Storm Boy

General Capabilities evident throughout this unit include Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability.

Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: English (Year 6).

Language

Language variation and change

 Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English (ACELA1515)  (EN3-1A)
Text structure and organisation Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (ACELA1518)  (EN3-7C)
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)

Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525)  (EN3-6B)

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 Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts (ACELT1615)  (EN3-6B)
Examining literature

Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style (ACELT1616)  (EN3-7C)

Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse (ACELT1617)  (EN3-7C)
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)

Literacy 

Texts in context 

  Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches (ACELY1708)  (EN3-3A)
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)

Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience (ACELY1816)  (EN3-1A)

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis (ACELY1710)  (EN3-5B)
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713)  (EN3-3A)

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801)  (EN3-5B)
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)

Use a range of software, including word-processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (ACELY1717)  (EN3-2A)