What is literacy?
Literacy is fundamental to a student’s ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society. In the Australian Curriculum, … students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently …
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What is the focus of the literacy progression?
Literacy development influences student success in many areas of learning at school. The progression can be used to support students to successfully engage with the literacy demands of the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum. The National Literacy …
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Literacy learning area advice
The learning area advice resources can assist teachers in providing an illustration of how the progressions may be used in learning areas, other than Mathematics and English, to support students’ literacy and numeracy development. They provide authentic …
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How is the literacy progression structured?
Elements and sub-elements The National Literacy Learning Progression has three elements that reflect aspects of literacy development necessary for successful learners of the F–10 Australian Curriculum and in everyday life. The three elements, which align …
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How can the literacy progression be used?
The National Literacy Learning Progression can be used at a whole school, team or individual teacher level. However, the progression provides maximum student learning benefits when used as part of a whole-school strategy that involves professional learning …
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How is the literacy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Literacy skills are explicit in the Australian Curriculum: English. However, literacy is strengthened, made specific and extended in other learning areas. Literacy enables students to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, …
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How does the literacy progression cater to students for whom English is an additional language or dialect?
The Shape of the Australian Curriculum describes ACARA’s commitment to supporting equity of access to the Australian Curriculum for all students. As part of this commitment, ACARA developed Student diversity advice and the English as an Additional Language …
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Phonic knowledge and word recognition description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at using letter-sound relationships and visual knowledge as code-breaking skills. Phonic knowledge and word recognition are among the range of resources students use as they read …
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Listening description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at building meaning from a variety of spoken and audio texts. It includes active listening processes to access and understand the increasingly sophisticated language structures of …
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Interacting description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at active listening, strategic and respectful questioning and using language to share information and negotiate meaning and outcomes. Students interact across an increasing range …
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Speaking description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient at selecting language to express and share ideas, appropriate to audience, purpose and task – in planned speaking situations. This sub-element includes the development of skills …
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Phonological awareness description
Phonological awareness is the term used to describe the awareness of the constituent sounds of spoken words which can be distinguished in three ways: by syllables, by onset and rime and by phoneme (the smallest unit of spoken word) Phonemic awareness …
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Understanding texts description
Understanding texts describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient in decoding, using, interacting with, analysing and evaluating texts to build meaning. Texts include components of print, image, sound, animated movements and symbolic representations. …
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PDF documents
Literacy Learning progression Introduction to the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions National Literacy Learning Progression Appendices 1 to 5 Appendix 6 - Text complexity
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UnT5
Comprehension reads and views simple texts independently (see Text complexity) listens to texts to engage with learning area content (a text about family histories) views and discusses the content and features of texts with predictable structures …
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SpG5
represents all phonemes when attempting to spell one- and two-syllable words writes correctly a range of words from the hundred high-frequency words correctly (class) spells less familiar words using regular phonemic graphemic patterns (sum for some) writes …
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SpG8
writes most common and high-frequency words correctly writes common words with silent letters correctly (white) writes some common contractions correctly (won’t, don’t) uses three-letter consonant blends in words correctly (three, string, splash) uses …
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SpG11
writes irregular plurals correctly (mice) spells words with less common silent letters correctly (caught, debt) explains how the spellings and meanings of some words have changed over time explains how words are spelt using a combination of strategies …
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SpG13
spells a range of challenging words with less common letter groupings (naive, cadence) spells words with less common prefixes and suffixes (im-precise, employ-ee) spells less common plurals (foci) explains how spelling can be a support to both reading …
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UnT7
Comprehension reads and views predictable texts and some moderately complex texts (see Text complexity) identifies the main idea in a predictable text identifies the purpose of predictable texts and moderately complex texts monitors the development of …
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