These texts include traditional oral texts, picture books, various types of stories, rhyming verse, poetry, non-fiction, film, multimodal texts and dramatic performances. They listen to, experience and view spoken, written, visual and multimodal texts, with the primary purpose of engaging, entertaining and informing. Students experience a variety of texts for enjoyment and to extend their experiences of the world around them. Students are provided with experiences that engage, support and extend their learning, including the use of verbal and non-verbal communication and making choices. Students’ actions and mannerisms are treated as communication and ‘interpreted’ and reacted to by adults. In Stage A, students begin to show interest in the world around them, awareness in others and of social interactions. Students are initially encouraged to develop control over their actions and mannerisms and to communicate within the social environment by reacting and responding to their immediate environment with as much independence as possible. Students become aware of their physical state and are moving from reflex responses to intentional responses. Picture symbols are utilised for making choices and to represent real objects and activities. Students are exposed to various alternative and augmentative communication systems because adults model and reinforce communication. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events. In Stage A, students begin to engage, participate and receive communication with known adults, teachers and peers.
Learning in English builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years, and teachers will revisit, strengthen and develop these as needed.
Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and Literacy.
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