Links to the Victorian Curriculum

Speaking and Listening, Language: Expressing and developing ideas

Foundation:

• Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school (VCELA167)

Speaking and Listening, Literacy: Interacting with others

Foundation:

• Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations using interaction skills, including listening, while others speak (VCELY174)
• Deliver short oral presentations to peers, using appropriate voice levels, articulation, body language, gestures and eye contact (VCELY175)

Writing, Language: Text structure and organisation

Foundation:

• Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters and recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences (VCELA156)

Writing, Language: Phonics and word knowledge

Foundation:

• Understand that spoken sounds and words can be written and know how to write some high-frequency words and other familiar words including their name (VCELA157)

Writing, Literacy: Creating texts

Foundation:

• Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (VCELY160)
• Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops (VCELY161)

Reading and Viewing, Language: Expressing and developing ideas

Foundation:

• Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (VCELA143)

Reading and Viewing, Phonics and word knowledge

Foundation:

• Recognise all upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound that each letter represents (VCELA146)

Reading and Viewing, Literature: Examining literature

Foundation:

• Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (VCELT150)

Pathway A

Speaking and listening

Level A1:

• Recognise and use words from lexical sets related to immediate communicative need, interest or experience (VCEALL026)
• Use a small range of grammatical patterns (VCEALL020)
• Understand the tense of statements or instructions by using time references (VCEALL021)
• Demonstrate variable placement of common adjectives to describe or add emphasis (VCEALL023)
• Demonstrate attentive listening behaviour (VCEALC001)
• Respond simply to questions and prompts (VCEALC002)
• Use some features of home language (VCEALA013)
• Borrow key words from previous speaker (VCEALL025)
• Negotiate simple social or learning activities (VCEALC003)

Level A2:

• Use words learnt from a range of classroom and social contexts (VCEALL108)
• Apply some grammatical rules but may overgeneralise for irregular forms (VCEALL102)
• Use a small range of common verb forms accurately (VCEALL103)
• Understand phrases describing place or location (VCEALL105)
• Demonstrate active listening and follow speech (VCEALC083)
• Respond appropriately in a range of common social and classroom situations (VCEALC084)
• Use sentence patterns from home language to communicate ideas (VCEALA095)
• Identify key words and ideas from short, familiar spoken texts supported by context (VCEALL107)
• Negotiate familiar social and learning situations using language appropriate to the situation (VCEALC085)

Reading and viewing

Level A1:

• Recognise some letters of the alphabet (VCEALL049)
• Identify some sounds in words (VCEALL050)
• Understand and explore the basic features of different texts (VCEALL043)
• Recognise and explore different types of text (VCEALL042)

Level A2:

• Recognise all letters of the alphabet (VCEALL130)
• Relate most letters of the alphabet to sounds (VCEALL131)
• Understand and use the basic features of different texts (VCEALL042)
• Identify and compare differences in text genres (VCEALL123)

Writing

Level A1:

• Use appropriate letter size, spacing and letter formation (VCEALL078)
• Experiment with some familiar punctuation (VCEALL079)
• Write some high-frequency words related to personal experience and school context (VCEALL076)
• Write a simple text that fulfils a function (VCEALC057)
• Reread own texts or sentences written by another (VCEALA063)
• Contribute ideas, words or sentences to a class or group shared story (VCEALA062)
• Copy well-known symbols, words, phrases or short texts (VCEALC055)
• Use some conventions from home language when writing (VCEALA065)
• Illustrate a simple text (VCEALC058)
• Use some common noun–verb and adjective–noun combinations (VCEALL074)
• Handwrite, draw or choose materials with particular care when writing for special purposes (VCEALA064)

Level A2:

• Write legibly (VCEALL157)
• Use some punctuation consistently (VCEALL158)
• Use high-frequency words encountered in classroom activities (VCEALL155)
• Write a small range of everyday texts and personal texts (VCEALC138)
• Demonstrate understanding that handwritten texts usually need to be planned, edited and presented (VCEALA143)
• Write short, simple texts independently (VCEALC136)
• Model writing on other texts (VCEALA145)
• Illustrate texts purposefully (VCEALC139)
• Write common nouns and adjectives in the correct order in formulaic structures (VCEALL153)
• Use a range of writing implements and writing styles for different purposes (VCEALA144)

Historical concepts and skills: Historical sources as evidence

Foundation to Level 2:

• Identify perspectives about changes to daily life from people in the past or present (VCHHC055)

Historical Knowledge: Personal histories

Foundation to Level 2:

• Who the people in their family are, describe where they were born and raised and how they are related to each other and how their stories are communicated and shared (VCHHK058)

Geographical Knowledge: Places and our connections to them

Foundation to Level 2:

• Natural, managed and constructed features of places, their location and how they change (VCGGK068)

Geographical Concepts and Skills: Data and information

Foundation to Level 2:

• Collect and record geographical data and information from the field and other sources (VCGGC060)