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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes.
2. Encourage and model spoken language
   • Identify and use a variety of styles of verbal communication
   • Demonstrate the different functions of language in interactions
   • Monitor students’ understanding and use of language through observation, listening and conversation, and provide information to teachers to inform planning
   • Identify factors affecting language acquisition and discuss with the teacher/s
   • Use language appropriate to students’ culture, age, abilities, interests and needs
   • Use spoken language to effectively interact with students
   • Talk explicitly about language to scaffold learning
   • Model language appropriate to the situation, the purpose and the audience for students
3. Support students to read and interpret texts
   • Determine strategies for supporting students in the interpretation of texts in consultation with the teacher/s
   • Implement planned strategies to enhance the abilities of students and address their individual needs
   • Encourage students to problem-solve in order to make meaning from texts
   • Use explicit talk to focus students on specific literacy skills
4. Enhance students’ literacy skills through writing activities
   • Use accurate terminology, as planned with teacher/s, to support students’ learning
   • Implement strategies devised with teacher/s to develop students’ skills in the use of written language
   • Use planned strategies to reinforce literacy skills across all key learning areas
   • Encourage students to improve spelling skills using strategies appropriate to students’ developmental levels
   • Support students to plan their writing tasks
   • Encourage students to critically reflect on the effectiveness of their writing
   • Support students to effectively edit their writing
5. Design resources to support literacy development
   • Plan learning environments and activities in advance with the teacher/s
   • Design resources, in consultation with teacher/s, to reinforce literacy skills, while fulfilling curriculum requirements
   • Design resources to suit the developmental level of the students, as determined by the teacher/s
6. Enhance students’ literacy skills through writing activities
   • Use accurate terminology, as planned with teacher/s, to support students’ learning
   • Implement strategies devised with teacher/s to develop students’ skills in the use of written language
   • Use planned strategies to reinforce literacy skills across all key learning areas
   • Encourage students to improve spelling skills using strategies appropriate to students’ developmental levels
   • Support students to plan their writing tasks
   • Encourage students to critically reflect on the effectiveness of their writing
   • Support students to effectively edit their writing