Literacy learning area advice
The learning area advice resources can assist teachers in providing an illustration of how the progressions may be used in learning areas, other than Mathematics and English, to support students’ literacy and numeracy development. They provide authentic …
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Listening description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at building meaning from a variety of spoken and audio texts. It includes active listening processes to access and understand the increasingly sophisticated language structures of …
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What is literacy?
Literacy is fundamental to a student’s ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society. In the Australian Curriculum, … students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently …
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How does the literacy progression cater to students for whom English is an additional language or dialect?
The Shape of the Australian Curriculum describes ACARA’s commitment to supporting equity of access to the Australian Curriculum for all students. As part of this commitment, ACARA developed Student diversity advice and the English as an Additional Language …
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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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LiS5
listens to texts to engage with learning area content recalls specific information from a learning area text attends to sequence when recounting ideas listens to a familiar story and retells, making minor adaptations if needed selects appropriate …
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SpK7
speaks on topics which explore and interpret concepts drawn from research or learning area content selects voice appropriate to purpose (third person to create distance and authority or first person to achieve personal connection) uses ideas and language …
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SpK8
speaks on topics which explore issues drawn from research or learning area content includes a range of alternative viewpoints in spoken texts, where appropriate controls and manipulates a sophisticated range of language features to affect the audience uses …
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SpK5
delivers sustained spoken texts on a broad range of learning area topics includes details and elaborations to expand ideas uses connectives to signal a change in perspective (however, although, on the other hand) or to show causal relationships (due …
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CrT8
Generic indicators tense mostly correct throughout text (see Grammar) consistently writes compound sentences correctly and uses a greater range of complex sentences (see Grammar) uses a variety of sentence structures and sentence beginnings spells …
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UnT5
Comprehension reads and views simple texts independently (see Text complexity) listens to texts to engage with learning area content (a text about family histories) views and discusses the content and features of texts with predictable structures …
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UnT9
Comprehension reads and views moderately complex texts (see Text complexity) identifies the main themes or concepts in moderately complex texts summarises the text identifying key details compares and contrasts the use of visual elements in multimodal …
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CrT6
Crafting ideas writes for a range of purposes (to recount a personal experience, to observe and describe, to provide a reason why, to express thoughts and feelings about a topic) writes four or more sequenced and clearly connected ideas includes …
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CrT9
Generic indicators maintains appropriate tense throughout the text (see Grammar) uses a range of sentences including correctly structured complex sentences (see Grammar) spells simple, most complex and some challenging words correctly (see Spelling) uses …
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CrT11
Generic indicators spells a range of challenging words correctly (see Spelling)
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