Pearl Barley and charlie parsley

General Capabilities evident throughout this unit include LiteracyInformation and Communication (ICT) Capability and Critical and Creative Thinking.

Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 1 (English).

Language

Text structure and organisation

Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts (ACELA1448) (EN1-4A)

Literature

Literature and context

Discuss how authors create characters using languages and images (ACELT1581) (EN1-11D)
Responding to literature Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582) (EN1-11D)
Examining literature Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters  in different texts (ACELT1584) (EN1-7B)
Creating literature Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary (ACELA1832)

Literacy 

Creating texts

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of correct text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagram (ACELY1661) (EN1-2A)

Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs (ACELY1664) (EN1-3A)