English · Foundation

Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people AC9EFLA01 Explore different ways of using language to express preferences, likes and dislikes AC9EFLA02

Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts AC9EFLA03 Understand conventions of print and screen, including how books and simple digital texts are usually organised AC9EFLA04

Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas AC9EFLA05 Recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning AC9EFLA06 Explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts AC9EFLA07 Recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school AC9EFLA08 Identify punctuation as a feature of written text different from letters; recognise that capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters also signal the beginning of sentences while punctuation marks signal the end AC9EFLA09

Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators AC9EFLE01

Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters AC9EFLE02

Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings AC9EFLE03 Explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts such as poems, rhymes and songs AC9EFLE04

Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing AC9EFLE05

Identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose AC9EFLY01

Interact in informal and structured situations by listening while others speak and using features of voice including volume levels AC9EFLY02

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts AC9EFLY03 Read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, and monitor meaning using context and emerging grammatical knowledge AC9EFLY04 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently AC9EFLY05

Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly AC9EFLY06 Create and deliver short spoken texts to report ideas and events to peers, using features of voice such as appropriate volume AC9EFLY07 Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations AC9EFLY08

Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness) AC9EFLY09 Segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness) AC9EFLY10 Recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents AC9EFLY11 Write consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) words by representing sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC AC9EFLY12 Use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell words AC9EFLY13 Read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words AC9EFLY14 Understand that words are units of meaning and can be made of more than one meaningful part AC9EFLY15