Stage 1

Key Concept:

Characterisation

Time Frame:

8-10 Weeks

Theme:

Australian Animals

Text Set

Learning intention: To enable students to view, understand, interpret, question, create and analyse childrens literature through the deconstruction of their characters. Students will be exposed to and asked to think about how authors use poetic language to bring their characters to life for example; alliteration, onomatopoeia and chant.

Objective A

Communicate through speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing.

Objective B

Use language to shape and make meaning according to purpose, audience and context.

Objective C

Think in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretive and critical.

Objective D

Express themselves and their relationships with others and their world.

Objective E

Learn and reflect on their learning through their study of English.

Speaking and Listening 1

EN1-1A Communicates with a range of people in informal & guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to & compose texts

Writing & Representing 1

EN1-2A Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to & compose texts

Hwriting & Digital Technologies

EN1-3A Composes texts using letters of consistent size & slope & uses digital technologies.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to & compose texts

Reading & Viewing1

EN1-4A draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Develop and apply graphological, phonological, syntactic & semantic knowledge.

Respond to, read & view texts

Spelling

EN1-5A Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and lettersound correspondences, to spell familiar words.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to & compose texts

Speaking and Listening 1

EN1-6B Recognises a range of purposes & audiences for spoken language & recognises organisational patterns & features of predictable spoken texts

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to & compose texts

Writing & Representing 2

EN1-7B Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to & compose texts

Reading & Viewing 2

EN1-8B recognises that there are different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of

language forms and features

Respond to, read & view texts

Grammar, Punctuation & Vocab

EN1-9B Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts.

Develop & apply contextual knowledge

Understand & apply knowledge of language forms and features

Understanding & apply knowledge of vocabulary

Respond to & compose texts

Thinking Imaginatively & Creatively

EN1-10C Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts.

Engage personally with texts

Develop and apply contextual knowledge

Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to and compose texts

Expressing Themselves

EN1-11D Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences.

Engage personally with texts

Develop and apply contextual knowledge

Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to and compose texts

Reflecting on Learning

EN1-12E Identifies and discusses aspects of their own and others learning.

Develop and apply contextual knowledge

Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

Respond to and compose texts

Objectives

Outcomes

Content

Resources

Objective A

Communicate through speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing.

EN1-1A A student: communicates with a range of people in informal and guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations

EN1-2A A student:plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers

EN1-3A A student:composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies

EN1-4A A student:draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

Speaking and Listening 1

identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs (ACELT1592)

use role-play and drama to represent familiar events and characters in texts

Writing & Representing 1

create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge oftext structures andlanguage features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to theaudience and purpose (ACELY1661, ACELY1671)

compose texts supported by visual information (eg diagrams and maps) on familiar topics

Hwriting & Digital Technologies

understand thathandwriting and presentation of work needs to reflectaudience andpurpose in order to communicate effectively

Reading & Viewing1

discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts (ACELY1665)

understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts (ACELA1448)

identify visualrepresentations 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)

compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (ACELT1589)

Objective B

Use language to shape and make meaning according to purpose, audience and context.

EN1-6B A student:recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts

EN1-7B A student:identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-9B A student:uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

Speaking and Listening 2

listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns includingalliteration and rhyme (ACELT1585)

Writing & Representing 2

identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1668)

draw on personal experience and feelings as subject matterto compose imaginative and other texts for different purposes

makeinferences about character motives, actions, qualities and characteristics when responding to texts

Reading & Viewing 2

Grammar, Punctuation & Vocab

explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452)

recognise, discuss and use creative word play, eg alliteration andonomatopoeia

Objective C

Think in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretive and critical.

EN1-10C A student: thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

Thinking Imaginatively & Creatively

recognise the way that different texts create different personal responses

recognise and begin to understand how composers use creative features to engage their audience

identify creative language features inimaginative texts that enhance enjoyment, eg illustrations, repetition

recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication (ACELT1586)

use creative and imaginative features in role-play and drama

Objective D

Express thems