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Foundation Sample 1 Speaking and listening

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Task Summary

The student was asked a series of questions about their favourite book. The student chose to speak about Ruby Red Shoes by Kate Knapp.

Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds

Level F Sample 1 transcript (docx - 46.7kb)

Foundation English, Speaking and Listening achievement standard (extract only)

This speaking sample provides evidence of student achievement for:

… listen to and use appropriate interaction skills to respond to others in a familiar environment ... understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences ... identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar texts, objects, characters and events ... retell events and experiences with peers and known adults.

For more information, please see: Victorian Curriculum F–10: English – Level F – Speaking and Listening

This sample provides evidence of student achievement for parts of the Reading and Viewing achievement standard, to:

… recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics … identify connections between texts and their personal experience.

For more information, please see: Victorian Curriculum F–10: English- Level F – Reading and Viewing

Video with annotations against achievement standard extracts for Speaking and Listening only

Book chat

Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds

The student:

Uses simple, appropriate personal greetings ('Hi everyone.').

Uses appropriate volume for small audiences.

Shares feelings and thoughts about events and characters in the text.

Uses a small range of opinion adjectives ('really sweet', 'best').

Uses causal connectives to relate ideas ('I like it because it has a rabbit in it', 'Her name's Ruby Red Shoes 'cause she has red shoes').

Retells key details or points from a text viewed and heard.

Organises key ideas into logical sequence.

Provides some supporting details.

Uses simple connectives to join ideas ('and then').

Planning the next stage of student learning

When planning the next stage of the teaching and learning program to progress this student's learning, focus on the following skills and knowledge:

Level F

  • Deliver short oral presentations to peers, using appropriate voice levels, articulation, body language, gestures and eye contact (VCELY175)

Level 1

  • Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (VCELT205)
  • Express preferences for specific texts and authors and listen to the opinions of others (VCELT206)
  • Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences (VCELT207)
  • Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts (VCELT208)
  • Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts (VCELA202)

Remember to attend to the Reading and Viewing learning needs of the student. For example, focus on the following skills and knowledge:

  • Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students' own experiences (VCELT148)