Black Cockatoo
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy, Information and communication technology capability, Personal and social capability, Critical and creative thinking and Intercultural understanding.
The cross-curriculum priority highlighted in this unit is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture.
The content in this unit of work links to the Australian Curriculum: Year 6 (English).
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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) (EN3-5B) |
| 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 | Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525) (EN3-8D) |
| Language for interaction | Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias (ACELA1517) (EN3-7C) |
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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) (EN3-7C) |
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Literacy 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) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text (ACELY1711) (EN3-3A) |
| 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) |