Oz-e-English: Writing (Language)

Unit 1: Narrative - Year 6 

Teaching Resources

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

Text Structure and Organization
  • 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.
Learning Objectives
In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn to:
  • write, edit and improve sentences about a character’s actions using regular past tense verbs
  • write, edit and improve sentences about a character’s actions using irregular past tense verbs
  • write, edit and improve sentences about a character’s actions future tense verbs
  • write, edit and improve sentences using imagery (touch) to describe events in a narrative
  • write, edit and improve sentences using imagery (smell) to describe events in a narrative
  • write, edit and improve sentences using imagery (hearing) to describe events in a narrative
  • write, edit and improve sentences using imagery (sight) to describe events in a narrative
  • write, edit and improve sentences using imagery (taste) to describe events in a narrative
  • write, edit and improve sentences with dialogue in the middle of a narrative
  • write, edit and improve sentences that build tension in a narrative.
Success Criteria
  • 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. 
Assessment
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. 

Lesson Objectives

Success Criteria

I Do

We Do

You Do

Edit: Peer Feedback

Effective Feedback

Reflect

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