K–10English K–10 Syllabus (2022)
Provide feedback on the implementation of the English syllabus for K–2.
The English K–10 Syllabus (2022): K–2 Implementation survey will run from 8 September – 19 December 2025.
Implementation from 2024
The new English K–10 Syllabus (2022) is to be implemented from 2024 and replaces the English K–10 Syllabus (2012).
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts.
Content
Early Stage 1
- ENE-OLC-01communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults 
Content in Oral language and communication focuses on speaking and listening. For some students who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing, this will be through signing and watching Auslan as well as, or instead of, speaking and listening. Complementary content has been provided as alternative means to demonstrate aspects of the outcome for students who use other forms of communication to supplement or replace speech. Content should be taught through speaking and listening experiences, where appropriate, in combination with the student’s preferred communication forms. Teachers use the content for alternative communication forms in combination with the content for oral language to meet the needs of individual students.
- Orientate self to the speaker 
- Recognise how nonverbal language can contribute to meaning in spoken communication 
- Respond to spoken Loading 
- Follow up to 3-part spoken instructions 
- Understand how Loading can be linked to Loading to support meaning 
- Understand how the most common Loading affect the meanings of words 
- Listen for a Loading by agreeing or disagreeing, adding to the comment of others, or sharing thoughts and feelings 
- Contribute to group conversations 
- Start a conversation with a peer and/or adult, staying on topic 
- Take turns when speaking during structured and unstructured play 
- Use Loading to make requests and express needs 
- Use oral language to reason when speaking 
- Use oral language to persuade, negotiate, give opinions or Loading ideas 
- Use imaginative, verbal language in structured and unstructured activities 
- Ask questions using who, what, when, where, why or how 
- Understand there are many languages that are used by family, peers and community 
- Use short Loading and Loading when speaking 
- Use connectives such as and, but and because when speaking 
- Use regular past Loading Loading when speaking 
- Use irregular past tense verbs when speaking 
- Use a combination of Loading to elaborate and connect ideas 
- Tell a story or information to peers or adults using oral language 
- Retell favourite stories, poems, songs and Loading with some parts as exact repetition and some in their own words 
- Recall details of events or stories using who, what, when, where, why and how 
- Recognise how nonverbal language can contribute to meaning when communicating 
- Respond to symbolic, signed and/or spoken questions 
- Follow up to 3-part instructions given in speech, Loading or Loading 
- Attend to a communication partner for a purpose by agreeing or disagreeing, adding on to the comment of others, or sharing thoughts and feelings 
- Take turns when communicating during structured and unstructured play 
- Use Loading , symbols, signs in combination with, or in place of speech, to convey requests and express needs 
- Use gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech, to reason when communicating 
- Use gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech, to persuade, negotiate, give opinions or discuss ideas 
- Communicate imaginatively in structured and unstructured activities 
- Communicate using short phrases and simple sentences represented by gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech 
- Connect 2 or more ideas when communicating 
- Communicate ideas from the past using gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech 
- Use gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech, to connect and elaborate on ideas when retelling and creating stories 
- Present a story or information to peers or adults using gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech 
- Retell favourite stories, poems, songs and rhymes using gestures, symbols, signs in combination with or in place of speech