One Tree
General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Intercultural Understanding, Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking and Personal and Social Capability.
This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priorities of Sustainability and Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia.
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 3 (English).
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Language 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) (EN2-8B) |
| 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) (EN2-8B) |
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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. (ACELT1596) (EN2-11D) Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature. (ACELT1598) (EN2-12E) |
| 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) |
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Literacy Texts in context |
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view. (ACELY1675) (EN2-11D) |
| Interacting with others |
Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations. (ACELY1676) (EN2-6B) Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence. (ACELY1677) (EN2-6B) 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. |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | 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) |
| Creating Texts |
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose. (ACELY1682) (EN2-2A) Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements. (ACELY1685) (EN2-3A) |