Literacy
Foundational skills
The 3 foundational skills of Digital Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy describe observable skills and are fundamental to learning across the curriculum. Their development is crucial for students to build an understanding of the key knowledge and skills across all the learning areas and capabilities. They are utilised across the entire curriculum and are critical to enabling learning for all students during their school years and beyond.
The foundational skills are not described as curriculums themselves. Literacy and Numeracy are presented as progressions, and the skills in Digital Literacy are presented as a continuum. The foundational skills are provided as reference points for schools to use for curriculum planning and in their teaching practice. Future releases of the website will include resources to help teachers and school leaders use the foundational skills when planning teaching and learning for whole classrooms and for individual students.
Literacy
Literacy is defined as students’ ability to comprehend and create texts with accuracy, confidence, fluency and efficacy for learning in and out of school, and for participating in the workplace and community. Literacy is fundamental to a student’s ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society.
In the Victorian Curriculum F–10, students develop literacy by listening to, reading, viewing, speaking and writing different texts, and using language for different purposes in a range of contexts.
While much of the explicit teaching of literacy occurs in the English learning area, it is strengthened, made specific and, in some cases, extended in other learning areas as students engage in a range of learning activities with literacy demands. Success in any learning area depends on being able to use the significant, identifiable and distinctive literacy skills important for learning and representative of the content of that learning area.
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