Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon

General capabilities evident throughout the unit include Literacy, Intercultural understanding and Ethical understanding.

This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.

Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 3 (English)

Language

Language for interaction

Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different way to construct meaning (ACELA1475) (EN2-6B)
Text structure and organisation Understand how different types of texts vary is use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478) (EN2-8B)
Expressing and developing ideas

Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (ACELA1484)  (EN2-9B)

Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning (ACELA1475)  (EN1-6B)

Literature

Literature and context

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reason (ACELT1594) (EN2-10C)
Responding to literature Draw connections between personal experiences and the world of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596)  (EN2-11D)

Literacy

Interacting with others

Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792)  (EN2-1A)
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferential meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680) (EN2-4A)