ABLEWA Stage A
Stage A
Achievement standard
Reading and viewing
By the end of Stage A, students react to a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They respond to images of familiar people, objects or events. They fleetingly maintain eye contact with a person or object. They enjoy reading material as it is being read/experienced, shown or told. They can track objects, people or images for a short period of time.
Writing
When experiencing coactive writing activities students make choices between objects and images and accept and reject objects and activities. Students develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and they move their hands in response to tactile stimuli. Students can demonstrate their grasp and can hold an object briefly when it is placed in their hand.
Speaking and listening
Students listen to and react to some familiar objects, people, words and sounds within the environment by turning their head, looking, reaching out and/or vocalising. They respond to their name and to familiar items when named. Students show an interest in others and an awareness of everyday social interactions such as greeting by using gesture or vocalisation. They recognise that their reaction can change others’ behaviour. They can choose between objects, images and activities and accept or reject an object or activity. They withdraw attention if no longer interested in a topic of communication. Students attempt to imitate sounds. They have some consistent vocalisation and gestures in response to different people, activities and environments.
Stage A
Content descriptions
Reading and viewing
Encounter various forms of communication and respond to sounds, text, symbols, images or objects in their environment (ACELA1430a)
Experience sentences being used to express ideas and information and responds to different words, sounds and noise (ACELA1435a)
Respond to words and groups of words and objects in texts and in the environment (ACELA1434a)
Respond to images and words in texts (ACELA1786a)
Encounter books, print and digital texts and respond to images in the text (ACELA1433a)
Encounter words and writing within the environment and respond to spoken words in familiar environments (ACELA1440a)
Writing
Respond to images, objects and the spoken word (ACELA1431a)
Experience people speaking and communicating (ACELA1758a)
React to different sounds, and words; and respond to visual text (ACELA1432a)
Reacting to familiar voices and preferred sounds (ACELA1438a)
Speaking and Listening
Use sounds and facial expressions to affect familiar others (ACELA1426a)
Respond to a familiar person and engage with them (ACELA1428a)
Explore how sound, facial expression and actions can cause a change (ACELA1429a)
Respond to vocabulary used in everyday experiences (ACELA1437a)
Respond to different sounds and words used in everyday experiences (ACELA1439a)
Reading and viewing
Experience and respond to different types of literary texts in various modes (ACELT1785a)
React to texts, related to personal experience and familiar events (ACELT1575a)
Experience texts with different features, events and characters and respond to different literary texts (ACELT1578a)
Writing
Encounter literature being created for various reasons and purposes and react to the retelling of a literary text (ACELT1580a)
Speaking and Listening
Respond to the use of rhythms and sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs and poems from a range of cultures (ACELT1579a)
Reading and viewing
Respond to texts within the everyday environment (ACELY1645a)
React to a variety of imaginative and informative texts (ACELY1648a)
Reacting to a range of texts including visual, audio and print text (ACELY1649a)
Experience and respond to different forms of communication and texts being read or viewed (ACELY1650a)
Writing
React to the construction of text that reflects everyday events and activities (ACELY1651a)
Respond to group text and personalised text being edited (ACELY1652a)
Encounter a variety of objects and textures and hold objects for a short period of time (ACELY1653a)
React to software being used to construct texts that reflect everyday events and activities (ACELY1654a)
Speaking and Listening
Respond to various types of communication (ACELY1646a)
Respond to interaction and reactions of others (ACELY1784a)
React to others sharing and delivering a presentation on a personally or culturally relevant event (ACELY1647a)