Level 4 – Literacy Demands within the Victorian Essential Learning Standards

Literacy is within the Victorian Essential Learning Standards.

Each of the domains clearly identifies the literacy demands to support students to use the literacy of the domain and to use literacy to learn.

“Every teacher is a teacher of literacy”
(Literacy Teaching and Learning in Victorian Schools Research eLert Paper NO. 9 Part A)

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

• Health and Physical Education
• Interpersonal Development
• Personal Learning
• Civics and Citizenship

Discipline-based Learning

• The Arts
• Economics
• Geography
• History
• Mathematics
• Science

Interdisciplinary Learning

• Design, Creativity and Technology
• Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
• Thinking Processes

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