A Walk in the Bush

General capabilities evident throughout the unit include LiteracyCritical and Creative Thinking and Personal and Social capability.

Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 2 (English)

Language

Language for interaction

Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background (ACELA1460) (EN1-1A)

Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and qualities of people and things (ACELA1462) (EN1-6B)

Text structure and organisation Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449) (EN1-9B)
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 (ACELY1470) (EN1-9B)

Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468) (EN1-9B)

Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469) (EN1-4A)

Literature

Literature and context

Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created (ACELT1587) (EN1-7B)
Responding to literature Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (ACELT1589) (EN1-4A)
Examining Literature Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591) (EN1-10C)
Creating Literature Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts (ACELT1593) (EN1-10C)

Literacy 

Texts in context  

Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts (ACELY1665) (EN1-11D)
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating 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)
Creating texts Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671) (EN1-10C)