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Ready to get yourself completely prepared for the year ahead? Look no further Australian Year 6 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 6 English content descriptors:
– Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features AC9E6LA03
– Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations AC9E6LA04
– Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups AC9E6LA06
– Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole AC9E6LA08
– Understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue AC9E6LA09
– Identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors AC9E6LE01
– Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots AC9E6LE02
– Explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry AC9E6LE04
– Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices AC9E6LE05
– Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created AC9E6LY01
– Use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions AC9E6LY02
– Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences AC9E6LY03
– Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features AC9E6LY06
Content covered in this bundle include:
Biography Writing
– Introduction to biographies
– Comparing biographies
– Text structure
– Language features: headings, paragraphs, complex sentences
– Proof reading and editing techniques
– Interview/research
– Presentation
Persuasive Writing
– Purpose of Persuasive Texts
– Text Structure
– Tools of Persuasion: Personal Pronouns and Modality Words
– Persuasive Devices
– Assessment: Students write a persuasive letter to convince someone to protect the Great Barrier Reef. This unit links with Science: Reef Warriors
Ballad Poetry
– Exploring Ballads
– Bush poems
– Poetic Devices
– Rhyme and Metre
– Quatrains
– Imagery
– Australian words
– Assessment: Students write a bush ballad based on early settlement in Australia or Federation
Newspaper Report Writing
– Purpose of Newspapers
– Features of a Newspaper
– Writing Effective Headlines
– Writing a Newspaper Article
– Interviewing
– Vocabulary
– Images and Captions
– Editing
– Facts and Opinions
– Gathering Information
– Assessment: Students write a newspaper report on a fictional event in space.
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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.
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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