Refugees
General capabilities evident throughout this unit includes Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Critical and Creative Thinking and Information and communication technology capability.
This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability.
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 6 (English).
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Language Expressing and developing ideas |
Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases. (ACELA1523) (EN3-6B)
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Literature Literature and context |
Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts. (ACELT1613) (EN3-8D) |
| Responding to literature |
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots. (ACELT1614) (EN3-7C) Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts. (ACELT1615) (EN3-6B) |
| Creating literature |
Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways. (ACELT1618) (EN3-7C) Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice. (ACELT1800) (EN3-2A) |
| Examining Literature | Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse. (ACELT1617)(EN3-7C) |
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Literacy Creating texts |
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience. (ACELY1714) (EN3-2A) |
| Interacting with others | Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions. (ACELY1709) (EN3-1A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings. (ACELY1717) (EN3-2A) Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings. (ACELY1712) (EN3-3A) |
| Creating texts | Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choice. (ACELY1715) (EN3-2A) |