Wk 1- Curriculum and cueing systems

Question 1

What are the three strands in the AC:E?

Answer 1

• language
• literature
• literacy

Question 2

What are the sub-strands of the literacy strand in the AC:E (V9)?

Answer 2

• texts in context
• interacting with others
• interpreting, analysing and evaluating
• creating texts
• phonics and word knowledge

Question 3

What are the sub-strands of the literature strand in the AC:E (V9)?

Answer 3

• literature and contexts
• engaging with and responding to literature
• examining literature
• creating literature

Question 4

What are the sub-strands of the language strand in the AC:E (V9)?

Answer 4

• language for interacting with others
• text structure and organisation
• language for expressing and developing ideas

previously included ‘language variation and change’ in V8.4

Question 5

What is the purpose/importance of the literature strand in the AC:E?

Answer 5

• plays a role in developing the child’s ability to think, reason, grow in logical and ethical understandings and applications
• literary texts are seen as having personal, social, cultutal and aesthetic value with potential for enriching students’ scope of experience
• texts are valued and appreciated for their form and style, and contribution to cultural, historical and social understanding
• builds students’ knowledge of the interrelationship of language and culture
• stimulates creative and critical thinking.
• enriches students’ understanding of the breadth and complexity of human experiences
• Develop understanding of themselves and their place in the world
• students to engage imaginatively and critically with literature
• Exploration of ideas, perspectives, human experience, and cultural significance
• Personal relationships and ethical and global issues in fictional and real-world settings

Question 6

List the cueing systems involved in the English language

Answer 6

• graphophonic/phonological
• syntactic
• semantic
• pragmatic
• paralinguistic

Question 7

What is the graphophonic/phonological system?

Answer 7

• ‘sound system’ of English
• the letter-sound or sound-symbol relationships of language
• involves, but is not limited to phonics (phoneme-grapheme correspondences and related spelling rules)

Question 8

What is the syntactic system?

Answer 8

• ‘structural system’ of English
• governs how words are combined into sentences (structure of the patterns in a sentence)
• governs the word-development system of morphemes

Question 9

What is the semantic system?

Answer 9

• ‘meaning system’ of English
• focuses on vocabulary
• combines background knowledge of content and language knowledge to make meaning

Question 10

What is the pragmatic system?

Answer 10

• the system that varies language according to social and cultural uses, and audience and purpose
• Standard Australian English vs Non-standard Australian English
• concerned with dialects within cultural communities

Question 11

What is the paralinguistic system?

Answer 11

• the ‘information around the text’ system of English
• factors outside the actual language used that contribute to the meaning of the text (e.g. text features such as font, layout, punctuation)
• assists readers in making predictions