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Mapping for topic 6

Last updated 12 July 2020

The following maps Paying It Forward, Foundation to Year 2, Topic 6: How I contribute to our classroom community to the Victorian syllabuses.

Mapping for topic 6 Foundation level

English

Reading and viewing

  • Read texts with familiar structures and features, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge (VCELY152) – activity 4

Writing

  • Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters and recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences (VCELA156) – activity 3
  • Understand that spoken sounds and words can be written and know how to write some high-frequency words and other familiar words including their name (VCELA157) – activity 3
  • Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (VCELY160) – activity 3
  • Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops (VCELY161) – activity 3
  • Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case (VCELY162) – activity 3

Speaking and listening

  • Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes (VCELA166) – activity 4
  • Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school (VCELA167) – activity 4
  • Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations using interaction skills, including listening, while others speak (VCELY174) – activities 1, 2
  • Deliver short oral presentations to peers, using appropriate voice levels, articulation, body language, gestures and eye contact (VCELY175) – activity 4

Mathematics

  • Describe position and movement (VCMMG082) – activity 1

Health and Physical Education

  • Practise personal and social skills to interact with others (VCHPEP060) – activity 2
  • Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations (VCHPEP061) – activities 1, 3
  • Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing (VCHPEP062) – activities 1, 3

Drama

  • Explore ideas for characters and situations through dramatic play (VCADRE017) – activity 2
  • Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and improvise characters and situations (VCADRD018) – activity 2
  • Present drama that communicates ideas and stories (VCADRP019) – activities 2, 4

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Mapping for topic 6 Level 1

English

Reading and viewing

  • Read texts with familiar structures and features, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge (VCELY152) – activity 4

Writing

  • Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (VCELA190) – activity 3
  • Understand how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words, and that some high-frequency words have regular and irregular spelling components (VCELA184) – activity 3
  • Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements (VCELY194) – activity 3
  • Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation (VCELY195) – activity 3
  • Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters (VCELY196) – activity 3

Speaking and listening

  • Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions (VCELA201) – activity 2
  • 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) – activities 1, 4
  • Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions, taking turns and recognising the contributions of others (VCELY210) – activities 1, 2
  • Make short presentations, speaking clearly and using appropriate voice and pace, and using some introduced text structures and language (VCELY211) – activity 4

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Mapping for topic 6 Level 2

English

Writing

  • Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists( VCELA225) – activity 3
  • Use visual memory to write high-frequency words and words where spelling is not predictable from the sounds (VCELA227) – activity 3
  • Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (VCELY230) – activity 3
  • Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure (VCELY231) – activity 3
  • Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position (VCELY232) – activity 3

Speaking and listening

  • Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (VCELA237) – activities 1, 4
  • Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions through initiating topics, making positive statements, and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner (VCELY244) – activities 1, 2
  • Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately, and using supportive props (VCELY245) – activity 4

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Mapping for topic 6 Levels 1 and 2

Health and Physical Education

  • Describe ways to include others to make them feel that they belong (VCHPEP075) – activities 1, 2
  • Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings (VCHPEP076) – activities 1, 3
  • Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place (VCHPEP078) – activities 1, 3

Drama

  • Explore roles, characters and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama (VCADRE021) – activity 2
  • Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation (VCADRD022) – activity 2
  • Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience (VCADRP023) – activities 2, 4

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Mapping for topic 6 general capabilities

Foundation level

Personal and social capability

Self-awareness and management

Recognition and expression of emotions

  • Develop a vocabulary and practise the expression of emotions to describe how they feel in different familiar situations (VCPSCSE001) – activity 3
  • Development of resilience Recognise that problems or challenges are a normal part of life and that there are actions that can be undertaken to manage problems (VCPSCSE003) – activity 1

Social awareness and management

Relationships and diversity

  • Practise the skills required to include others and make friends with peers, teachers and other adults (VCPSCSE005) – activity 2

Collaboration

  • Name and practise basic skills required to work collaboratively with peers (VCPSCSE006) – activity 2
  • Use appropriate language to describe what happens and how they feel when experiencing positive interactions or conflict (VCPSCSE007) – activity 3

Levels 1 and 2

Personal and social capability

Self-awareness and management

Recognition and expression of emotions

  • Extend their vocabulary through which to recognise and describe emotions and when, how and with whom it is appropriate to share emotions (VCPSCSE008) – activity 3

Social awareness and management

Relationships and diversity

  • Listen to others’ ideas, and recognise that others may see things differently (VCPSCSE012) – activities 1, 2

Collaboration

  • Use basic skills required for participation in group tasks and respond to simple questions about their contribution to group tasks (VCPSCSE0148) – activity 2
  • Recognise that conflict occurs and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate ways to deal with conflict (VCPSCSE015) – activity 3

Foundation to Level 2

Critical and creative thinking

Reasoning

  • Examine words that show reasons and words that show conclusions (VCCCTQ004) – activities 1, 3
  • Compare and contrast information and ideas in own and others reasoning (VCCCTQ005) – activity 3
  • Consider how reasons and examples are used to support a point of view and illustrate meaning (VCCCTQ006) – activity 3

Ethical capability

Understanding Concepts

  • Explore the meaning of right and wrong, good and bad, as concepts concerned with the outcomes of acts (VCECU001) – activity 1

Decision Making and Actions

  • Explore the type of acts often considered right and those often considered wrong and the reasons why they are considered so (VCECU002) – activity 1
  • Explore the effects that personal feelings can have on how people behave in situations where ethical issues are involved (VCECU003) – activities 2, 3

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QC63125