Government Standards
Australian Curriculum
Language Arts - Grade K
Assessment Exam - Australian Curriculum - Foundation Year English| Language | eTAP Lesson |
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| Language variation and change | |
| Understand that English is one of many languages spoken in Australia and that different languages may be spoken by family, classmates and community
AU.FY.ACELA1426 |
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| Language for interaction | |
| Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people
AU.FY.ACELA1428 |
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| Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes
AU.FY.ACELA1429 |
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| Text structure and organisation | |
| Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes
AU.FY.ACELA1430 |
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| Understand that some language in written texts is unlike everyday spoken language
AU.FY.ACELA1431 |
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| Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences
AU.FY.ACELA1432 |
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| Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality
AU.FY.ACELA1433 |
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| Expressing and developing ideas | |
| Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas
AU.FY.ACELA1435 |
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| Recognise that texts are made up of words and groups of words that make meaning
AU.FY.ACELA1434 |
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| Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts
AU.FY.ACELA1786 |
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| Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school
AU.FY.ACELA1437 |
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| Phonics and word knowledge | |
| Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
AU.FY.ACELA1439 |
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| Recognise and name all upper and lower case letters (graphemes) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
AU.FY.ACELA1440 |
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| Understand how to use knowledge of letters and sounds including onset and rime to spell words
AU.FY.ACELA1438 |
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| Know how to read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words
AU.FY.ACELA1817 |
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| Understand that words are units of meaning and can be made of more than one meaningful part
AU.FY.ACELA1818 |
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| Segment sentences into individual words and orally blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words, and isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single syllable words
AU.FY.ACELA1819 |
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| Write consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words by representing some sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words
AU.FY.ACELA1820 |
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| Literature | eTAP Lesson |
| Literature and context | |
| Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
AU.FY.ACELT1575 |
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| Responding to literature | |
| Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
AU.FY.ACELT1577 |
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| Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
AU.FY.ACELT1783 |
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| Examining literature | |
| Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
AU.FY.ACELT1578 |
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| Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry
AU.FY.ACELT1785 |
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| Replicate the rhythms and sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs and poems from a range of cultures
AU.FY.ACELT1579 |
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| Creating literature | |
| Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
AU.FY.ACELT1580 |
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| Innovate on familiar texts through play
AU.FY.ACELT1831 |
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| Literacy | eTAP Lesson |
| Texts in context | |
| Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used
AU.FY.ACELY1645 |
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| Interacting with others | |
| Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations
AU.FY.ACELY1646 |
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| Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact
AU.FY.ACELY1784 |
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| Deliver short oral presentations to peers
AU.FY.ACELY1647 |
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| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | |
| Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts
AU.FY.ACELY1648 |
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| Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
AU.FY.ACELY1649 |
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| Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
AU.FY.ACELY1650 |
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| Creating texts | |
| Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
AU.FY.ACELY1651 |
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| Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
AU.FY.ACELY1652 |
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| Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
AU.FY.ACELY1653 |
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| Construct texts using software including word processing programs
AU.FY.ACELY1654 |
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