Year 10 - Literacy Skills (elective)

Year 10 Literacy Skills (Elective)

Overview

This subject will focus on improving students reading and viewing, speaking and listening and writing skills, with a view to improve skills around standard Australian English use. The unit predominantly encourages inquiry and project-based learning, however there will be explicit and modelled lessons around language use as well. Students who use languages other than English at home, as well as mainstream students who need support to develop their literacy skills for future VCE study will benefit from this subject.

The subject aims to improve English use across subjects, not just the English curriculum, and should be selected by any student wishing to improve their language skills.

Please note that this subject is studied alongside year 10 English and cannot be chosen as a substitute.

Types of Assessment

• Writing journals
• Reports
• Presentations
• Research tasks
• Persuasive speeches/written argument
• Folio of grammatically focused tasks

Future Directions

Satisfactory completion of this subject will provide a sound foundation for students to approach their VCE studies.