Baby Business
General capabilities evident throughout the unit include Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, and Personal and Social capability.
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 variation and change | Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning (ACELA1475) (EN2-4A) |
| Language for interaction | Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations (ACELA1476) (EN2-1A) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478) (EN2-4A) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482) (EN2-9B) Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments (ACELA1483) (EN2-4A) |
| Literature Literature and Context | Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594) (EN2-10C) |
| Responding to literature | Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT 1596) (EN2-11D) |
| Examining literature | Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative (ACELT1599) (EN2-8B) |
| Creating literature | Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601) (EN2-2A) |
| 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 | Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1678) (EN2-8B) Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680) (EN2-4A) |