VELS Level 4

Speaking and listening

• Speaking and listening strategies – English – Outline of some strategies that can be used to develop student speaking and listening skills during reading and writing activities.
• Further speaking and listening strategies - Explanation of some strategies that can be used to develop student speaking and listening skills during reading and writing activities.
• Speaking and listening strategies for all VELS domains – Strategies that can be adapted to a single VELS domain or for programs that have multiple domains to support students in meeting the literacy demands of their learning.

Reading

• Reading - Strategies that can be used to develop student reading skills.
• Reading strategies for all VELS domains – Strategies that can be adapted to a single VELS domain or for programs that have multiple domains to support students in meeting the literacy demands of their learning.
• Reading for learning: Pause, Prompt, Praise – This is a strategy which aims to encourage students to monitor meaning from a text and to self-correct. It can be used any time the student is reading aloud.
• Reciprocal Teaching – Describes an instructional approach that takes place in the form of a dialogue between teachers and students as they read, talk about and critically think about a text.
  • Guided reading: Reciprocal teaching videos - In the following video clips teachers and their students demonstrate the strategies for reciprocal teaching: predicting, clarifying, question generating, and summarising.
• Collaborative Cloze – Describes a student learning activity which highlights the strategy of reciprocal teaching.
• Teaching reading using the Four Resources Model: Code breaking – Strategies, including ‘Word splash’, to help students break the code of the letters used in texts,.
• Teaching reading using the Four Resources Model: Text participating – Strategies, including ‘Three level guides’ to help students make literate and inferential meanings of texts.
• Teaching reading using the Four Resources Model: Text using – Strategies, including ‘Data charts’, to support students in their use of texts in real-life reading situations.
• Teaching reading using the Four Resources Model: Text analysing – Strategies, including ‘Four corners debate’ and ‘Writing on reading’, to help students to critically analyse texts in order to understand how texts work.

Writing

• Writing - Strategies that can be used to develop student writing skills.
• Writing strategies for all VELS domains – Strategies that can be adapted to a single VELS domain or for programs that have multiple domains to support students in meeting the literacy demands of their learning
• Independent writing – Describes the strategies of learning journals and writing for an audience that support students to deepen their learning and communicate with others.
• View teaching strategies for writing narratives in the English Developmental Continuum
  • Writing strategy: 3.25
  • Ideas communicated in writing: 3.50