Oz-e-English Top-Ups

Oz-e-English Top-Ups lessons for years F-2 students are aligned to ACARA V9.0. The following English content descriptors are explored in the lessons:

• Explore how language is used differently at home and at school depending on the relationships between people. (AC9EFLA01) 
• Understand conventions of print and screen including how books and simple digital texts are usually organised. (AC9EFLA04)  
• Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australians and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators. (AC9EFLE01)
• Explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts, such as poems, rhymes and songs. (AC9EFLE04) 
• Understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of contents, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and images. (AC9E1LA05)  
• Orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools. (AC9E1LE05) 
• Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning. (AC9E2LY05)  

In Lessons 1 to 7, students will:

Foundation Year
1.1. Language used at home at school (AC9EFLA01) 
1.2. Language used with different people at school (AC9EFLA01) 
2.1. Digital Texts (AC9EFLA04) 
3.1. Comparing our stories and ourselves (AC9EFLE01)  
3.2. Comparing our stories and ourselves (AC9EFLE01)  
4.1. Exploring rhythms and sounds (AC9EFLE04)  
4.2. Songs with actions (AC9EFLE04)  

Year 1
5.1. Parts of a book (AC9E1LA05) 
5.2. Features of screen texts (AC9E1LA05)      
6.1. Retelling stories (AC9E1LE05) 
6.2. Story-specific language (AC9E1LE05).  

Year 2
7.1. Predicting and connecting (AC9E2LY05)  
7.2. Questioning (AC9E2LY05) 

Oz-e-English Top-ups lessons for Years 3-6 students are aligned to ACARA V9.0. The following English content descriptors are explored in the lessons:

• Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australians and wide-ranging Australia and world authors and illustrators. (AC9E3LE01)
• Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences. (AC9E3LY01)
• Identify text navigation features of online texts that enhance readability, including headlines, drop-down menus, links, graphics and layout. (AC9E4LA05)
• Recognise similar storylines, ideas and relationships in different contexts in literary texts by First Nations Australians and wide-ranging Australian and world authors. (AC9E4LE01)
• Explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning. (AC9E5LA07)
• Identify and explain characteristics that define an author’s individual style. (AC9E6LE03)
• Examine texts, including media texts, that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created (AC9E6LY01).

In Lessons 8 to 14, students will:

Year 3
8.1. Character comparisons (AC9E3LE01) 
8.2. Story events (AC9E3LE01)
8.3. Story settings (AC9E3LE01) 
9.1. Identifying audiences (AC9E3LY01)  

Year 4
10.1 Navigating Online Texts (AC9E4LA05).
11.1 Comparing storylines (AC9E4LE01).  

Year 5
12.1. Making meaning from pictures (AC9E5LA07) 
12.2. Sequencing pictures (AC9E5LA07). 

Year 6
13.1. Analysing texts (AC9E6LE03). 
14.1 Targeting an Audience (AC9EGLY01)