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Victorian Curriculum Match Years 3–6

01/11/19

Year 3 Victorian Curriculum MatchReading and ViewingStrand Sub-strand Content Descriptions English Stars Modules

Language Text structure and organisation

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences (VCELA246)

1.4 Persuasive Essay Structure1.6 Persuasive Language2.2 Plot2.4 Interesting Introductions2.6 Quoted Speech3.2 Recount Structure3.6 Tense 14.2 Review Structure4.4 Text Types5.2 Tense 25.4 Procedural Text Structure5.6 Sequence Words5.7 Using the Internet5.17 Visual Procedure Structure6.3 Revise Plot6.4 Revise Quoted Speech6.6 Reported Speech7.4 Explanation Structure8.6 Quatrains8.10 Cinquains8.13 Haikus

Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation (VCELA247)

5.7 Using the Internet

Expressing and developing ideas

Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, including shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments (VCELA248)

5.16 Taking Photos5.17 Visual Procedure Structure6.2 Different Ways to Tell a Story6.14 Task – Publish Your Story

Phonics and word knowledge

Understand how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters (VCELA249)

This descriptor is covered by Spelling Spot (patterns). For more information see the Year 3 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.

Recognise most high-frequency words, know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and know some homophones and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word (VCELA250)

This descriptor is covered by Spelling Spot (homophones, compound words, prefixes and suffixes). For more information see the Year 3 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.

Literature Responding to literature

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (VCELT251)

1.1 Understanding Text1.5 Comprehension – All Children Should Play Sport1.9 Comprehension – Books Are Better than Films1.13 Comprehension – Experience Teaches Us More than Books2.5 Comprehension – The Tortoise and the Hare2.9 Comprehension – Kangaroo and Hermit Crab2.13 Comprehension – The Fox and the Crow3.1 Comprehension – Are We There Yet?3.5 Comprehension – Sophie Scott Goes South3.9 Comprehension – Diary of a Soccer Star4.1 Comprehension – Review of The Angry Birds Movie4.3 Comprehension – Review of Untitled4.7 Making Connections4.11 Comprehension – Review of UNO5.1 Comprehension – Ant Antics5.5 Comprehension – Short Cuts to Glory: Smashed Potatoes 5.9 Comprehension – Impossible Invisibility Spray5.13 Comprehension – How to Make an Earth Oven6.1 Comprehension – Deadly D and Justice Jones: Making the Team

The tables on these pages list the three language modes and their associated strands, sub-strands and content descriptions from the Victorian Curriculum, and the English Stars 3 modules that match these descriptions.

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6.5 Comprehension – The Cinderella Letters6.9 Visualising6.10 Comprehension – Fantastic Mr Fox7.1 Comprehension – How Does Milk Get to Your Fridge?7.5 Comprehension – BTN: Bark Canoe7.9 Comprehension – Why Do the Seasons Change?7.12 Comprehension – How Is Snooker Played?8.1 Comprehension – What Is Poetry?8.4 Comprehension – Monkey8.8 Comprehension – What Is a Cinquain?8.12 Comprehension – What Is a Haiku?

Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature (VCELT252)

2.4 Interesting Introductions2.8 Character Profiles6.2 Different Ways to Tell a Story

Examining literature

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative (VCELT253)

2.3 Adjectives 12.4 Interesting Introductions2.8 Character Profiles

Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose (VCELT254)

2.3 Adjectives 18.2 Syllables8.3 Rhyme8.5 Onomatopoeia8.6 Quatrains8.9 Similes and Metaphors8.10 Cinquains8.13 Haikus

Literacy Texts in context

Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view (VCELY255)

2.15 Task – Play Character Hot Seat

Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Read an increasing range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge, using text processing strategies, including confirming, rereading and cross-checking (VCELY256)

1.1 Understanding Text1.5 Comprehension – All Children Should Play Sport1.9 Comprehension – Books Are Better than Films1.13 Comprehension – Experience Teaches Us More than Books2.1 Predicting2.5 Comprehension – The Tortoise and the Hare2.9 Comprehension – Kangaroo and Hermit Crab2.10 Task – Compare Texts2.13 Comprehension – The Fox and the Crow3.1 Comprehension – Are We There Yet?3.5 Comprehension – Sophie Scott Goes South3.9 Comprehension – Diary of a Soccer Star4.1 Comprehension – Review of The Angry Birds Movie4.3 Comprehension – Review of Untitled4.7 Making Connections4.11 Comprehension – Review of UNO5.1 Comprehension – Ant Antics5.5 Comprehension – Short Cuts to Glory: Smashed Potatoes5.9 Comprehension – Impossible Invisibility Spray5.13 Comprehension – How to Make an Earth Oven6.1 Comprehension – Deadly D and Justice Jones: Making the Team6.5 Comprehension – The Cinderella Letters6.9 Visualising6.10 Comprehension – Fantastic Mr Fox6.13 Task – Complete the Comprehension Text7.1 Comprehension – How Does Milk Get to Your Fridge?7.2 Summarising7.5 Comprehension – BTN: Bark Canoe7.9 Comprehension – Why Do the Seasons Change?7.12 Comprehension – How Is Snooker Played?7.15 Interpret Images8.1 Comprehension – What Is Poetry?8.4 Comprehension – Monkey8.8 Comprehension – What Is a Cinquain?8.12 Comprehension – What Is a Haiku?

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Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (VCELY257)

1.1 Understanding Text1.5 Comprehension – All Children Should Play Sport1.9 Comprehension – Books Are Better than Films1.13 Comprehension – Experience Teaches Us More than Books2.1 Predicting2.5 Comprehension – The Tortoise and the Hare2.9 Comprehension – Kangaroo and Hermit Crab2.13 Comprehension – The Fox and the Crow3.1 Comprehension – Are We There Yet?3.5 Comprehension – Sophie Scott Goes South3.9 Comprehension – Diary of a Soccer Star4.1 Comprehension – Review of The Angry Birds Movie4.3 Comprehension – Review of Untitled4.7 Making Connections4.11 Comprehension – Review of UNO5.1 Comprehension – Ant Antics5.5 Comprehension – Short Cuts to Glory: Smashed Potatoes 5.9 Comprehension – Impossible Invisibility Spray5.13 Comprehension – How to Make an Earth Oven6.1 Comprehension – Deadly D and Justice Jones: Making the Team6.5 Comprehension – The Cinderella Letters6.9 Visualising6.10 Comprehension – Fantastic Mr Fox7.1 Comprehension – How Does Milk Get to Your Fridge?7.2 Summarising7.5 Comprehension – BTN: Bark Canoe7.9 Comprehension – Why Do the Seasons Change?7.12 Comprehension – How Is Snooker Played?8.1 Comprehension – What Is Poetry?8.4 Comprehension – Monkey8.8 Comprehension – What Is a Cinquain?8.12 Comprehension – What Is a Haiku?

Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating) (VCELY258)

1.11 Action Verbs1.15 Modal Verbs2.7 Saying Verbs3.6 Tense 14.5 Thinking and Feeling Verbs4.12 Subject–Verb Agreement5.2 Tense 27.7 Relating Verbs

WritingStrand Sub-strand


Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (VCELA259)

1.10 Paragraphs 12.11 Paragraphs 2

Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (VCELA260)

3.7 Contractions

This descriptor is also covered by Spelling Spot (contractions). For more information see the Year 3 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.


Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement (VCELA261)

4.9 Clauses4.12 Subject–Verb Agreement

Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense (VCELA262)

1.11 Action Verbs1.15 Modal Verbs2.7 Saying Verbs3.6 Tense 14.5 Thinking and Feeling Verbs5.2 Tense 27.7 Relating Verbs


Understand how to use letter–sound relationships and less common letter combinations to spell words (VCELA263)


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Literature Creating literature

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features (VCELT264)

2.12 Task – Write a Fable2.14 Task – Rewrite the Ending of a Fable5.16 Taking Photos6.8 Task – Write a Letter to a Character6.14 Task – Publish Your Story6.15 Task – Write a Story from Pictures

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts (VCELT265)

2.12 Task – Write a Fable6.12 Task – Write a Story6.15 Task – Write a Story from Pictures8.7 Task – Write Quatrains8.11 Task – Write a Cinquain8.14 Task – Write a Haiku

Literacy Creating texts Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (VCELY266)

1.4 Persuasive Essay Structure1.5 Comprehension – All Children Should Play Sport1.6 Persuasive Language1.8 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay1.9 Comprehension – Books Are Better than Films1.12 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster1.16 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay2.5 Comprehension – The Tortoise and the Hare2.9 Comprehension – Kangaroo and Hermit Crab2.12 Task – Write a Fable2.13 Comprehension – The Fox and the Crow2.14 Task – Rewrite the Ending of a Fable2.15 Task – Play Character Hot Seat3.4 Task – Write a Recount about Yesterday3.5 Comprehension – Sophie Scott Goes South3.8 Task – Write an Animal Diary3.12 Task – Write a Recount about a Robot4.1 Comprehension – Review of The Angry Birds Movie4.2 Review Structure4.3 Comprehension – Review of Untitled4.4 Text Types4.6 Task – Review an Artwork4.10 Task – Review an Animation4.13 Task – Publish Your Review5.4 Procedural Text Structure5.5 Comprehension – Short Cuts to Glory: Smashed Potatoes 5.8 Task – Write a Procedure5.9 Comprehension – Impossible Invisibility Spray5.12 Task – Write a Silly Science Procedure5.13 Comprehension – How to Make an Earth Oven6.1 Comprehension – Deadly D and Justice Jones: Making the Team6.2 Different Ways to Tell a Story6.8 Task – Write a Letter to a Character6.10 Comprehension – Fantastic Mr Fox6.12 Task – Write a Story6.14 Task – Publish Your Story6.15 Task – Write a Story from Pictures7.1 Comprehension – How Does Milk Get to Your Fridge?7.8 Task – Write an Explanation7.9 Comprehension – Why Do the Seasons Change?7.11 Task – Explain a Life Cycle7.12 Comprehension – How Is Snooker Played?7.14 Task – Write for a Younger Child7.16 Task – Publish Your Explanation8.1 Comprehension – What Is Poetry?8.4 Comprehension – Monkey8.7 Task – Write Quatrains8.8 Comprehension – What Is a Cinquain?8.11 Task – Write a Cinquain8.12 Comprehension – What Is a Haiku?8.14 Task – Write a Haiku8.15 Task – Publish Your Poetry

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Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation (VCELY267)

1.8 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay1.12 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster1.16 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay2.12 Task – Write a Fable2.14 Task – Rewrite the Ending of a Fable3.3 Proofreading Skills3.4 Task – Write a Recount about Yesterday3.8 Task – Write an Animal Diary3.12 Task – Write a Recount about a Robot4.6 Task – Review an Artwork4.10 Task – Review an Animation4.13 Task – Publish Your Review5.8 Task – Write a Procedure5.12 Task – Write a Silly Science Procedure5.14 Editing Skills6.8 Task – Write a Letter to a Character6.12 Task – Write a Story6.14 Task – Publish Your Story6.15 Task – Write a Story from Pictures7.8 Task – Write an Explanation7.11 Task – Explain a Life Cycle7.14 Task – Write for a Younger Child7.16 Task – Publish Your Explanation8.7 Task – Write Quatrains8.11 Task – Write a Cinquain8.14 Task – Write a Haiku8.15 Task – Publish Your Poetry

Understand the conventions for writing words and sentences using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size (VCELY268)

Throughout English Stars students will have opportunities to practise their handwriting fluency and automaticity.

Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements (VCELY269)

1.12 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster1.18 Design a Slideshow4.13 Task – Publish Your Review5.18 Revise Slideshow Design6.14 Task – Publish Your Story7.14 Task – Write for a Younger Child7.16 Task – Publish Your Explanation8.15 Task – Publish Your Poetry

Speaking and ListeningStrand Sub-strand

Language Language variation and change

Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning (VCELA270)

5.13 Comprehension – How to Make an Earth Oven 6.2 Different Ways to Tell a Story6.15 Task – Write a Story from Pictures

Language for interaction

Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations (VCELA271)

1.2 Passionate Discussions2.15 Task – Play Character Hot Seat6.7 Different Ways to Write and Speak7.10 How Do We Learn?

Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful (VCELA272)

4.8 Evaluative Language


Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (VCELA273)

1.6 Persuasive Language1.14 Modal Adverbs1.15 Modal Verbs2.8 Character Profiles3.13 Synonyms4.8 Evaluative Language5.3 Precise Vocabulary5.11 Adjectives 27.6 Technical Vocabulary

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Literature Literature and context

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (VCELT274)

2.10 Task – Compare Texts6.2 Different Ways to Tell a Story

Literacy Interacting with others

Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations and use interaction skills, including active listening and clear, coherent communications (VCELY275)

1.2 Passionate Discussions1.17 Oral Presentation Skills2.10 Task – Compare Texts2.12 Task – Write a Fable2.15 Task – Play Character Hot Seat3.14 Revise Oral Presentation Skills6.11 Task – Perform a Tableau7.10 How Do We Learn?7.17 Revise Oral Presentation Skills

Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence, using appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (VCELY276)

6.11 Task – Perform a Tableau

Note: Module 7.13 Statements, Questions and Exclamations revises content from the Year 1 Victorian Curriculum.Note: Modules 1.3 Common and Proper Nouns, 1.7 Simple and Compound Sentences, 3.10 Pronouns, 3.11 Conjunctions, 5.15 Commas in Lists and 7.3 Alphabet/Dictionary Strategies revises content from the Year 2 Victorian Curriculum. Note: Module 5.10 Prepositions is beyond the Year 3 achievement standard of the Victorian Curriculum.

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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)

1.12 Design a Poster1.15 Write a Speech2.2 Information Report Structure2.6 Informative Paragraphs2.8 Task – Write an Information Report2.10 Informative Language Features3.2 What Is a Story?3.3 Characters3.4 Setting3.6 Plot3.7 Task – Write a Story from a Plot Outline3.10 Task – Rewrite Billy’s Bad Day3.12 Explore Comic Strips3.14 Tension and Suspense4.6 Personal Response Structure4.8 Task – Respond to Artwork4.13 Task – Publish a Personal Response5.2 Fact or Opinion5.3 Persuasive Language 15.4 Task – Write Persuasive Paragraphs5.8 Persuasive Language 25.11 Persuasive Essay Structure5.12 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay6.3 Description Text Structure6.4 Task – Describe a Subject6.7 Task – Describe a Minibeast7.2 Genres7.4 Task – Review a Film7.7 Task – Retell a Story7.8 Task – Write Comprehension Questions7.10 Plot Summary7.11 Book Review Language7.12 Book Review Structure8.13 Task – Discuss Poetry

Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout (VCELA278)

2.7 Websites and Readability


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)

1.12 Design a Poster1.17 Design a Slideshow2.9 Compare Texts from Different Eras3.3 Characters3.4 Setting3.12 Explore Comic Strips3.14 Tension and Suspense4.13 Task – Publish a Personal Response8.14 Task – Publish a Poem

Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity (VCELA280)

4.2 Adverbs4.3 Adverb Phrases4.7 Adverb Clauses5.10 Prepositional Phrases

Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text (VCELA281)

3.8 Quoted and Reported Speech3.12 Explore Comic Strips


Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (VCELT282)

7.2 Genres7.9 Different Stories, Similar Ideas

Responding to literature

Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (VCELT283)

7.2 Genres7.4 Task – Review a Film7.11 Book Review Language


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Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques (VCELT284)

3.2 What Is a Story?3.3 Characters3.4 Setting3.6 Plot3.14 Tension and Suspense7.6 Reflect on Characters7.9 Different Stories, Similar Ideas7.10 Plot Summary7.12 Book Review Structure

Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts (VCELT285)

8.1 Comprehension – Rosie’s Scowl8.2 Poetic Language8.4 Rhyme8.6 Spoonerisms8.7 Neologisms8.8 Task – Write Quatrain Poems8.10 Puns8.11 Limericks8.12 Task – Write an Acrostic Poem8.13 Task – Discuss Poetry8.14 Task – Publish a Poem


Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (VCELY286)

2.9 Compare Texts from Different Eras7.9 Different Stories, Similar Ideas


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)

1.1 Comprehension – The Origins of English1.5 Comprehension – A Trip to the Australian War Memorial1.9 Comprehension – Skateboarding in Afghanistan1.13 Comprehension – Finding a Hero2.1 Comprehension – The Giraffe2.5 Comprehension – Buderim2.11 New Vocabulary 12.13 Comprehension – Visit Wales3.1 Comprehension – The Curious Dictionary3.5 Comprehension – The Monster in the Roof3.9 Comprehension – Billy’s Bad Day3.13 Comprehension – The Sapphire Robbery4.1 Comprehension – Matrix Blast Review4.5 Comprehension – Mona Lisa5.1 Comprehension – BTN: Free Range5.5 Comprehension – The Case For Homework5.9 Comprehension – The Case Against Homework5.13 Comprehension – Explore the Stars!5.16 Comprehension – BTN: Debating Championships6.1 Comprehension – Streetscape6.5 Comprehension – Who Am I?7.1 Comprehension – Somewhere Around the Corner7.5 Comprehension – At the Creek7.8 Task – Write Comprehension Questions7.12 Book Review Structure8.1 Comprehension – Rosie’s Scowl8.3 New Vocabulary 28.5 Comprehension – Brodie B Buckles and Barnabas Blake8.9 Comprehension – Six Limericks

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (VCELY288)

1.1 Comprehension – The Origins of English1.5 Comprehension – A Trip to the Australian War Memorial1.6 Effective Listening1.9 Comprehension – Skateboarding in Afghanistan1.11 Non-Verbal Communication1.13 Comprehension – Finding a Hero2.1 Comprehension – The Giraffe2.5 Comprehension – Buderim2.11 New Vocabulary 12.13 Comprehension – Visit Wales3.1 Comprehension – The Curious Dictionary3.5 Comprehension – The Monster in the Roof 2.13 Comprehension – Visit Wales

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3.1 Comprehension – The Curious Dictionary3.5 Comprehension – The Monster in the Roof3.9 Comprehension – Billy’s Bad Day3.13 Comprehension – The Sapphire Robbery4.1 Comprehension – Matrix Blast Review4.5 Comprehension – Mona Lisa5.1 Comprehension – BTN: Free Range5.5 Comprehension – The Case For Homework5.9 Comprehension – The Case Against Homework5.13 Comprehension – Explore the Stars!5.16 Comprehension – BTN: Debating Championships6.1 Comprehension – Streetscape6.5 Comprehension – Who Am I?7.1 Comprehension – Somewhere Around the Corner7.5 Comprehension – At the Creek7.8 Task – Write Comprehension Questions7.9 Different Stories, Similar Ideas8.1 Comprehension – Rosie’s Scowl8.3 New Vocabulary 28.5 Comprehension – Brodie B Buckles and Barnabas Blake8.9 Comprehension – Six Limericks

Compare and evaluate two texts presenting the same ideas and analyse why one is more comprehensible or engaging than the other (VCELY289)

2.9 Compare Texts from Different Eras7.9 Different Stories, Similar Ideas8.1 Comprehension – Rosie’s Scowl8.13 Task – Discuss Poetry



Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (VCELA290)

2.3 This, That, These, Those4.9 Pronoun Reference5.6 Sequence Words5.7 Cause and Effect Words5.14 Compare and Contrast Word

Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech (VCELA291)

3.8 Quoted and Reported Speech3.11 Quotation Marks3.12 Explore Comic Strips


Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (VCELA292)

1.7 Noun Phrases5.10 Prepositional Phrases6.8 Verb Phrases

Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources, including vocabulary encountered in research, into own texts (VCELA293)

2.8 Task – Write an Information Report7.4 Task – Review a Film


Understand how to use phonic generalisations to identify and write words with more complex letter combinations (VCELA294)

This descriptor is covered by Spelling Spot (patterns, prefixes and suffixes). For more information see the Year 4 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.

Understand how to use spelling patterns and generalisations including syllabification, letter combinations including double letters, and morphemic knowledge to build word families (VCELA295)

1.3 Doubling in Spelling1.14 Prefixes2.4 Suffixes2.12 Consonant Clusters4.4 Homophones4.10 Tricky Homophones5.15 Plural Rules7.3 Spelling Rules

This descriptor is also covered by Spelling Spot (patterns, compound words, prefixes and suffixes). For more information see the Year 4 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.

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Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling (VCELA296)

4.4 Homophones4.10 Tricky Homophones

This descriptor is also covered by Spelling Spot (homophones). For more information see the Year 4 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.


Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (VCELT297)

3.3 Characters3.4 Setting3.6 Plot3.7 Task – Write a Story from a Plot Outline3.10 Task – Rewrite Billy’s Bad Day3.14 Tension and Suspense7.7 Task – Retell a Story

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (VCELT298)

3.2 What Is a Story?3.3 Characters3.4 Setting3.7 Task – Write a Story from a Plot Outline3.10 Task – Rewrite Billy’s Bad Day3.14 Tension and Suspense7.7 Task – Retell a Story8.8 Task – Write Quatrain Poems8.12 Task – Write an Acrostic Poem

Literacy 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)

1.15 Write a Speech1.17 Design a Slideshow2.8 Task – Write an Information Report3.3 Characters3.6 Plot3.7 Task – Write a Story from a Plot Outline3.10 Task – Rewrite Billy’s Bad Day4.8 Task – Respond to Artwork4.13 Task – Publish a Personal Response5.11 Persuasive Essay Structure5.12 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay6.3 Description Text Structure6.4 Task – Describe a Subject6.7 Task – Describe a Minibeast7.4 Task – Review a Film7.8 Task – Write Comprehension Questions8.8 Task – Write Quatrain Poems8.12 Task – Write an Acrostic Poem8.14 Task – Publish a Poem

Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (VCELY300)

2.8 Task – Write an Information Report3.7 Task – Write a Story from a Plot Outline4.8 Task – Respond to Artwork4.12 Sentences4.13 Task – Publish a Personal Response5.4 Task – Write Persuasive Paragraphs5.12 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay6.4 Task – Describe a Subject6.7 Task – Describe a Minibeast7.4 Task – Review a Film7.7 Task – Retell a Story8.8 Task – Write Quatrain Poems8.12 Task – Write an Acrostic Poem8.14 Task – Publish a Poem

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)

1.12 Design a Poster1.17 Design a Slideshow4.13 Task – Publish a Personal Response8.14 Task – Publish a Poem

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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)

1.4 Greek and Latin Roots1.16 Borrowed Words4.11 Slang, Colloquial and Formal Words


Understand that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others (VCELA304)

1.10 Effective Speaking1.11 Non-Verbal Communication4.11 Slang, Colloquial and Formal Words5.2 Fact or Opinion5.3 Persuasive Language 15.4 Task – Write Persuasive Paragraphs5.8 Persuasive Language 25.17 Improve Your Speaking

Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording (VCELA305)

5.2 Fact or Opinion5.3 Persuasive Language 15.4 Task – Write Persuasive Paragraphs5.8 Persuasive Language 25.11 Persuasive Essay Structure5.12 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay


Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (VCELT306)

1.1 Comprehension – The Origins of English1.5 Comprehension – A Trip to the Australian War Memorial1.9 Comprehension – Skateboarding in Afghanistan1.13 Comprehension – Finding a Hero2.1 Comprehension – The Giraffe2.5 Comprehension – Buderim2.13 Comprehension – Visit Wales3.1 Comprehension – The Curious Dictionary3.2 What Is a Story?3.3 Characters3.4 Setting3.5 Comprehension – The Monster in the Roof3.6 Plot3.9 Comprehension – Billy’s Bad Day3.10 Task – Rewrite Billy’s Bad Day3.13 Comprehension – The Sapphire Robbery3.14 Tension and Suspense4.1 Comprehension – Matrix Blast Review4.5 Comprehension – Mona Lisa5.1 Comprehension – BTN: Free Range5.5 Comprehension – The Case For Homework5.9 Comprehension – The Case Against Homework5.13 Comprehension – Explore the Stars!5.16 Comprehension – BTN: Debating Championships6.1 Comprehension – Streetscape6.5 Comprehension – Who Am I?7.1 Comprehension – Somewhere Around the Corner7.2 Genres7.5 Comprehension – At the Creek7.6 Reflect on Characters7.7 Task – Retell a Story8.1 Comprehension – Rosie’s Scowl8.5 Comprehension – Brodie B Buckles and Barnabas Blake8.9 Comprehension – Six Limericks8.13 Task – Discuss Poetry


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)

1.6 Effective Listening1.9 Comprehension – Skateboarding in Afghanistan1.10 Effective Speaking

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)

1.10 Effective Speaking1.11 Non-Verbal Communication1.15 Write a Speech1.17 Design a Slideshow5.11 Persuasive Essay Structure5.17 Improve Your Speaking

Note: Modules 6.2 Adjectives 1 and 6.6 Adjectives 2 revises content from the Year 2 Victorian Curriculum. Note: Modules 1.2 Past Tense and 1.8 Contractions revises content from the Year 3 Victorian Curriculum.

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Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality (VCELA309)

1.6 Task – Explain a Life Cycle1.8 Explanation Text Structure1.10 Task – Write an Explanation2.6 Persuasive Essay Structure2.7 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay2.10 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster2.13 Audience, Purpose and Context3.6 Text Types3.8 Task – Report a Discovery4.3 News Article Structure4.4 Task – Write a News Article4.8 News Video Techniques5.2 Plot Summary5.3 Task – Review a Restaurant5.5 Film Review Structure5.6 Task – Review a TV Show6.4 Task – Write a Second Person Narrative7.4 Introduction to Biographies7.5 Task – Write an Autobiography7.9 Write a Biography8.3 Task – Write a Short Story8.6 Task – Write a Letter to an Author8.10 Create a Fantasy Plot Outline9.3 Poetry Types9.6 Task – Write a Poem9.8 Sound Devices9.9 Write in the Style of a Poet

Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation (VCELA310)

1.6 Task – Explain a Life Cycle1.8 Explanation Text Structure1.10 Task – Write an Explanation2.11 Finding Facts3.8 Task – Report a Discovery4.4 Task – Write a News Article7.4 Introduction to Biographies7.5 Task – Write an Autobiography


Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations (VCELA311)

8.11 Interpret Images


Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals (VCELA312)

1.2 Uncommon Plurals1.9 Roots and Affixes

This descriptor is also covered by Spelling Spot (patterns, prefixes, suffixes and Greek and Latin roots). For more information see the Year 5 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.


Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts (VCELT313)

7.2 Explore Contexts in Literature

Responding to literature

Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (VCELT314)

5.4 Facts and Opinions in Film Reviews6.3 Compare Narrative Voice9.9 Write in the Style of a Poet


Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses (VCELT315)

6.1 Comprehension – A Long Walk to Water6.2 Narrative Voice6.3 Compare Narrative Voice6.4 Task – Write a Second Person Narrative


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Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (VCELT316)

6.4 Task – Write a Second Person Narrative8.3 Task – Write a Short Story9.3 Poetry Types9.5 Metaphors and Similes9.6 Task – Write a Poem9.7 Personification9.8 Sound Devices9.9 Write in the Style of a Poet


Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context (VCELY317)

2.3 Persuasive Language 12.6 Persuasive Essay Structure2.7 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay2.9 Bare Assertions2.10 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster2.13 Audience, Purpose and Context4.2 Objective and Subjective Language5.3 Task – Review a Restaurant5.4 Facts and Opinions in Film Reviews5.6 Task – Review a TV Show6.2 Narrative Voice6.3 Compare Narrative Voice9.2 Idioms


Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning (VCELY318)

1.1 Comprehension – Our Changing Language1.4 Comprehension – How Is a Rainbow Formed?1.7 Comprehension – How Is Chocolate Made?2.1 Comprehension – My Sport Rules!2.5 Comprehension – Who Says Burgers Are Bad?2.8 Comprehension – Don’t Waste Water2.11 Finding Facts3.1 Comprehension – Kerenza: A New Australian3.4 Comprehension – The Blobfish3.7 Comprehension – Dinosaur Discovery3.10 Skimming and Scanning4.1 Comprehension – BTN: Future Jobs4.3 News Article Structure4.5 Comprehension – Havoc as Flood Peak Hits Brisbane5.1 Comprehension – Paper Planes Film Review5.7 Comprehension – Hunt for the Wilderpeople6.1 Comprehension – A Long Walk to Water7.1 Comprehension – The Adventures of Matthew Flinders7.6 Comprehension – Interview with Sir Edmund Hillary8.1 Comprehension – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland8.4 Comprehension – The Geeglenash8.7 Comprehension – Two Weeks with the Queen8.9 Comprehension – The Wandering Wand9.1 Comprehension – Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend9.4 Comprehension – Poems, Poems, Everywhere

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (VCELY319)

1.1 Comprehension – Our Changing Language1.4 Comprehension – How Is a Rainbow Formed?1.7 Comprehension – How Is Chocolate Made?2.1 Comprehension – My Sport Rules!2.5 Comprehension – Who Says Burgers Are Bad?2.8 Comprehension – Don’t Waste Water2.11 Finding Facts3.1 Comprehension – Kerenza: A New Australian3.4 Comprehension – The Blobfish3.7 Comprehension – Dinosaur Discovery4.1 Comprehension – BTN: Future Jobs4.5 Comprehension – Havoc as Flood Peak Hits Brisbane4.8 News Video Techniques5.1 Comprehension – Paper Planes Film Review5.7 Comprehension – Hunt for the Wilderpeople6.1 Comprehension – A Long Walk to Water7.1 Comprehension – The Adventures of Matthew Flinders7.6 Comprehension – Interview with Sir Edmund Hillary8.1 Comprehension – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland8.4 Comprehension – The Geeglenash8.7 Comprehension – Two Weeks with the Queen

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8.9 Comprehension – The Wandering Wand9.1 Comprehension – Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend9.4 Comprehension – Poems, Poems, Everywhere

Analyse the text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (VCELY320)

1.8 Explanation Text Structure2.3 Persuasive Language 12.4 Persuasive Language 22.6 Persuasive Essay Structure3.6 Text Types4.2 Objective and Subjective Language4.3 News Article Structure5.2 Plot Summary5.4 Facts and Opinions in Film Reviews6.2 Narrative Voice6.3 Compare Narrative Voice7.4 Introduction to Biographies7.9 Write a Biography8.2 Genre and Fantasy8.10 Create a Fantasy Plot Outline9.3 Poetry Types9.9 Write in the Style of a Poet



Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold (VCELA321)

3.9 Informative Sentences

Understand how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes with common and proper nouns (VCELA322)

1.11 The Apostrophe


Understand the difference between main and subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause (VCELA323)

3.3 Clauses3.5 Complex Sentences

Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea (VCELA324)

4.6 Noun Phrases4.7 Adjective Phrases

Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (VCELA325)

1.3 Precise Vocabulary1.5 Homonyms


Recognise and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations (VCELA326)



Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors (VCELT327)

6.4 Task – Write a Second Person Narrative8.5 Sequels, Prequels and Spin-offs9.6 Task – Write a Poem9.9 Write in the Style of a Poet

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced (VCELT328)

6.4 Task – Write a Second Person Narrative8.3 Task – Write a Short Story8.8 Fantasy Characters8.10 Create a Fantasy Plot Outline

Literacy Creating texts Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (VCELY329)

1.6 Task – Explain a Life Cycle1.8 Explanation Text Structure1.10 Task – Write an Explanation2.3 Persuasive Language 12.4 Persuasive Language 22.6 Persuasive Essay Structure2.7 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay2.10 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster2.14 Design a Slideshow3.8 Task – Report a Discovery4.3 News Article Structure 4.4 Task – Write a News Article4.8 News Video Techniques5.2 Plot Summary

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5.3 Task – Review a Restaurant5.5 Film Review Structure5.6 Task – Review a TV Show5.8 Design Principles6.4 Task – Write a Second Person Narrative7.4 Introduction to Biographies7.5 Task – Write an Autobiography7.7 Interview Questions7.8 Conduct an Interview7.9 Write a Biography7.10 Revise Slideshow Design8.3 Task – Write a Short Story8.5 Sequels, Prequels and Spin-offs8.6 Task – Write a Letter to an Author8.8 Fantasy Characters8.10 Create a Fantasy Plot Outline9.6 Task – Write a Poem9.8 Sound Devices9.9 Write in the Style of a Poet9.10 Task – Record a Poetry Recital9.11 Task – Publish an Anthology

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features (VCELY330)

1.6 Task – Explain a Life Cycle1.10 Task – Write an Explanation1.11 The Apostrophe1.12 Punctuation2.7 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay2.10 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster2.13 Audience, Purpose and Context3.8 Task – Report a Discovery4.4 Task – Write a News Article5.3 Task – Review a Restaurant5.6 Task – Review a TV Show6.4 Task – Write a Second Person Narrative7.5 Task – Write an Autobiography8.3 Task – Write a Short Story8.6 Task – Write a Letter to an Author9.6 Task – Write a Poem9.11 Task – Publish an Anthology

Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic (VCELY331)


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 (VCELY332)

2.10 Task – Create a Persuasive Poster2.14 Design a Slideshow4.8 News Video Techniques7.8 Conduct an Interview7.9 Write a Biography9.8 Sound Devices9.10 Task – Record a Poetry Recital9.11 Task – Publish an Anthology



Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time (VCELA333)

1.1 Comprehension – Our Changing Language1.9 Roots and Affixes3.1 Comprehension – Kerenza: A New Australian

This descriptor is also covered by Spelling Spot (patterns and Greek and Latin roots). For more information see the Year 5 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.


Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships (VCELA334)

2.13 Audience, Purpose and Context7.3 Interaction Skills

Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view (VCELA335)

2.9 Bare Assertions5.3 Task – Review a Restaurant5.6 Task – Review a TV Show

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Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (VCELT336)

6.1 Comprehension – A Long Walk to Water8.6 Task – Write a Letter to an Author9.4 Comprehension – Poems, Poems, Everywhere9.9 Write in the Style of a Poet


Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences, and present and justify a point of view or recount an experience using interaction skills (VCELY337)

1.1 Comprehension – Our Changing Language1.4 Comprehension – How Is a Rainbow Formed?1.7 Comprehension – How Is Chocolate Made?2.1 Comprehension – My Sport Rules!2.2 Justify a Point of View2.5 Comprehension – Who Says Burgers Are Bad?2.7 Task – Write a Persuasive Essay2.8 Comprehension – Don’t Waste Water2.12 Non-Verbal Cues2.13 Audience, Purpose and Context3.1 Comprehension – Kerenza: A New Australian3.4 Comprehension – The Blobfish3.7 Comprehension – Dinosaur Discovery4.1 Comprehension – BTN: Future Jobs4.5 Comprehension – Havoc as Flood Peak Hits Brisbane5.1 Comprehension – Paper Planes Film Review

5.7 Comprehension – Hunt for the Wilderpeople6.1 Comprehension – A Long Walk to Water7.1 Comprehension – The Adventures of Matthew Flinders7.3 Interaction Skills7.6 Comprehension – Interview with Sir Edmund Hillary7.8 Conduct an Interview8.1 Comprehension – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland8.4 Comprehension – The Geeglenash8.7 Comprehension – Two Weeks with the Queen8.9 Comprehension – The Wandering Wand9.1 Comprehension – Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend9.4 Comprehension – Poems, Poems, Everywhere

Participate in informal debates and plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (VCELY338)

2.6 Persuasive Essay Structure2.14 Design a Slideshow4.8 News Video Techniques7.7 Interview Questions7.8 Conduct an Interview7.9 Write a Biography7.10 Revise Slideshow Design9.10 Task – Record a Poetry Recital

Note: Module 3.2 Commas revises content from the Year 2 Victorian Curriculum.

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Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (VCELA339)

2.2 Persuasive Language 12.3 Persuasive Language 22.4 Persuasive Essay Structure2.6 Task – Write a Persuasive Speech2.7 Make Connections in Texts3.3 An Author’s Style3.6 Sensory Language4.6 Setting4.7 Plot4.9 Play Script Format and Structure8.2 Imagery8.3 Task – Write Any Poem8.4 Sound Devices8.5 Language Patterns8.6 Ballads8.7 Task – From Ballad to Story8.8 Free Verse8.9 Build a Ballad


Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts (VCELA340)

1.4 Comprehension – Measuring Friction1.7 Comprehension – Eaton Lake1.10 Task – Write Directions7.2 Graphical Images7.4 Comprehension – Rock Star Throws Tiara in River7.5 News Video Script Features


Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots (VCELT341)

2.7 Make Connections in Texts2.8 Explore Diary Writing3.8 Different Authors, Similar Themes

Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts (VCELT342)

5.9 Modality5.10 Emphasis, Repetition and Metaphor8.2 Imagery8.6 Ballads8.8 Free Verse


Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style (VCELT343)

3.3 An Author’s Style3.8 Different Authors, Similar Themes

Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse (VCELT344)

8.3 Task – Write Any Poem8.4 Sound Devices8.5 Language Patterns8.6 Ballads8.7 Task – From Ballad to Story8.8 Free Verse

Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (VCELY345)

2.2 Persuasive Language 12.3 Persuasive Language 26.7 Bias7.3 Finding Facts

Select, navigate and read increasingly complex texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies to recall information and consolidate meaning (VCELY346)

1.4 Comprehension – Measuring Friction1.7 Comprehension – Eaton Lake6.1 Comprehension – Boxing: For and Against6.3 Balanced Information6.9 Task – Discuss Dams


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Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (VCELY347)

1.1 Comprehension – 30 Australian Sports Legends1.4 Comprehension – Measuring Friction1.7 Comprehension – Eaton Lake2.1 Comprehension – My Girragundji2.5 Comprehension – Vote For Me!2.7 Make Connections in Texts3.1 Comprehension – Refuge3.4 Comprehension – New Boy3.7 Comprehension – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory4.1 Comprehension – Making a Point4.5 Comprehension – The Fishing Trip5.1 Comprehension – Bridget: A New Australian5.4 Comprehension – The Weird Day6.1 Comprehension – Boxing: For and Against6.4 Comprehension – Shark Nets: For and Against6.10 Comprehension – Animal Testing: For and Against7.1 Comprehension – BTN: Piracy Crackdown7.4 Comprehension – Rock Star Throws Tiara in River7.7 Comprehension – BTN: Fake News7.8 Filming and Presentation Techniques8.1 Comprehension – Toby: Not Good Enough

WritingStrand Sub-strand Content Descriptions English Stars Modules


Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words (VCELA348)

5.2 Cohesive Links

Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses (VCELA349)

3.10 Commas in Sentences3.13 Incorrect Use of the Comma


Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas (VCELA350)

5.3 Complex Sentences

Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases (VCELA351)

1.2 Subject–Verb Agreement5.5 Verbs5.7 Tense5.8 Adverb Phrases

Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (VCELA352)

2.2 Persuasive Language 12.6 Write a Persuasive Speech3.6 Sensory Language3.11 Evaluative Language5.9 Modality5.10 Emphasis, Repetition and Metaphor6.6 Objective and Subjective Language6.7 Bias7.3 Finding Facts


Understand how to use phonic knowledge and accumulated understandings about blending, letter–sound relationships, common and uncommon letter patterns and phonic generalisations to recognise and write increasingly complex words (VCELA353)


Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, prefixes, suffixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to spell new words, including technical words and words adopted from other languages (VCELA354)

1.8 Roots and Affixes1.9 Base Words3.5 Spelling Rules

This descriptor is also covered by Spelling Spot (patterns, prefixes, suffixes and Greek and Latin roots). For more information see the Year 6 Spelling Spot Scope and Sequence.

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Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts (VCELT355)

4.3 Task – Write a Conversation4.9 Play Script Format and Structure5.6 Task – Recount Your Craziest Day8.2 Imagery8.3 Task – Write Any Poem8.7 Task – From Ballad to Story8.9 Build a Ballad

Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (VCELT356)

2.8 Explore Diary Writing4.3 Task – Write a Conversation4.9 Play Script Format and Structure5.6 Task – Recount Your Craziest Day8.3 Task – Write Any Poem8.7 Task – From Ballad to Story8.9 Build a Ballad


Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches (VCELY357)

2.7 Make Connections in Texts7.3 Finding Facts

Creating texts Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience (VCELY358)

1.3 Task – Write a Procedural Text1.5 Procedural Text Structure1.6 Task – Write a Recipe1.10 Task – Write Directions2.4 Persuasive Essay Structure2.6 Task – Write a Persuasive Speech2.11 Design Principles3.12 Write a Book Pitch4.2 Create Characters4.3 Task – Write a Conversation4.9 Play Script Format and Structure5.6 Task – Recount Your Craziest Day6.2 Informative Texts6.5 Task – Write a Balanced Discussion6.8 Discussion Article Structure6.9 Task – Discuss Dams6.11 Revise Design Principles7.5 News Video Script Features7.6 Task – Write a News Video Script8.3 Task – Write Any Poem8.7 Task – From Ballad to Story8.9 Build a Ballad8.10 Task – Publish a Ballad

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices (VCELY359)

1.3 Task – Write a Procedural Text1.6 Task – Write a Recipe1.10 Task – Write Directions2.6 Task – Write a Persuasive Speech2.9 Punctuation for Quoted Speech3.5 Spelling Rules4.3 Task – Write a Conversation5.6 Task – Recount Your Craziest Day6.5 Task – Write a Balanced Discussion6.7 Bias6.9 Task – Discuss Dams7.6 Task – Write a News Video Script8.3 Task – Write Any Poem8.7 Task – From Ballad to Story8.10 Task – Publish a Ballad

Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and that can vary depending on context (VCELY360)


Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (VCELY361)

2.11 Design Principles4.9 Play Script Format and Structure6.11 Revise Design Principles8.10 Task – Publish a Ballad

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Speaking and ListeningStrand Sub-strand Content Descriptions English Stars Modules


Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English (VCELA362)

4.4 Australian Accents


Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase (VCELA363)

4.4 Australian Accents4.8 Dialogue and Stage Directions

Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias (VCELA364)

6.2 Informative Texts6.5 Task – Write a Balanced Discussion6.6 Objective and Subjective Language6.7 Bias6.9 Task – Discuss Dams7.3 Finding Facts7.5 News Video Script Features7.6 Task – Write a News Video Script


Make connections between own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (VCELT365)

2.1 Comprehension – My Girragundji2.7 Make Connections in Texts3.1 Comprehension – Refuge3.4 Comprehension – New Boy3.7 Comprehension – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory4.1 Comprehension – Making a Point4.2 Create Characters4.5 Comprehension – The Fishing Trip4.6 Setting5.1 Comprehension – Bridget: A New Australian5.4 Comprehension – The Weird Day8.1 Comprehension – Toby: Not Good Enough


Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions, and use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience (VCELY366)

1.1 Comprehension – 30 Australian Sports Legends1.4 Comprehension – Measuring Friction1.7 Comprehension – Eaton Lake2.1 Comprehension – My Girragundji2.5 Comprehension – Vote For Me!2.7 Make Connections in Texts2.8 Explore Diary Writing3.1 Comprehension – Refuge3.2 Discussions3.4 Comprehension – New Boy3.7 Comprehension – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory3.8 Different Authors, Similar Themes3.14 Oral Presentation Skills4.1 Comprehension – Making a Point4.5 Comprehension – The Fishing Trip4.8 Dialogue and Stage Directions5.1 Comprehension – Bridget: A New Australian5.4 Comprehension – The Weird Day6.1 Comprehension – Boxing: For and Against6.4 Comprehension – Shark Nets: For and Against6.10 Comprehension – Animal Testing: For and Against7.1 Comprehension – BTN: Piracy Crackdown7.4 Comprehension – Rock Star Throws Tiara in River7.7 Comprehension – BTN: Fake News7.8 Filming and Presentation Techniques8.1 Comprehension – Toby: Not Good Enough8.6 Ballads

Participate in formal and informal debates and plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis (VCELY367)

3.12 Write a Book Pitch3.14 Oral Presentation Skills7.8 Filming and Presentation Techniques

Note: Module 3.9 Commas in Lists and with Adjectives revises content from the Year 2 Victorian Curriculum. Note: Module 2.10 Homophones revises content from the Year 4 Victorian Curriculum.Note: Module 1.11 The Apostrophe revises content from the Year 5 Victorian Curriculum.

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