Australian Curriculum Matrix

When the Australian Curriculum Version 8 was released in October 2015, the LTR Learning team drew up this matrix to demonstrate the correlation between the curriculum and the LTR Language & Literacy Program.  It has since been updated.

It was very gratifying to see that all of the English components from Foundation to Year 2/3 were already included in the LTR Program. All Stages of the LTR Language & Literacy Program have additional skills and achievement standards for each year level.

 

Matrix of Australian Curriculum and LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 1

Australian Curriculum Standards – English 2015-17		F	Year 1	Year 2/3
Foundation year – language & literature		LTR Stage 1	LTR Stage 2	LTR Stage 3
Language variation	ACELA 1426 – English is not the only language spoken in Australia	✓
Language for interaction	ACELA 1428 – Different language in different social settings	✓
	ACELA 1429 – Expressing needs, likes & dislikes	✓
Text structure	ACELA 1430 – Different texts, different purposes, different lengths	✓
	ACELA 1431 – Written text is sometimes different from spoken language	✓
	ACELA 1432 – Punctuation – use of capital letters & full stops, proper nouns	✓
	ACELA 1433 – Concepts of print and screen	✓
Express & develop ideas	ACELA 1434 – Words & phrases make meaning	✓
	ACELA 1435 – Sentences are key units to express ideas	✓
	ACELA 1786 – Words & pictures give meaning in stories & informative texts	✓
	ACELA 1437 – Vocabulary development in everyday experiences, personal interests & in specific topics	✓
Phonics & word skills	ACELA 1438 – Spell words using onset & rime	✓
	ACELA 1439 – Orally generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and phonemes	✓
	ACELA 1440 – Recognise & name all upper case & lower case letters of the alphabet & know the most common sounds that each letter represents	✓
	ACELA 1817 – Can read and write some high frequency and familiar words	✓
	ACELA 1818 – Words have meaning and can have more than one meaningful part	✓
	ACELA 1819 – Can segment sentences into words and orally identify, blend & manipulate phonemes in single syllable words	✓
	ACELA 1820 – Write C-V-C words and blend sounds when reading	✓
Literature & context	ACELT 1575 – Authors create texts – may match own experience or not	✓
Responding to literature	ACELT 1577 – Respond to texts, identify favourite stories, authors & illustrators	✓
	ACELT 1783 – Share thoughts & feelings about events & characters	✓
Examining literature	ACELT 1578 – Identify features of texts, including events & characters & retell events from a text	✓
	ACELT 1785 – Differences in literary texts – beginnings & endings in traditional texts – rhyme in poetry	✓
	ACELT 1579 – Replicate rhythms & sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs & poems from a range of cultures	✓
Creating literature	ACELT 1580 – Retell familiar literary texts through performance, illustration & images	✓
	ACELT 1831 – Innovate on familiar texts through play	✓

 

Australian Curriculum Standards – English 2015-17		F	Year 1	Year 2/3
Foundation year – literacy		LTR Stage 1	LTR Stage 2	LTR Stage 3
Texts in context	ACELY 1645 – Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used	✓
Interacting with others	ACELY 1646 – Listen to & respond to texts and to others in informal & structured situations	✓
	ACELY 1784 – Audience & presenter skills	✓
	ACELY 1647 – Oral presentations to peers	✓
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating	ACELY 1648 – Identify differences between imaginative & informative texts	✓
	ACELY 1649 – Read texts aloud, practising phrasing & fluency and monitor meaning using concepts of print, context, semantic, grammatical & phonic knowledge	✓
	ACELY 1650 – Use comprehension strategies to understand & discuss texts listened to, viewed or read	✓
Creating texts	ACELY 1651 – Create texts to explore, record & report ideas and events using writing knowledge	✓
	ACELY 1652 – Shared editing – meaning, spelling, capital letters & full stops.	✓
	ACELY 1653 – Produce lower-case & upper-case letters	✓
	ACELY 1654 – Use word processing to record own texts (with one-to-one support)	✓

 

LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 1 includes all of the above, plus many more explicit skills and understandings.

General Capabilities are also covered by LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 1.

Australian Achievement Standards Foundation Year

Australian Curriculum Standards and LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 1 standards

Receptive modes – Listening, viewing & reading	LTR Stage 1	Productive modes – Speaking, writing and creating	LTR Stage 1
Students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts	✓	Students understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences	✓
They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics	✓	They can identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar texts, objects, characters and events	✓
Understand that there are different types of texts that can have similar characteristics	✓	In informal group and whole class settings, students communicate clearly	✓
They identify connections between texts and their personal experience	✓	They retell events and experiences with peers and known adults	✓
Read short, decodable and predictable texts with familiar vocabulary and supportive images	✓	They identify and use rhyme and orally blend and segment sounds in words	✓
Read with a developing knowledge of concepts of print, sounds, letters, decoding and self-monitoring skills	✓	When writing, students use familiar words and phrases and images to convey ideas	✓
Know the letters of the English alphabet in upper- and lower-case and use the most common sounds represented by most letters	✓	Their writing shows evidence of letter and sound knowledge, beginning writing and experimentation with capital letters and full stops	✓
They read high-frequency words and blend sounds orally to read c-v-c words	✓	They correctly form known upper- and lower-case letters	✓
They use appropriate interaction skills to listen and respond to others	✓
They listen for rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words	✓

 

Matrix of Australian Curriculum and LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 2

 

Australian Curriculum Standards – English 2015-17		F	Year 1	Year 2/3
Grade/Year 1 – language & literature		LTR Stage 1	LTR Stage 2	LTR Stage 3
Language variation	ACELA 1443 – Language variation & change – different communication systems suit different needs, including sign systems	✓	✓
Language for interaction	ACELA 1444 – Social language – facial expression & gestures communicate	✓	✓
	ACELA 1446 – Different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands	✓	✓
	ACELA 1787 – Verbal, visual & body language are different ways of expressing emotions	✓	✓
Text structure	ACELA 1447 – Text purpose shapes text structure in predictable ways	✓	✓
	ACELA 1448 – Patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts	✓	✓
	ACELA 1449 – Punctuation is significant – full stops, question marks, exclamation marks & their use	✓	✓
	ACELA 1450 – Concepts of print & screen	✓	✓
Expressing & developing ideas	ACELA 1451 – Identify the parts of a sentence that represent the action, the description, the subject & the circumstances	✓	✓
	ACELA 1452 – Differences in nouns, verbs, adjectives & adverbs	✓	✓
	ACELA 1453 – Compare illustrations for story & information texts & how they contribute to meaning	✓	✓
	ACELA 1454 – Different contexts demand different terms of address – formal & informal	✓	✓
Phonics & word skills	ACELA 1457 – Phoneme addition, deletion & substitution to generate new words	✓	✓
	ACELA 1458 – Recognise short & long vowels, consonant digraphs & consonant blends – reading & writing		✓
	ACELA 1459 – Varieties of sound-letter matches, a syllable must contain a vowel	✓	✓
	ACELA 1778 – Write one and two-syllable words with common letter patterns	✓	✓
	ACELA 1455 – Use simple grammatical morphemes to create word families	✓	✓
	ACELA 1821 – Use visual memory to read and write high frequency words	✓	✓
	ACELA 1822 – Segment consonant blends into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words	✓	✓
Literature & context	ACELT 1581 – Literature & context – discuss how authors create characters using words & images	✓	✓
Responding to literature	ACELT 1582 – Responding to literature – discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses, making connections to personal experiences	✓	✓
	ACELT 1583 – Express preferences for texts & authors and listen to the opinions of others	✓	✓
Examining literature	ACELT 1584 – Discuss plot, character and setting in different types of literature and different texts	✓	✓
	ACELT 1585 – Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration & rhyme	✓	✓
Creating literature	ACELT 1586 – Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance & digital forms of communication	✓	✓
	ACELA 1832 – Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary	✓	✓

 

Australian Curriculum Standards – English 2015-17		F	Year 1	Year 2/3
Grade/Year 1 – literacy		LTR Stage 1	LTR Stage 2	LTR Stage 3
Texts in context	ACELY 1655 – Respond to texts from a range of cultures and experiences	✓	✓
Interacting with others	ACELY 1656 – Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening, showing interest and contributing ideas, information and questions	✓	✓
	ACELY 1788 – Social skills – turn-taking, clear speaking, appropriate volume & pace, acknowledging the ideas of others	✓	✓
	ACELY 1657 – Short presentations with structure – opening, information, closing, any questions or comments	✓	✓
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating	ACELY 1658 – Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts	✓	✓
	ACELY 1659 – Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and text processing strategies such as prediction, meaning and re-reading	✓	✓
	ACELY 1660 – Use comprehension to determine literal and inferred meaning when listening, viewing and reading	✓	✓
Creating texts	ACELY 1661 – Create imaginative & informative texts using appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate illustrations and diagrams	✓	✓
	ACELY 1662 – Re-read own writing and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation	✓	✓
	ACELY 1663 – Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters	✓	✓
	ACELY 1664 – Create word processing texts incorporating supporting images (with one-on-one support)	✓	✓

 

LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 2 includes all of the above, plus many more explicit skills and understandings.

General Capabilities are also covered by LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 2.

 

Australian Achievement Standards Year 1

Australian Curriculum and LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 2

 

Receptive modes – Listening, viewing & reading	LTR Stage 2	Productive modes – Speaking, writing and creating	LTR Stage 2
Understand the different purposes of texts and this affects how they are organised	✓	Understand how characters are developed and give reasons for personal preferences	✓
Connect to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts	✓	Create texts that show understanding of the connection between writing, speech and images	✓
Describe characters, settings and events in different types of literature	✓	Create short texts for a small range of purposes	✓
Read aloud with developing fluency	✓	Interact in pair, group and class discussions, taking turns when responding	✓
Read texts with unfamiliar vocabulary, simple and compound sentences and images	✓	Make short presentations on familiar topics	✓
Read using knowledge of sounds, letters, high frequency words, sentence boundary punctuation and directionality to make meaning	✓	Write details about ideas or events and participants in those events	✓
Recall key ideas and recognise literal and implied meaning	✓	Accurately spell high-frequency words and words with regular spelling patterns	✓
Listen to others in conversations using appropriate language and interaction skills	✓	Use capital letters, full stops and correctly form all upper- and lower-case letters	✓
		Use question marks and exclamation marks	✓

 

Matrix of Australian Curriculum and LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 3

Australian Curriculum Standards – English 2015-17		F	Year 1	Year 2/3
Grade/Year 2/3 – language & literature		LTR Stage 1	LTR Stage 2	LTR Stage 3
Language variation	ACELA 1460 – Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background	✓	✓	✓
Language for interaction	ACELA 1461 – Understand that language varies with different roles and contexts	✓	✓	✓
	ACELA 1462 – Identify the language of appreciation for the qualities of texts, people and things	✓	✓	✓
Text structure and organisation	ACELA 1463 – Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features according to the purpose of the text	✓	✓	✓
	ACELA 1464 – Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms and antonyms		✓	✓
	ACELA 1465 – Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and that commas are used to separate items in lists		✓	✓
	ACELA 1466 – Know some features of text organisation, including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order and different types of diagrams such as timelines	✓	✓	✓
Expressing and developing ideas	ACELA 1467 – Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses, usually linked by a coordinating conjunction	✓	✓	✓
	ACELA 1468 – Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts and that there are three types of nouns – common, proper and pronouns – and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives	✓	✓	✓
	ACELA 1469 – Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images enhance or detract from the meaning	✓	✓	✓
	ACELA 1470 – Understand the use of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose	✓	✓	✓
Phonics and word knowledge	ACELA 1474 – Orally manipulate more complex sounds in words through blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution to enhance the skills of reading and writing		✓	✓
	ACELA 1471 – Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words		✓	✓
	ACELA 1472 – Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes		✓	✓
	ACELA 1823 – Use knowledge of letter patterns and morphemes to read and write high frequency words and words whose spelling is not predictable from their sounds	✓	✓	✓
	ACELA 1824 – Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables		✓	✓
	ACELA 1825 – Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations		✓	✓

 

Australian Curriculum Standards – English 2015-17		F	Year 1	Year 2/3
Grade/Year 2/3 – literacy		LTR Stage 1	LTR Stage 2	LTR Stage 3
Texts in context	ACELY 1665 – Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences	✓	✓	✓
Interacting with others	ACELY 1666 – Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend ideas in discussions	✓	✓	✓
	ACELY 1789 – Initiate topics, make positive statements and disagree appropriately, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately	✓	✓	✓
	ACELY 1667 – Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics	✓	✓	✓
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating	ACELY 1668 – Identify the intended audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts		✓	✓
	ACELY 1669 – Read with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and by monitoring meaning, predicting, re-reading and self-correcting	✓	✓	✓
	ACELY 1670 – Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and analyse texts by using knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multi modal text structures			✓
Creating texts	ACELY 1671 – Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using knowledge of text structures and language features for different audiences, selecting print and multi modal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose	✓	✓	✓
	ACELY 1672 – Re-read and edit text for spelling, punctuation and text structure	✓	✓	✓
	ACELY 1673 – Write legibly and fluently using un-joined upper-case and lower-case letters	✓	✓	✓
	ACELY 1674 – Construct texts using print, visual and audio elements using software and word processing programs		✓	✓

 

LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 3 includes all of the above, plus many more explicit skills and understandings.

General capabilities are also covered by LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 3.

 

Australian Achievement Standards Year 2/3

Australian Curriculum and LTR Language & Literacy Program Stage 3

Receptive modes – Listening, viewing & reading	LTR Stage 3	Productive modes – Speaking, writing and creating	LTR Stage 3
Can identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate facts	✓	Discuss ideas and experiences using everyday features and topic-specific vocabulary	✓
Read texts with varied sentences, unfamiliar vocabulary, sight words and images	✓	Explain their preferences for aspects of texts using other texts as comparisons	✓
They monitor meaning and self-correct using knowledge of phonics, syntax, punctuation, semantics and context	✓	They create texts that show how images support the meaning of the text	✓
Use a wide variety of letter-sound relationships to read words of one or more syllables fluently	✓	Create texts, drawing on their own experiences, imagination and learnt information	✓
They identify literal and implied meaning, main ideas and supporting detail	✓	Use a variety of strategies to engage in group and class discussions and make presentations	✓
They make connections between texts by comparing content	✓	They accurately spell words with regular spelling patterns and spell words with less common long vowel patterns	✓
They listen for particular purposes	✓	They use punctuation accurately and write words and sentences legibly using unjoined upper- and lower-case letters	✓
They listen for and manipulate sound combinations and rhythmic sound patterns	✓

 

Collated & modified by Anne Mitchell & Michelle Johnson 2017

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