Learning Continuum of Literacy (Version 8.4)

This element is about receptive language and involves students using skills and strategies to access and interpret spoken, written, visual and multimodal texts.

Students navigate, read and view texts using applied topic knowledge, vocabulary, word and visual knowledge. They listen and respond to spoken audio and multimodal texts, including listening for information, listening to carry out tasks and listening as part of participating in classroom activities and discussions. Students use a range of strategies to comprehend, interpret and analyse these texts, including retrieving and organising literal information, making and supporting inferences and evaluating information and points of view. In developing and acting with literacy, students:

  • navigate, read and view learning area texts
  • listen and respond to learning area texts
  • interpret and analyse learning area texts.

The element of Comprehending texts can apply to students at any point in their schooling. The beginning of the learning sequence for this element has been extended by four extra levels (Levels 1a to 1d) to describe in particular the early development of communication skills. The descriptions for Comprehending texts at these levels apply across the elements of Text knowledge, Grammar knowledge, Word knowledge and Visual knowledge.

Level 5

Typically by the end of Year 8, students:

Navigate read and view learning area texts

navigate, read and view a variety of challenging subject-specific texts with a wide range of graphic representations

Listen and respond to learning area texts

listen to extended spoken and audio texts, including audio-visual texts, respond to and interpret stated and implied meanings, and evaluate information and ideas

Interpret and analyse learning area texts

interpret and evaluate information, identify main ideas and supporting evidence, and analyse different perspectives using comprehension strategies