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Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALD students Module 1.1

Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALD students Module 1.1 Introduction . Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALD Students. The Levels replaced the ESL Scope and Scales that were used until 2013

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Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALD students Module 1.1

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  1. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALD students Module 1.1 Introduction

  2. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents • The Levels replaced the ESL Scope and Scales that were used until 2013 • The Levels reflect the language and literacy students need to access the Australian Curriculum across all learning areas at their year level R-10 • Each language level is equivalent to the same ESL Scale • The Levels reflect the language

  3. Year level R 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -12 Levels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Early Years 1 2 3 4 5 6 PrimaryYears 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Middle Years 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Senior Years 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents

  4. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents provides: Introductionprovides: • a rationale and aims plus background for the document.

  5. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents Background explains: • The register continuum The movement from ‘spoken-like’ (everyday, informal) to ‘written-like” (technical, formal) language can be seen as moving along a Register Continuum. • Relationship between Levels, Year Level and Register Continuum Through descriptions and examples of language and vocabulary, the Language and Literacy Levels show the gradual and continual shift in language across the register continuum expected at each year level. • Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents

  6. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents Introductionprovides: • various appendices which • detail processes for assigning a Level • provide assessment proformas • show the range of texts (genres) from the Australian Curriculum • compare the new document with the ACARA EALD Teacher Resource

  7. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents • Four setsof Levels: • Levels 1 – 6 • Levels 4 - 9 • Levels 7 – 10 • Levels 11 – 14 • Glossary: there is a glossary of terms to ensure all terminology is understood.

  8. ACARA Literacy Capability Literacy Continuum Informed by Australian Curriculum Literacy Continuum element of Composing texts and the organising elements: • Text knowledge • Grammar knowledge • Word knowledge • Visual knowledge • (incorporated in Text • Knowledge)

  9. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents Composing Learning Area texts • Oral Interactions and Presentations (only in Levels 1 – 6) • Using visuals in multi-modal texts • Written texts – ability to construct text types relevant to learning areas is described at each Level

  10. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents Text knowledge • Organisational structures of learning area texts • Text cohesion • Text and Paragraph Openers • Text Connectives • Sentence Openers • Reference

  11. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents Grammar knowledge -Sentence Structures • Simple, compound and complex –(activity) - Punctuation • Sentence level, capitals, commas - Words and Word Groups • Processes (verbs), Tense • Circumstances • Noun groups and Nominalisations

  12. Layout of Language and Literacy Levels Knowledge Language item Benchmarks from AC Literacy Continuum

  13. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents Grammar knowledge • Expressing opinion and point of view • Evaluative language • Modality • Expressing opinion directly and indirectly

  14. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents Word knowledge • Understanding learning area vocabulary • Topic vocabulary (Levels 1- 9) • Topic and subject specific vocabulary (Levels 10 -14) • Spelling

  15. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents • detailed elaboration and examples under the elements for each year level • an overall briefer document, easier layout to access.

  16. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents • Each year the Levels document needs to be used by teachers to assign Levels to students’ sets of evidence before the term 3 census to attract EALD funding to the school for the following year. • The funding enables intervention to be put into place for EALD students. • The Levels EDSAS data allows schools to prioritise this intervention. • The Levels can also be used to inform teaching and learning and monitor student progress.

  17. Language and Literacy Levels across the Australian Curriculum: EALDStudents • Language and Literacy Levels along with support materials (e.g. Moderated Evidence, Recording and Tracking Resource, FAQs and professional learning modules) are posted on the EALD website http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/literacy/pages/esl/scope/

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