Oz-e-English Unit 1: Narrative

Overview
Unit 1: Narrative – Year 6 is an English language strand unit for Year 6 students.

It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: English Year Level Achievement Standards:

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 how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas AC9E6LA05
Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole AC9E6LA08
Responses to characters and events in literary texts drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts by First Nations Australians, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors AC9E6LE01
Explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry AC9E6LE04
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

Note: This unit is currently under development.

Progress tests

A total of four progress tests worth a combined 40 per cent of the final grade are conducted in Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 9. Progress tests enable teachers to keep track of students' learning of the material covered and pinpoint areas that require additional instruction.

End-of-Unit Assessment

In Week 7, the end-of-unit assessment is given. It contributes 60 per cent of the total grade. Each unit success criterion is addressed by this assessment.

Oz-e-English Writing (Creative) Years 5–6