the big book of old tom
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy and Personal and Social Capability.
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 2 (English) content descriptors and the NSW BOSTES Stage 1 English Syllabus.
| Language Expressing and developing ideas |
Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction (ACELA1467) (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) Recognise common prefixes and suffixes and how they change a word’s meaning (ACELA1472) (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) |
| Examining literature | Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591) (EN1-7B) |
| 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 |
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) 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) |
Source for content descriptions above: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).