Activities for this Learning Area
Teacher resources
Learning Area:
English
Outcomes and Level Descriptions for Levels 2-5
Speaking and Listening
- Speaking and Listening Level 2
Listens and talks with peers, teachers and other adults in school activities, is aware of the need to change listening and speaking to suit different situations; experiments with ways of improving communication with others; and locates and obtains simple, discrete information from accessible spoken texts.
3AT Parts of the above - Speaking and Listening Level 3
Uses an increasing range of spoken texts with accessible themes to communicate and obtain specific information; and when communicating about familiar concepts, usually uses the structures and features of spoken language appropriately, adapting listening and speaking for different purposes.
5AT Parts of the above - Speaking and Listening Level 4
Identifies and expands on the main ideas in familiar spoken texts, controlling most linguistic structures and features of spoken language; improves communication by considering conventions, audience, purpose and context; and plans, rehearses and things about their own listening and speaking.
7AT Parts of the above
9AT All of the above - Speaking and Listening Level 5
Interacts with others, interpreting accessible topics with challenging ideas; identifies language structures and conventions used to influence audiences and evaluates the effect of text form and register with reference to purpose, audience and context; and selects, applies and adjusts strategies for improving communication.
Writing
- Writing Level 2
Produces simple written texts to communicate experiences, information and feelings; discusses some of the purposes of writing; knows that writing can be planned, reviewed and changed; and produces texts that follow some of the conventions of writing and can be read by others.
3AT Parts of the above - Writing Level 3
Combines ideas in local sequence to write a small range of text types; recognises the needs of particular audiences and purposes for writing; demonstrates control over many of the conventions of language; experiments with other conventions; and uses strategies for planning, reviewing and proofreading.
5AT Parts of the above
7AT All of the above - Writing Level 4
Develops familiar ideas and information in their writing, taking account of aspects of audience, purpose and context; experiments with specific text types and demonstrates control over most language conventions; and uses a range of strategies to plan and revise writing.
9AT All of the above - Writing Level 5
Explores challenging ideas and issues in a variety of text types; selects language to suit specific audiences, purposes and contexts and adapts the language structures and conventions necessary for clear communication; and applies a range of planning and reviewing strategies to shape writing.
Reading
- Reading Level 2
Uses basic strategies to locate, select and read a range of simple texts; recalls and discusses significant ideas from texts; and understands that people write about real and imagined experiences.
3AT Parts of the above - Reading Level 3
Integrates a range of strategies to interpret and discuss relationships among ideas, information and events in written texts; identifies and uses language structures; and recognises and discusses the use of symbols and stereotypes to make meaning.
5AT Parts of the above - Reading Level 4
Understands how language structures and conventions work to shape meaning; recognises that texts are constructed for particular audiences, contexts and purposes; and justifies their own interpretation of ideas, information and events in texts.
7AT Parts of the above
9AT All of the above - Reading Level 5
Uses their knowledge of the features and conventions of text types and contexts when reading and comparing texts, constructing meaning and discussing possible reasons for varying interpretations; and synthesises information form different sources to construct responses.
