All Through the Year

General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking.

This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability (Systems 01.2 All life forms, including human life, are connected through ecosystems on which they depend for their wellbeing and survival).

Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: English Foundation.

Language

Expressing and developing ideas

Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school (ACELA1437) (ENe-10C)

Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786) (ENe-10C)

Know that spoken sounds and words can be written down using letters of the alphabet and how to write some high-frequency sight words and known words (ACELA1758) (ENe-5A)

Sound and letter knowledge Recognise rhymes, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (ACELA1439) (ENe-5A)

Literature

Literature and context

Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575) (ENe-8B)
Responding to literature Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) (ENe-1A)
Examining Literature

Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578) (ENe-10C)

Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELT1580) (ENe-10C) (ENe-11D)

Literacy

Interacting with others

Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) (ENe-1A)