Mulga Bill’s bicycle
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy and Personal and Social Capability.
The content in this unit links to the Australian Curriculum: Year 2 (English) content descriptors and the NSW BOSTES Stage 1 English Syllabus
| Language Expressing and developing ideas |
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470) (EN1-7B) Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell words, and use morphemes and syllabification to break up simple words and use visual memory to write irregular words (ACELA1471) (EN1-5A) |
| Literature Literature and context |
Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created (ACELT1587) (EN1-11D) |
| Responding to literature |
Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (ACELT1589) (EN1-4A) Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences (ACELT1590) (EN1-11D) |
| Examining literature | Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs (ACELT1592) (EN1-1A) |
| Creating literature | Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts (ACELT1593) (EN1-2A) |
| Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting (ACELY1669) (EN1-4A) Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670) (EN1-4A) |
Source for content descriptions above: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).