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.
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