AusVELS CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS AND ELABORATIONS ENGLISH: Years 3 & 4 – READING AND VIEWING Year 3 Content Year 4 Content Language Elaborations Language Elaborations Understand how becoming familiar with typical structural stages Understand how becoming familiar with the typical stages and different types of and language features of various types of text, texts vary in language features of such text types as: simple texts vary in use of for example narratives, procedures, reports, complexity and narrative, procedure, simple persuasion texts language choices, reviews and expositions technicality and information reports depending on their depending on the function and approach to the purpose, for topic, the purpose example tense, and the intended mood, and types of audience sentences Identify the features becoming familiar with the typical features of Identify features of participating in online searches for information of online that online for example navigation bars and online texts that using navigation tools and discussing similarities enhance navigation buttons, hyperlinks and sitemaps enhance readability and differences between print and digital including text, information navigation, links, graphics and layout Literacy Elaborations Literacy Elaborations Use comprehension making connections between the text and Use making connections between the text and strategies to build students own experience and other texts comprehension students’ own experience and other texts literal and inferred making connections between the information in strategies to build making connections between information in print meaning and begin print and images literal and inferred and images to evaluate texts by making predictions and asking and answering meaning to expand building and using prior knowledge and drawing on a questions about the text drawing on knowledge content knowledge, vocabulary growing knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and integrating and finding specific literal information of context, text experience of texts on the same topic linking ideas and asking and answering questions structures and using text features and search tools to locate analysing and creating mental images language features information in written and digital texts efficiently evaluating texts finding the main idea of a text determining important events or details in inferring meaning from the ways communication texts commenting on things learned or occurs in digital environments including the questions raised by reading, referring explicitly interplay between words, images, and sounds to the text for verification bringing subject and technical vocabulary and making considered inferences taking into concept knowledge to new reading tasks, account topic knowledge or a character’s likely selecting and using texts for their pertinence to actions and feelings the task and the accuracy of their information
AusVELS CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS AND ELABORATIONS – ENGLISH: Years 3 & 4 READING AND VIEWING Year 3 Content Year 4 Content Language Elaborations Language Elaborations Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their function and purpose, for example tense, mood, and types of sentences becoming familiar with typical structural stages and language features of various types of text, for example narratives, procedures, reports, reviews and expositions Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience becoming familiar with the typical stages and language features of such text types as: simple narrative, procedure, simple persuasion texts and information reports Identify the features of online that enhance navigation becoming familiar with the typical features of online for example navigation bars and buttons, hyperlinks and sitemaps Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout participating in online searches for information using navigation tools and discussing similarities and differences between print and digital information Literacy Elaborations Literacy Elaborations 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 making connections between the text and students own experience and other texts making connections between the information in print and images making predictions and asking and answering questions about the text drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic using text features and search tools to locate information in written and digital texts efficiently determining important events or details in texts commenting on things learned or questions raised by reading, referring explicitly to the text for verification making considered inferences taking into account topic knowledge or a character’s likely actions and feelings Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts making connections between the text and students’ own experience and other texts making connections between information in print and images building and using prior knowledge and vocabulary finding specific literal information asking and answering questions creating mental images finding the main idea of a text inferring meaning from the ways communication occurs in digital environments including the interplay between words, images, and sounds bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks, selecting and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information
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