The Red Tree

Content links to Australian Curriculum (English): Year 5 and Year 6 (NSW Stage 3).

General Capabilities evident throughout this unit include Literacy and Critical and Creative Thinking.

Language

Language for interaction

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)

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704) (EN3-2A)

Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1707) (EN4-2A)

Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view (ACELA1502) (EN3-8D)
Text structure and organisation

Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality (ACELA1504) (EN3-3A)

Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (ACELA1518) (EN3-5B)
Expressing and developing ideas

Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations (ACELA1511) (EN3-7C)

Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1701) (EN3-5B)

Literature

Literature and context

Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts (ACELT1608) (EN3-8D)

Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELY1613) (EN3-8D)
Responding to literature

Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609) (EN3-8D)

Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795) (EN3-5B) (EN3-6B)
Examining Literature

 Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses (ACELT1610) (EN3-7C)

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611) (EN3-7C)
Creating Literature

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors (ACELT1798) (EN3-2A)

Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experiences in innovative ways (ACELT1618) (EN3-2A)

Literacy

Texts in context 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 strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801) (EN3-7C)

Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1701) (EN3-5B)
Creating Texts

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704) (EN3-2A)

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)

Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1707) (EN4-2A)