K–10English K–10 Syllabus
English for K−2
The new syllabus must now be taught in Kindergarten to Year 2 in all NSW primary schools.
English for 3−10
The new syllabus is to be taught in Years 3 to 10 from 2024.
2023 Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2024 Start teaching the new syllabus
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 circumstances.
Content
Early Stage 1
- ENE-OLC-01
communicates 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 questions
Follow up to 3-part spoken instructions
Understand how pronouns can be linked to nouns to support meaning
Understand how the most common inflected word forms affect the meanings of words
Listen for a purpose 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 oral language to make requests and express needs
Use oral language to reason when speaking
Use oral language to persuade, negotiate, give opinions or discuss 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 phrases and simple sentences when speaking
Use connectives such as and, but and because when speaking
Use regular past tense verbs when speaking
Use irregular past tense verbs when speaking
Use a combination of sentences to elaborate and connect ideas
Tell a story or information to peers or adults using oral language
Retell favourite stories, poems, songs and rhymes 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, signs or symbols
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 gestures, 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