkeeper’s method of adding change to obtain the amount tendered) to determine the difference between two amounts, rounding as necessary
UnM7 | Understanding money | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
NPA8
Algebraic expressions creates and identifies algebraic expressions from word problems involving two operations and one unknown recognises equivalent algebraic expressions
NPA8 | Number patterns and algebraic thinking | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
AdS7
Flexible strategies with two-digit numbers applies knowledge of 10 as a unit to add and subtract 2 two-digit numbers (jump strategy, split strategy or compensation) manipulates tens and ones flexibly for addition and subtraction (to add 45 and 37, …
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InF6
Fractions as numbers connects the concepts of fractions and division: a fraction is a quotient, or a division statement (two-sixths is the same as 2 ÷ 6 or 2 partitioned into 6 equal parts) justifies where to place fractions on a number line (to place …
InF6 | Interpreting fractions | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
UuM1
Describing length identifies the attribute of length (using gestures) identifies the longest object using direct comparison compares the length of two objects by aligning the ends uses everyday language to describe attributes that can be measur …
UuM1 | Understanding units of measurement | Measurement and geometry | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
PhA3
orally blends two or three phonemes together to make a one-syllable word (a-sh, s-u-n, b-i-n, sh-i-p) orally segments words of two or three phonemes into separate phonemes (c-a-t, s-u-n, k-i-ck) identifies the number of phonemes that make up a spoken …
PhA3 | Phonological awareness | Reading and viewing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources