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Ready to get yourself completely prepared for the year ahead? Look no further Australian Year 3 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 3 English content descriptors:
– understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful AC9E3LA02
– Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose AC9E3LA03
– Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of the stages of written texts, grouping related information together AC9E3LA04
– understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree AC9E3LA06
– Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating AC9E3LA07
– identify how images extend the meaning of a text AC9E3LA09
– understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense AC9E3LA08
– Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative AC9E3LE03
– Discuss the effects of some literary devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose AC9E3LE04
– Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts AC9E3LE05
– Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images AC9E3LY03
– Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features AC9E3LY05
– plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words AC9E3LY06
– Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to Fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns AC9E3LY09
– understand how to apply knowledge of common base words, prefixes, suffixes and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to read and comprehend new multimorphemic words AC9E3LY10
– Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words AC9E3LY11
Content covered in this bundle include:
Narrative Writing
– Characters and Setting
– Creating a Superhero Character
– Planning a Narrative
– Bold Beginnings
– Building the Story
– The Magnificent Middle
– Complication
– Resolution
– Concluding a Story
– Assessment – students write a narrative about a superhero.
Persuasive Writing
– What is a recount?
– Zooming in, Zooming out
– Text structure
– Languague features – transition words, sequential order, effective descriptions, vivid details, dialogue and feelings
– Assessment: Personal recount written piece (first modelled as a whole class and then independent writing based on structure taught in class)
Poetry Writing
Poetry Writing
– Elements of Poetry
– Literary Devices
– Cinquain Poems
– Diamante Poems
– Limericks
– Haikus
– Onomatopoeia Poems
– Assessment – students write a haiku poem and present it as a haiga.
Information Report Writing
– Features of a good travel brochure
– Features of a good paragraph
– Writing Topic Sentences
– Fact vs Opinion
– Language Features: Nouns and Adjectives
– Language Features: Present Tense Verbs
– Language Features: Text Connectives – Language Features: Third Person – Finding Sources, writing notes, writing from notes
– Assessment – students write a travel brochure to compliment their studies in Geography (this unit is heavily linked to our Australia and its Neighbours Year 3 Geography Unit).
Your purchase includes:
– Unit Plans – each unit plan includes 20 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. 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.
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