Mr Chicken All Over Australia
General capabilities evident throughout the unit include Critical and Creative Thinking and Personal and Social Capability.
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English).
| Language Language for interaction | Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes (ACELA1429) (ENe-6B) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences (ACELA1432) (ENe-9B) Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes (ACELA1430) (ENe-7B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786) (ENe-8B) Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school (ACELA1437) (ENe-6B) |
| Phonics and Word Knowldege | Recognise and name all upper and lower case letters (graphemes) and know the most common sound that each letter represents (ACELA1440) (ENe-4A) |
| Literature Literature and context | Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575) (ENe-11D) |
| Responding to literature | Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) (ENe-10C) |
| Examining literature | Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578) (ENe-8B) Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry (ACELT1785) (ENe-10C) |
| Creating literature | Innovate on familiar texts through play (ACELT1831) (ENe-11D) |
| Literacy Interacting with others | Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) (ENe-1A) |
| Creating Texts | Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) (ENe-2A) Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops (ACELY1652) (ENe-2A) |