Australian Curriculum English - Term Planners

Australian Curriculum English

Term Planners

We would like to share our Term Planners document. You can use this document to track WHAT content descriptions you have taught each term. Our teachers use this at the END of the term to track the content they focused on for the term just gone. This allows for teachers to focus on responding to the needs of their students in regards to content - planning forward. 

 This is a tracking document only - not a planning tool for HOW you will teach the content. 

The Term Planners are in the mode view of Reading/Viewing, Writing and Speaking & Listening. They pdf contains Term Planners for Foundation to Year 7.

Click HERE to download/view the Term Planners.When you click the link it will open in Google Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWLOAD.

 

Australian Curriculum English - Noun Detectives

 Noun Detectives!

This lesson is for Year 2 students HOWEVER during the transition phase for implementing the Australian Curriculum in English, this lesson would also be applicable to Year 3 students.

 

The details of this lesson and the way it links to the Australian Curriculum as are follows:

Learning Area: English

Focus Strand: Language

Focus Sub Strand: Expressing and Developing Ideas

Content Description: Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and can be, for example, common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)

Focus Strand: Literacy

Focus Sub Strand: Interacting with Others

Content Description: Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately  (ACELY1789)

Click HERE to download/view the teacher's lesson plan.When you click the link it will open in Goggle Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWLOAD.

 

 

 

 Here is a photo of RallyRobin in action:

 Here are some student work samples as a result of the lessons and the students doing RallyCoach as a guided practice activity (click to see a larger size):

If you are interested in doing this lesson with your class, click HERE for the QuizQuizTrade cards! When you click the link it will open in Goggle Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWLOAD.

 

 

QuizQuizTrade in action:

 

 

Persuasive Text Cake!

Woodlands Primary School Year 3 teacher, Mr Casey Finlen has a Persuasive Cake to share with you today!

The "cake" bulletin board is picture below:

As the teacher has taught each "ingredient" to go in to the persuasive text "cake" it is placed on the board.

The teacher, with assistance from the students, has also listed words associated with the "ingredients".

You can click on any photo to enlarge it in another screen.

If you would like copies of the "Persuasive Cake" documents so you can make a cake please click below:

 HERE for the cake pictures

HERE for the cake labels

This will open in Google Docs and then you can click file and then download!

The Persuasive Cake caters for the following Australian Curriculum English content descriptions:

Learning Area: English

Focus Strand: Language

Focus Sub Strands: Text Structure and Organisation

Content Description: Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences). (ACELA1478)

 

Learning Area: English

Focus Strand: Literacy

Focus Sub Strands: Creating Texts

Content Description: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpoe (ACELY1682)

 

Year 1 Australian Curriculum - English Lesson Sequence

Dan the Flying Man

The details of this lesson and the way it links to the Australian Curriculum as are follows:

Learning Area: English

Focus Strand: Language

Focus Sub Strands: Expressing and Developing Ideas

Content Description: Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning (ACELA1453)

Focus Strand: Literature

Focus Sub Strands: Literature and Context

Content Description: Discuss how authors create characters using language and images(ACELT1581)

Focus Strand: Literacy

Focus Sub Strands: Interpreting, Anaylising, Evaluating

Content Description: Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)

The text is called "Dan the Flying Man" by Joy Cowley

Click HERE to download/view the teacher's lesson plan.When you click the link it will open in Goggle Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWLOAD.

 

Here are some photos of the class innovated text:

You can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.

Thanks for popping by the WHUB!

If you haven't registered for our Woodlands Australian Curriculum Implementation (WACI) Club for 21 March and would like to - please email Carlene.Thorpe@det.wa.edu.au

 

 

Pre Primary Lesson

Handa's Surprise

The details of this lesson and the way it links to the Australian Curriculum as are follows:

Learning Area: English

Focus Strand: Language

Focus Sub Strands: Text Structure and Organisation

Content Description: Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality (ACELA1433)

Focus Strand: Literature

Focus Sub Strands: Literature and Context

Content Description: Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575)

 

Focus Strand: Literature

Focus Sub Strands: Examining Literature

Content Description: Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578)

Focus Strand: Literacy

Focus Sub Strands: Interacting with Others

Content Description: Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646)

The text is called "Handa's Surprise" by Eileen Browne

Click HERE to download/view the teacher's lesson plan.When you click the link it will open in Goggle Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWLOAD.

 

Here are some samples of student responses to the text by making text-to-self connections:

If you would like copies of the student sheets please click the photos below and download from Google Docs.

"A Surprise for Dingo" - AC: English Year 2 Learning Sequence

 A Surprise for Dingo

The details of this lesson and the way it links to the Australian Curriculum as are follows:

Learning Area: English

Focus Strand: Literature

Focus Sub Strands: Examining Literature

Content Description: Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591)

Focus Strand: Language

Focus Sub Strands: Expressing and Developing Ideas

Content Description: Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469)

The text is called "A Surprise for Dingo" by Rina A. Foti and Sandra Kendell

Click HERE to download/view the teacher's lesson plan.When you click the link it will open in Goggle Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWLOAD.

Below are photos of some of the whole class discussion sheets. Click the photo to enlarge in another screen.

In the photos above you can see the "maybe" statements first using the clues from the front cover. The next photo is the modelled character analysis.  The cluster of "good" or "bad" event predicitions is the last photo. This was interesting depending on what they thought of the dingo character as to whether it was a good or bad event.

In the lesson plan you will read where students use RoundTable to write what they think the characters might be saying on the front cover. The students enjoyed doing this and they needed to build upon what previous student/s had written so the speech sequence was cohesive. Here is a photo of the students:

This photo shows their team presenting their speech bubbles:

Click HERE to download a copy of the speech bubble sheet if you would like to to this activity. When you click the link it will open in Goggle Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWLOAD.

It is interesting to note that if you read this story with a "bad" character voice for the Dingo up until the "suprise", the students really believe the dingo is a "bad" character. I showed the students how changing my voice changes their idea of what the character is like. They said I "tricked them"! :-)

This series of lessons enabled the teacher to collect Achievement Standard evidence regarding the students ability to identify language features used to describe characters.