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The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing studentsâ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating. Learning in English builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years, and teachers will revisit and strengthen these as needed.
In Years 5 and 6, students communicate with peers and teachers from other classes and schools, community members, and individuals and groups, in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments.
Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view, interpret and evaluate spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is aesthetic, as well as texts designed to inform and persuade. These include various types of media texts including newspapers, film and digital texts, junior and early adolescent novels, poetry, non-fiction and dramatic performances.
The range of literary texts for Foundation to Year 10 comprises Australian literature, including the oral narrative traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, as well as the contemporary literature of these two cultural groups, and classic and contemporary world literature, including texts from and about Asia.
Literary texts that support and extend students in Years 5 and 6 as independent readers describe complex sequences, a range of non-stereotypical characters and elaborated events including flashbacks and shifts in time. These texts explore themes of interpersonal relationships and ethical dilemmas within real-world and fantasy settings. Informative texts supply technical and content information about a wide range of topics of interest as well as topics being studied in other areas of the curriculum. Text structures include chapters, headings and subheadings, tables of contents, indexes and glossaries. Language features include complex sentences, unfamiliar technical vocabulary, figurative language, and information presented in various types of graphics.
Students create a range of imaginative, informative and persuasive types of texts including narratives, procedures, performances, reports, reviews, explanations and discussions.
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
By the end of Year 5, students explain how text structures assist in understanding the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings and events.
When reading, they encounter and decode unfamiliar words using phonic, grammatical, semantic and contextual knowledge. They analyse and explain literal and implied information from a variety of texts. They describe how events, characters and settings in texts are depicted and explain their own responses to them. They listen and ask questions to clarify content.
Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.
Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
50 activities in one booklet which all revolve around learning grammar in the classroom.
A 23 slide editable PowerPoint template which introduces the attributes of simple, compound and complex sentences.
Twenty editing worksheets for spelling, grammar and punctuation.
A set of 5 persuasive writing prompts, covering a variety of topics.
A collection of worksheets to enable students to apply reading comprehension strategies.
A template for students to use when planning a narrative text.
Use this poster to show your students the attributes that make up simple, compound and complex sentences.
Writing stimulus sheets with a narrative focus.
A planning template to assist students in writing a well-structured persuasive text.
A set of 4 worksheets to use when teaching your students about persuasive devices.
A 28 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about persuasive devices.
Writing stimulus sheets for persuasive writing.
Read to learn about the Great Pacific Garbage patch with a printable reading comprehension worksheet pack.
A template for students to use when planning the plot structure of a narrative text.
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article about plastic pollution in our oceans.
Explore imaginative writing in your classroom with these 3 fun story writing prompts for Easter.
Display this poster in your room as a visual reminder of the structure of an information report.
A planning template for students to use when writing a persuasive text.
A set of 5 worksheets to help your students identify descriptive language in narrative texts.
A 19 slide teaching presentation containing visual narrative writing prompts.
4 planning templates to use when writing an informative text.
A poster about the persuasive text type, including an annotated example.
A 144 page comprehension resource pack to help students apply comprehension strategies when reading.
Build comprehension skills and learn about human impact on ecosystems with a reading passage and worksheets.
A set of persuasive topic cards for upper primary.
A poster about the information report text type, including an annotated example.
Display this poster in your room as a visual reminder of the structure of a persuasive text.
A series of comic cell worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from everyday situations.
A set of 20 editing passage task cards with answers.
Learn about the planets with differentiated compare and contrast passages, activities and writing opportunities.
3 pieces of text for students to rewrite in order to make them more persuasive.