Text Structure & Organisation
Identify features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text, and understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience
VCELA277
Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout
VCELA278
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives
VCELA290
Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech
VCELA291
Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas
Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts
VCELA279
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
VCELA280
Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text
VCELA281
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases
VCELA292
Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources, including vocabulary encountered in research, into own texts
VCELA293
Phonic & Word Knowledge
Understand how to use phonic generalisations to identify and write words with more complex letter combinations
VCELA294
Understand how to use spelling patterns and generalisations including syllabification, letter combinations including double letters, and morphemic knowledge to build word families
VCELA295
Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling
VCELA296
Language for Interacting With Others
Understand that Standard Australian English is one of many social dialects used in Australia, and that while it originated in England it has been influenced by many other languages
VCELA303
Understand that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others
VCELA304
Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording
VCELA305
Literature & Contexts
Engaging With & Responding to Literature
Examining Literature
Creating Literature
Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating
Read different types of texts for specific purposes by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming, scanning and reviewing
VCELY287
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
VCELY288
Compare and evaluate two texts presenting the same ideas and analyse why one is more comprehensible or engaging than the other
VCELY289
Creating Texts
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
VCELY299
Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
VCELY300
Handwrite using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity
VCELY301
Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements
VCELY302
Interacting with Others
Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and use interaction skills
VCELY307
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular audiences and purposes such as informative, persuasive and imaginative, including multimodal elements
VCELY308