National Literacy Learning Progression

1. National Literacy Learning Progression

2. The Australian Curriculum • The Australian Curriculum: English has a central role in the development of literacy. • In addition, all Australian Curriculum learning areas require students to apply and develop discipline-specific literacy knowledge and skills.

3. Relationship: Learning areas and resources

4. Where to find the Literacy Learning Progression

5. Where to find the Literacy Learning Progression

6. Using the Literacy Learning Progression • The progression is a tool to: • locate each student’s current level of literacy development on the learning progression • identify the next steps for literacy learning • develop a shared understanding of literacy development.

7. Structure: Literacy Learning Progression Elements Levels Sub-elements

8. Literacy elements and sub-elements

9. Example Element: Writing Level: 1 Sub-element: Creating texts Subheading • Crafting ideas • conveys messages through actions or talk (see Speaking) • shares information in different ways (uses illustrations, icons and images; innovates on familiar texts through play) • observes others writing with interest and attention (asks what the writing is for and what it says) (see Speaking) Indicators

10. The progression and additional information

11. Additional information Element: Speaking and listening Level: 5 Sub-element: Listening • listens to texts to engage with learning area content • recalls specific information from a learning area text • attends to sequence when recounting ideas • listens to a familiar story and retells, making minor adaptations if needed • selects appropriate listening strategies (asking questions to elicit extra information, rephrasing others’ contribution to check own comprehension) • uses cohesive vocabulary to support comprehension (listens for temporal connectives such as first, then, finally and conjunctions such as also) to identify next section in text Indicators Band of years

12. Using the Literacy Learning Progression • When using the progression to identify student development note that: • teachers make a holistic judgment when placing students on a level • teachers identify next steps in literacy progression • indicators at each level are neither hierarchical nor prescriptive • the progression is not designed to be used as a checklist.

13. Where to now? • QCAA advises that the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions are a resource schools may choose to use. • Schools are best placed to decide how to use the learning progressions, with advice from their sector. • The National Literacy Learning Progression is on the Australian Curriculum website under the ‘Resources/publications’ tab: • https://australiancurriculum.edu.au/resources/national-literacy-and-numeracy-learning-progressions