The English curriculum is organised into three inter-related strands - Language, Literature and Literacy. Within the strands, the processes of speaking and listening, reading, viewing and writing are represented and language elements such as spelling, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary are developmentally sequenced. It aims to ensure students:
- learn to listen, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts
- appreciate, enjoy and use the English language to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, facilitate interaction with others, entertain, persuade and argue
- understand how Standard Australian English works in its spoken and written forms
- develop an appreciation of literature.
Not only do we teach units of work that address these, at Eumundi we continually implement approaches that cater for the development on the individual child as a learner. This includes implementing a differentiated spelling program and an approach to reading that identifies the reading skills/behaviours each student requires.