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. …
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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 …
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Fluency description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly faster, smoother, more accurate and expressive in their reading aloud of progressively complex print texts. At higher levels of the progression, students demonstrate comprehension of a text …
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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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Speaking description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at selecting language to express and share ideas, appropriate to audience, purpose and task – in planned speaking situations. This sub-element includes the development of skills …
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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 …
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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 literacy progression structured?
Elements and sub-elements The National Literacy Learning Progression has three elements that reflect aspects of literacy development necessary for successful learners of the F–10 Australian Curriculum and in everyday life. The three elements, which align …
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PKW9
Phonic knowledge and word recognition uses grapheme-phoneme knowledge and blending skills to read continuous texts containing multisyllabic, complex and unfamiliar words quickly and accurately (see Understanding texts, Fluency)
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LiS6
responds to texts with unfamiliar content identifies main ideas of a spoken text using supporting details identifies purpose and intended audience of a spoken text infers meaning from texts that contain features such as music and environmental sounds asks …
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FlY3
reads aloud a decodable or simple text at a reasonable pace, grouping words into meaningful phrases (see Understanding texts) uses punctuation cues and some intonation and expression reads accurately at an efficient pace without overt sounding and …
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FlY5
reads aloud a range of moderately complex texts with fluency and phrasing, adjusting pace, volume, pitch and pronunciation to enhance meaning and expression varies pace according to purpose and audience reads aloud with expression that reflects the …
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UnT4
Comprehension reads and views simple texts with adult support (see Text complexity) demonstrates understanding of a range of texts read by adults makes relevant comments or asks relevant questions to demonstrate understanding of the text makes connections …
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UnT10
Comprehension reads and views moderately complex or some sophisticated texts (see Text complexity) interprets abstract or more remote content analyses visual text to identify point of view recognises layers of meaning synthesises information from …
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UnT11
Comprehension reads and views sophisticated texts (see Text complexity) interprets symbolism in texts, providing evidence to justify interpretation derives a generalisation from abstract ideas in texts critically evaluates the use of visual elements …
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