Yurran P-9 College is informed by the Victorian Curriculum

Aims

The English curriculum aims to ensure that students:

• learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, fluency and purpose
• appreciate, enjoy and use the English language in all its variations and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, facilitate interaction with others, entertain, persuade and argue
• understand how Standard Australian English works in its spoken and written forms and in combination with non-linguistic forms of communication to create meaning
• develop interest and skills in inquiring into the aesthetic aspects of texts, and develop an informed appreciation of literature

The English curriculum is presented in curriculum levels from Foundation Level A to Level 10. Content is organised under 3 interrelated strands:

Language

• Language for interacting with others
• Text structure and organisation
• Language for expressing and developing ideas

Literature

• Literature and contexts
• Engaging with and responding to literature
• Examining literature
• Creating literature

Literacy

• Interacting with others
• Phonic and word knowledge
• Building fluency and making meaning
• Texts in context
• Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
• Creating texts

Each strand is organised by sub-strands. Sub-strands group content descriptions under an appropriate concept, to provide both a focus and a clear sequence for the development of related concepts and skills within strands and across levels.

The reading program will include Phonics Plus for Foundation - Year 2 students. Comprehension strategies will be explicitly taught.

The writing program is based on research relating to the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, Presentation.