VCE VM LITERACY NAME: LAVERTON P-12 COLLEGE VCE VM LITERACY VCE VM LITERACY OVERVIEW VCE Vocational Major Literacy focuses on Along with the literacy practices necessary for the development of the knowledge and skills reading and interpreting texts, it is important required to be literate in Australia today. The key that students develop their capacity to respond knowledge and key skills encompass a student’s to texts. Listening, viewing, reading, speaking ability to interpret and create texts that have and writing are developed systematically and purpose, and are accurate and effective, with concurrently, so that students’ capacity to confidence and fluency. respond to different texts informs the creation of their own written and oral texts. Literacy empowers students to read, write, speak and listen in different contexts. Literacy Students’ development of literate practices enables students to understand the different includes an emphasis on critical literacy so that ways in which knowledge and opinion are they understand the social nature of language represented and developed in texts drawn from and how texts position readers in relation to daily life. The development of literacy in this particular ideologies. study design is based upon applied learning principles, making strong connections between students’ lives and their learning. By engaging with a wide range of text types and content drawn from a range of local and global cultures, forms and genres, including First Nations peoples’ knowledge and voices, students learn how information can be shown through print, visual, oral, digital and multimodal representations. SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT WHAT KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS WILL I BUILD? ASSESSMENT COULD INCLUDE: VM Literacy is based on an applied learning Assessment task should be designed to approach to teaching, ensuring students feel provide a range of opportunities for students empowered to make informed choices about the to demonstrate their learning. In order to be next stages of their lives through experiential efficient, each assessment task should balance learning and authentic learning experiences the demands of precision with those of efficiency, ensuring they do not create workload or stress that diminishes the performance of students.