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VELS Info: The teacher provides opportunities for students to demonstrate their current level of understanding through verbal and non-verbal means. They explicitly teach relevant knowledge, concepts and skills. This content is represented in multiple ways. The teacher provides strategies to enable students to connect and organise new and existing knowledge. They assist students to represent their ideas, using language and images to engage them in reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. The teacher explicitly teaches the language of the discipline. They progressively assess students’ understanding and structure opportunities for students to practise new skills.

Capabilities:
 * Presents new content
 * Develops language and literacy
 * Strengthens connections

Level 4: The teacher assesses the student’s level of understanding, selecting and introducing content at individual point of need, in response to student explanation. They assist students to select strategies to demonstrate relationships between ideas and to connect new content with prior learning. The teacher challenges students to represent their understanding in multiple ways. They guide students to establish independent practice routines to reinforce and extend the student’s level of understanding. The teacher supports students to use the language of the discipline and to select the mode of language appropriate to the task. They support students to identify and use strategies to meet the literacy demands of the task.

VELS Progression Points for this section: Interdisciplinary Learning - Information and Communications Technology - creation of graphic organisers appropriate for new learning situations, using familiar software and a range of techniques to manipulate and edit a variety of data types use of nominated communications methods to acquire information from, or share information with, peers and known experts Physical, Personal and Social learning - Interpersonal Development - skills in developing a shared understanding of tasks and team plans readiness to give and accept constructive feedback about performance Discipline-based Learning - The Humanities - Geography - identification of natural processes; for example, rainfall and flood, earth movements and earthquakes, drought and bushfire Discipline-based Learning - English - interpretations of and responses to a wide range of print and multimodal texts inclusion of appropriate visual images and information in print and electronic texts identification of main ideas and some supporting details in spoken and multimodal texts
 * ICT for visualising thinking - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * ICT for communicating - Progression Point 3.50 -**
 * Working in teams - Progression Point 3.50 -**
 * Geographic knowledge and understanding - Progression Point 3.25 -**
 * Reading - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * Writing - Progression Point 3.50 -**
 * Speaking and listening - Progression Point 3.75 -**

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