School Level Textbooks

The Victorian Curriculum F–10 incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian priorities and standards. In Levels 7 and 8, Students read nonfiction texts that are often glossed in Pinyin or supported with vocabulary lists. Written language use includes learning to read extracts from both Chinese and English literature to compare features of individual works. They learn to analyse new characters encountered in texts with a focus on mapping these character forms to their known spoken language.

The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages is now available. The shape paper provides broad directions for the development of languages curriculum. Writing of languages curriculum will now commence, starting with F-10 Chinese and Italian and a Framework for Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages.

This document describes how Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia applies to the Australian curriculum.

Asia Link aims to promote public understanding of the countries of Asia and of Australia’s role in the region. This site is a comprehensive teacher and student resource, including curriculum resources and lesson plans.

The LOTE Domain supports the teaching of a second language to all primary and secondary school students.

This site contain free resources for language teachers and students, including a section on the Chinese language.

Lists the standards and progression points for LOTE – Pathway 1 for Levels 4-6 and beyond.

Lists the standards and progression points for LOTE – Pathway 2 for Levels 5-6 and beyond.

This document outlines the two learning pathways for the LOTE domain: Pathway 1 contains six levels and the Pathway 2 consists of two levels. Standards are organised by dimension from Level 4 in Pathway 1 and Level 5 in Pathway 2.