English · Year 1

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways VCELA176 Understand concepts about print and screen, including how different types of texts are organised using page numbering, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, bars and links VCELA177 Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts VCELA189 Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands VCELA190

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances VCELA178 Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) VCELA179 Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning VCELA180 Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts VCELA202

Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends VCELA181 Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns VCELA182 Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound VCELA183 Understand how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words, and that some high-frequency words have regular and irregular spelling components VCELA184 Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes in word families VCELA191 Identify the separate phonemes in consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of syllables VCELA203 Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words VCELA204

Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that many people may use sign systems to communicate with others VCELA198 Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication VCELA199 Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands VCELA200 Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions VCELA201

Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication VCELT192 Build on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary VCELT193

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images VCELT205

Express preferences for specific texts and authors and listen to the opinions of others VCELT206 Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences VCELT207

Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts VCELT208 Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme VCELT209

Respond to texts drawn from a range of cultures and experiences VCELY185

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features VCELY186 Read texts with familiar features and structures using developing phrasing, fluency, phonic, semantic, contextual, and grammatical knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, including prediction, monitoring meaning and rereading VCELY187 Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, and identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts VCELY188

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements VCELY194 Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation VCELY195 Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters VCELY196 Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs VCELY197

Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions, taking turns and recognising the contributions of others VCELY210 Make short presentations, speaking clearly and using appropriate voice and pace, and using some introduced text structures and language VCELY211