CUNNING CROW
General capabilities evident throughout the unit include Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, and Intercultural Understanding.
This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture.
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English).
| Language Text structure and organisation | Understand concepts about print and screen, including how different types of texts are organised using page numbering, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, bars and links (ACELA1450) (EN1-11D) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452) (EN1-9B) |
| Literature Literature and context | Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581) (EN1-11D) |
| Responding to literature | Discuss characters and events in a range of literacy texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582) (EN1-11D) |
| Creating Literature | Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication (ACELT1586) (EN1-10C) |
| Examining Literature | Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts (ACELT1584) (EN1-10C) |
| Literacy Interacting with others | Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656) (EN1-1A) Use interaction skills including turn-taking, recognising the contributions of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace (ACELY1788) (EN1-1A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660) (EN1-10C) |