Level 1 – Speaking, writing, presenting
Processes and strategies
Students will:
- acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas.
Indicators
- Has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating text
- Creates texts by using meaning, structure, visual, and grapho-phonic sources of information, prior knowledge, and some processing strategies with some confidence
- Seeks feedback and makes changes to texts
- Is becoming reflective about the production of own texts
- Begins to monitor, self-evaluate, and describe progress.
By using these processes and strategies when speaking, writing, or presenting, students will:
Purposes and audiences
- Recognise how to shape texts for a purpose and an audience.
Indicators
- Constructs texts that demonstrate some awareness of purpose and audience through appropriate choice of content, language, and text form;
- Expects the texts they create to be understood, responded to, and appreciated by others
- Is developing and conveying personal voice where appropriate.
Ideas
- Form and express ideas on a range of topics.
Indicators
- Forms and expresses simple ideas and information, usually drawing from personal experience and knowledge
- Begins to support ideas with some detail.
Language features
- Use language features, showing some recognition of their effects.
Indicators
- Uses some oral, written, and visual language features to create meaning and effect
- Uses a range of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to create meaning
- Spells some high-frequency words correctly and begins to use some common spelling patterns
- Begins to use some strategies to self-correct and monitor spelling
- writes most letters and number forms legibly when creating texts
- Begins to gain control of text conventions such as capital letters and full stops; some basic grammatical conventions; volume, clarity, and tone; and simple symbols.
Structure
- Organise texts, using simple structures.
Indicators
- Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple texts
- Begins to sequence ideas and information
- Uses simple sentences with some variation in beginnings
- May attempt compound and complex sentences.