VCE VM Units 3 & 4 Literacy

VCE VM Units 3 & 4 Literacy

Overview

VCE Vocational Major Literacy focuses on the development of the knowledge and skills required to be literate in Australia today. The key knowledge and key skills encompass a student’s ability to interpret and create texts that have purpose, and are accurate and effective, with confidence and fluency.

Unit 3 Areas of Study:

1. Accessing and understanding informational, organisational and procedural texts – be able to demonstrate the ability to locate, read and understand the purpose, audience and content presented in a variety of informational, organisational and procedural texts through application of knowledge to real-life documents.
2. Creating or responding to organisational, informational or procedural texts – be able to create organisational, informational and procedural texts that reflect a specific workplace or vocational experience.

Unit 4 Areas of Study:

1. Understanding and engaging with literacy for advocacy – illustrate understanding of the use of language in advocacy by producing a range of written, visual and multimodal texts for the promotion of self, a product or a chosen community group.
2. Speaking to advise or to advocate – complete, an oral presentation that showcases reflections and evaluations of student learning.

Forms of Assessment

• Writing tasks
• Research Activities
• Oral Presentations
• Instructional Writing

Prerequisites and Corequisites

VCE VM Unit 1 & 2 Literacy or equivalent.

Link to Study Design

VCE VM Literacy 2023-2027 Study Design