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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
• 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
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
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Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
provides:
Introduction provides:• a rationale and aims plus background for the
document.
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
Background explains:
• The register continuumThe 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 ContinuumThrough 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: EALD Students
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
Introduction provides:
• 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
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
• Four sets of 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.
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)
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
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
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
Text knowledge
–Organisational structures of learning area texts
–Text cohesion • Text and Paragraph Openers
• Text Connectives
• Sentence Openers
• Reference
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
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
Faculty of Edit this on the Slide Master The University of Adelaide
Layout of Language and Literacy Levels
Grammar Knowledge
Level 7 (Year 3) Level 8 (Year 4) Level 9 (Year 5) Level 10 (Year 6)
Sentence Structures Simple Compound o Coordinating
(linking)
conjunctions Complex o Subordinating
(binding)
conjunctions
o Relative pronouns o Non-finite clauses
By the end of Year 4
students: use simple and
compound sentence structures to describe and make connections between ideas
By the end of Year 6
students: use a full range of
sentence types, including complex sentences that elaborate or explain ideas
From: The Australian
Curriculum: Literacy continuum
across stages of schooling
Language
item
Benchmarks from AC
Literacy Continuum
Knowledge
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
Grammar knowledge
–Expressing opinion and point of view
• Evaluative language
• Modality
• Expressing opinion directly and indirectly
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
Word knowledge
– Understanding learning area vocabulary
• Topic vocabulary (Levels 1- 9)
• Topic and subject specific vocabulary (Levels 10 -14)
– Spelling
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
• detailed elaboration and examples under the elements for each year level
• an overall briefer document, easier layout to access.
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
• 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.
Language and Literacy Levels across the
Australian Curriculum: EALD Students
• 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/