Australian Curriculum: English Year 1 Literary Retell Learning Sequence

The Australian Curriculum: English Year Level Description for Year 1 states:

"Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, view and interpret multimodal texts designed to entertain and inform. These encompass traditional oral texts including Aboriginal stories, picture books, poetry, non-fiction, dramatic performances..."

In addition it states that:

"Students create a variety of imaginative and informative texts including recounts, performances and literary retellings."

The Year One learning sequence contained in this post was developed by Year 1 teacher Jennifer Russell from Woodlands PS in our work as a Teacher Development School.

The sequence is linked to The Australian Curriculum - English content descriptions. 

You can access The Australian Curriculum by clicking this link:

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

 

 

The sequence refers to the text "My Country" by Ezekiel Kwaymullina and Sally Morgan

 

 

Click HERE  for the Year One sequence. This will allow you to download/view the teacher's lesson plan.When you click the link it will open in Google Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWNLOAD.

There are two pages to this sequence.

The links below will take you to some student work samples to view:

Written Literary Retelling Student Work Samples

Text to Self Connections Student Work Samples

 Student text predictions:

Student brainstorms, comparing "My Country" text to "their country"

 

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Copyright notice for use of Australian Curriculum material

In regards to the planning tool in this post:

© Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2013.
This is an extract from the Australian Curriculum.
ACARA neither endorses nor verifies the accuracy of the information provided and accepts no responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate information. In particular, ACARA does not endorse or verify that:

• The content descriptions are solely for a particular year and subject;
• All the content descriptions for that year and subject have been used; and
• The author’s material aligns with the Australian Curriculum content descriptions for the relevant year and subject.

You can find the unaltered and most up to date version of this material at http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ This material is reproduced with the permission of ACARA.

SCSA A-D Work Samples

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority in Western Australia has started to upload the A-D Work Samples linked to the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards.

You can locate the samples as part of the "Judging Standards" tool from SCSA by clicking this link:

A-D Work Sample Portfolios

Some important things to note:

1. They are meant as a support document for teachers when judging standards in terms of the AC Achievement Standard
2. They do not represent the standard as a whole. Grey highlighting identifies those aspects of the achievement standard addressed in the work sample. Annotations in black text refer to the assessment pointers while those in coloured text highlight additional, specific qualities evident in the work.
3. The samples will continue to be reviewed and enhanced.

 The annotations are key in any work samples to assist with judging standards. They provide insight in to the complexities and quality of the types of things A-D achievement might display.

Woodlands PS will add the SCSA samples as part of our "moderation conversations" between teachers. Currently we use the following to support our judgements:

1. Student evidence in relation to content descriptions AND achievement standards.
2. ACARA portfolios and annotations for Satisfactory, Below Satisfactory and Above Satisfactory
3. SCSA Judging Standards Assessment Pointers

How might you and your school make use of the samples to support teacher judgements?

Australian Curriculum: English links to First Steps Foundation to Year 7

 Baynton West Primary School is a fellow Teacher Development School. They have collated a resource linking Australian Curriculum: English to First Steps. 

The fantastic thing about this document is that it not only lists the area from First Steps that the Content Description links to. It ALSO lists the exact page number in the First Steps book.

This document is very useful is bringing the WHAT to an evidence based HOW such as First Steps.

Woodlands would like to thank the team at Baynton West for all their hard work in collating this information. We have already found it very useful in our weekly planning meetings with teachers.

If you are a Department of Education in Western Australia employee, you can access the document via Connect in the Communities section. Join the Australian Curriculum English Primary (K-7) community and then locate the documents in the Library under Baynton West.

If you are a non DoE WA teacher, you can download the documents via the links below.

AC:E links to First Steps Foundation to Year 2

AC:E links to First Steps Year 3 to Year 5

AC:E links to First Steps Year 6 and Year 7

Our next Woodlands Australian Curriculum Implementation (WACI) Club is on March 27  from 4pm to 5pm at Woodlands PS.  We are focusing on:

Sharing learning sequences and judging strandards linked to "Create Written Narratives"

  To register please go to the Institute for Professional Learning Online Calendar which can be accessed through the Portal via Professional Learning.

Or please email Carlene.Thorpe@education.wa.edu.au

Craigie Heights WACI Club is on 27 March from 4:00pm to 5:00pm at

Craigie Heights Primary School. This WACI Club will focus on sharing learning sequences and assessment processes for "Create Texts." It is a FREE event. Please register via IPL.
 

Woodlands Teacher Development School now has an app available through the app store for FREE. Download the app to keep up to date with events, information and blog spots in regards to Australian Curriculum: English! Search for Woodlands Teacher Development School in the App Store!

Also follow us on Twitter @WoodlandsTDS

 

Copyright notice for use of Australian Curriculum material

© Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2013.
This is an extract from the Australian Curriculum.
ACARA neither endorses nor verifies the accuracy of the information provided and accepts no responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate information. In particular, ACARA does not endorse or verify that:

• The content descriptions are solely for a particular year and subject;
• All the content descriptions for that year and subject have been used; and
• The author’s material aligns with the Australian Curriculum content descriptions for the relevant year and subject.

You can find the unaltered and most up to date version of this material at http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ This material is reproduced with the permission of ACARA.

Australian Curriculum:English Plus Global Citizenship

Fantastic Resource!

 Global Words is a topic-based resource with twelve units of work produced by World Vision Australia and the Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) to integrate the teaching and learning of English and global citizenship education.

The topics include Refugees and Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Neighbours, Asia/Pacific, and Sustainability. These clearly align to the cross-curriculum priorities in the Australian Curriculum, for Junior Primary, Upper Primary and Junior Secondary.

The Australian Curriculum: English emphasises that Australia is a linguistically and culturally diverse country. In the curriculum rationale it states that learning through English contributes both to nation building and to a worldview.

Please note that the Global Words units of work reference Version 4 of the Australian Curriculum, and are designed for students to engage meaningfully with the three interrelated English curriculum strands of Literature, Literacy and Language.

• Literature expands the scope of students’ experiences and develops qualities of empathy and moral discernment essential to global citizenship.
• Literacy practices enable students to engage with a range of factual, persuasive and literary texts to both build knowledge and to effectively communicate across a range of contexts.
• Knowledge of the meaning-making potential of language and related semiotic resources underpins that engagement with literature and literacies.

Curriculum content descriptions are provided for each of the 12 units. 

Content descriptions in each strand are grouped into sub-strands that, across the year levels, present a sequence of development of knowledge, understanding and skills. Use Global Words quick guides to find content in the units of work by sub-stand and year level.

You can access this fantastic resource by clicking the link below:

http://www.globalwords.edu.au/australian-curriculum-english/

As with all resources we encourage you to be informed educators and audit the resource against the Australian Curriculum. There may be areas that you can further develop and provide other opportunities for your students to develop their knowledge and skills building upon the resource.

Our next Woodlands Australian Curriculum Implementation (WACI) Club is on March 27  from 4pm to 5pm at Woodlands PS.  We are focusing on sharing learning sequences and judging strandards linked to

Create Written Narratives

  To register please go to the Institute for Professional Learning Online Calendar which can be accessed through the Portal via Professional Learning.

Or please email Carlene.Thorpe@education.wa.edu.au

Woodlands Teacher Development School now has an app available through the app store for FREE. Download the app to keep up to date with events, information and blog spots in regards to Australian Curriculum: English! Search for Woodlands Teacher Development School in the App Store!

Also follow us on Twitter @WoodlandsTDS

 

Copyright notice for use of Australian Curriculum material

© Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2013.
This is an extract from the Australian Curriculum.
ACARA neither endorses nor verifies the accuracy of the information provided and accepts no responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate information. In particular, ACARA does not endorse or verify that:

• The content descriptions are solely for a particular year and subject;
• All the content descriptions for that year and subject have been used; and
• The author’s material aligns with the Australian Curriculum content descriptions for the relevant year and subject.

You can find the unaltered and most up to date version of this material at http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ This material is reproduced with the permission of ACARA.

Poetry - Year 7 Sequence Linked to Australian Curriculum:English

The Australian Curriculum:English Year Level Description for Year 7 states:

"Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view, interpret and evaluate a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is aesthetic. These include poetry."

In addition it states that:

"Students create a range of imaginative types of texts, and are beginning to create literary analyses and transformations of texts."

The Year Seven learning sequence contained in this post was developed by Year 7 teacher Maureen West from Woodlands PS in our work as a Teacher Development School.

The sequence is linked to The Australian Curriculum - English content descriptions. 

You can access The Australian Curriculum by clicking this link:

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

This sequence encompasses picture books, various types of print and digital texts, poetry, non-fiction and film based texts.

Click HERE  for the Year Seven sequence. This will allow you to download/view the teacher's lesson plan.When you click the link it will open in Google Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWNLOAD.

The Learning Circles website mentioned in the plan is accessed via the following link:

https://sites.google.com/a/berwickacademy.org/lcarusa/home/things-i-know-poems


Our next Woodlands Australian Curriculum Implementation (WACI) Club is on March 27  from 4pm to 5pm at Woodlands PS.  We are focusing on sharing learning sequences and judging strandards linked to

Create Written Narratives

  To register please go to the Institute for Professional Learning Online Calendar which can be accessed through the Portal via Professional Learning.

Or please email Carlene.Thorpe@education.wa.edu.au

Woodlands Teacher Development School now has an app available through the app store for FREE. Download the app to keep up to date with events, information and blog spots in regards to Australian Curriculum: English! Search for Woodlands Teacher Development School in the App Store!

Also follow us on Twitter @WoodlandsTDS

 

Copyright notice for use of Australian Curriculum material

In regards to the planning tool in this post:

© Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2013.
This is an extract from the Australian Curriculum.
ACARA neither endorses nor verifies the accuracy of the information provided and accepts no responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate information. In particular, ACARA does not endorse or verify that:

• The content descriptions are solely for a particular year and subject;
• All the content descriptions for that year and subject have been used; and
• The author’s material aligns with the Australian Curriculum content descriptions for the relevant year and subject.

You can find the unaltered and most up to date version of this material at http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ This material is reproduced with the permission of ACARA.