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Ready to get yourself completely prepared for the year ahead? Look no further Australian Year 2 teachers! This complete set of our ever popular Writing units specifically aligned to the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 has everything you need to teach your students the content required.
This bundle includes the following:
These activities, powerpoints and posters compliment all the following Australian Curriculum 9.0 Year 2 English content descriptors:
– Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes AC9E2LA03
– Understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction AC9E2LA06
– Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic AC9E2LA09
– Recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists AC9E2LA10
– Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences AC9E2LE02
– Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes or songs AC9E2LE04
– Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts AC9E2LY01
– Use interaction skills when engaging with topics, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions AC9E2LY02
– Identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts AC9E2LY03
– Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters AC9E2LY08
– Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words and use knowledge of blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and phoneme substitution to read and write words AC9E2LY09
– Use knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to read and write words whose spelling is not completely predictable from their sounds, Including high-frequency words AC9E2LY11
Content covered in this bundle include:
Narrative Writing
– Fairy Tale Basics
– Deconstruct a Fairy Tale
– Characters
– Adjectives
– Establishing a Setting
– Starting a Fairy Tale
– Repetition and Rhythm
– Problems and Solutions
– Writing a Plot
– Fairy Tale Endings
Persuasive Writing
– What is an opinion?
– Features of a persuasive
– Using Persuasive Language
– Arguments and Reasons
– Emotive Language
– Reasons For and Against
– Speaking Persuasively
– Assessment: Students write a persuasive letter to save an important local landmark (this unit and its suggested assessment are linked to the Year 2 HASS curriculum: Local Landmarks – there are options to choose your own topic for students to write if you don’t want to link it to the Year 2 HASS curriculum)
Poetry
– What is poetry?
– Elements of a poetry
– Alliteration
– Shape Poems
– Personification
– Acrostic Poems
– Rhyming Words
– Rhythm and Repetition
– Rhyme Schemes
– Couplet Poems
– Assessment: Students create a poetry portfolio on stars. This links with their learning in Science: Patterns in our Sky
Autobiography Writing
– Write their own autobiography and present it to the class as an oral speech.
Your purchase includes:
– Unit Plans – each unit plan includes 20 lessons (the autobiography contains 10 lessons). Our units follow a scaffolded literacy approach where by rich texts are used to model writing skills. Some internet links are provided in some lessons to support the lesson content. In particular, links to the suggested literature (being read out loud) in the unit have been included, in case you don’t have access to a hard copy of the book. Internet connection will be required for these lessons.
– Unit Plans – each unit plan includes 20 lessons (the autobiography contains 10 lessons). Our units follow a scaffolded literacy approach where by rich texts are used to model writing skills. Some internet links are provided in some lessons to support the lesson content. In particular, links to the suggested literature (being read out loud) in the unit have been included, in case you don’t have access to a hard copy of the book. Internet connection will be required for these lessons.
– Assessment Rubrics
– Activity Bundles – this activity bundle includes a variety of activities including activity sheets, hands-on activities, posters and a suggested assessment activity.
If you liked the look of this resource, you may also like these:
– Year 1/2 Health Units Bundle
– Year 2 9.0 Science Unit Bundle
– Year 2 9.0 HASS Units Bundle
– Year 1/2 Health Units Bundle
– Year 2 9.0 Science Unit Bundle
– Year 2 9.0 HASS Units Bundle
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