Oz-e-English Writing (Language) Unit 3: Informative

Overview
Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 6 is an English unit for Year 6 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Language Content Strands:

Text Structure and Organisation

Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (ACELA1518).
Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses (ACELA1521).

Expressing and Developing Ideas

Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas (ACELA1522).
Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases (ACELA1523).
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525).

Note: Information on this page is subject to change as this program is currently being updated to align with version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum. GGSA will release an updated version in early 2023.

In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn to:

write, edit and improve informative sentences about a topic (geographical diversity and location of places in the Asia region)
write, edit and improve informative sentences about a topic (Asia region and its location in relation to Australia)
write, edit and improve informative sentences about the connections between places (possessive apostrophes)
write, edit and improve informative sentences that identify Indigenous peoples who live in different regions of Asia (prepositional phrases)
write, edit and improve informative sentences about significant sites (relative clauses)
write, edit and improve informative sentences that identify geographical terms (noun groups)
write, edit and improve informative sentences that describe the location of a place (noun groups)
write, edit and improve informative sentences that identify geospatial tools (coordinating conjunctions)
write, edit and improve informative sentences that identify geographical division (complex)
write, edit and improve informative sentences that identify the effects of geographical division on a place (subordinating conjunctions).

Understand how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis.
Show how specific details can be used to support a point of view.
Explain how their choices of language features and images are used.
Create detailed texts elaborating on key ideas for a range of purposes and audiences.
Make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, using a variety of strategies for effect.
Demonstrate an understanding of grammar and make considered vocabulary choices to enhance cohesion and structure in their writing.
Use accurate spelling and punctuation for clarity and make and explain editorial choices based on criteria.

Progress Test

Progress tests are conducted after Lesson 5. They allow teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past five lessons and identify where reteaching is needed.
The Teaching Guide contains the progress test script and there is a handout for students to write their answers on.

End-of-Unit Assessment

Week 10 is the end-of-unit assessment, which has the same variety of question formats as the progress tests (e.g., multiple choice, filling in blanks/punctuation, editing, constructing, and improving sentences) to assess student mastery of sentence level writing development from the unit.
The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions and the end-of-unit assessment handout for students to write their answers on.

Oz-e-English: Writing (Language)

Teaching resources

Lesson Objectives

Success Criteria

I Do

We Do

You Do

Edit: Peer Feedback

Effective Feedback

Reflect

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