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Continuing the Story

Continuing the Story
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English Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas Examining Literature Creating Literature Literature & Contexts Language for Interacting With Others Language Variation and Change
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Encourage middle and upper primary students to plan and write a sequel to Blueback, focusing on narrative structure and conservation themes. Students collaborate to answer guiding questions before drafting, using task cards and a story structure chart. 

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E5LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced

AC9E6LA01 9

Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

ACELT1612 8.4

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

ACELT1798 8.4

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

ACELT1611 8.4

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

ACELA1516 8.4

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

EN3-7C old

Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts

EN3-2A old

Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts

EN3-3A old

Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

EN3-1A old

Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features

EN3-VOCAB-01 new

Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts

EN3-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

EN3-SPELL-01 new

Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words

EN3-HANDW-01 new

Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style

EN3-HANDW-02 new

Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts

EN3-UARL-01 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN3-UARL-02 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

VCELT328

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

VCELT327

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

VCELT316

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

VCELA363

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

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Two Stars and a Wish Feedback Form
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Curriculum Code: AC9E2LY06, EN1-VOCAB-01, EN1-SPELL-01, EN1-PHOKW-01, EN1-CWT-01, EN1-HANDW-01, EN1-UARL-01, EN1-2A, EN1-3A, VCELY230, VCELY231, VCELY233, ACELY1672, AC9E3LY06, EN2-2A, EN2-3A, ...
Year Level: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Creating Texts
Category: Resources, Worksheets
Pages: 2
Pre & Primary Essentials Membership
Two Stars and a Wish Feedback Form
Glow, Grow, Know Prompts
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E2LY06, EN1-VOCAB-01, EN1-SPELL-01, EN1-PHOKW-01, EN1-CWT-01, EN1-HANDW-01, EN1-UARL-01, EN1-2A, EN1-3A, VCELY230, VCELY231, VCELY233, ACELY1672, AC9E3LY06, EN2-2A, EN2-3A, ...
Year Level: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Text Structure & Organisation, Creating Literature, Creating Texts
Category: Resources, Classroom Displays
Pages: 1
Pre & Primary Essentials Membership
Glow, Grow, Know Prompts
The Writing Process
Details
Curriculum Code: ...
Year Level: Preschool, Foundation, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English
Category: Resources, Classroom Displays
Pages: 8
Pre & Primary Essentials Membership
The Writing Process
Blueback - Title Page and Teaching Notes
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, AC9E6LY03, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Blueback - Title Page and Teaching Notes
Exploring Settings
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, EN2-8B, ACELT1599, VCELT253, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-10C, ACELT1603, VCELT306, EN2-4A, ACELT1604, VCELT283, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 5
Exploring Settings
Characters of the Bay
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE01, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ACELT1603, VCELT306, EN2-4A, ACELT1604, VCELT283, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 3
Characters of the Bay
Character Question Cards
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE01, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ACELT1603, VCELT306, EN2-4A, ACELT1604, VCELT283, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 3
Character Question Cards
Character Study
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE01, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ACELT1603, VCELT306, EN2-4A, ACELT1604, VCELT283, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 4
Character Study
Story Map
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-8B, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Story Map
Main Event Reel
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LA01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, AC9E6LY03, AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, EN2-1A, ACELA1476, VCELA271, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-8B, ACELT1599, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 3
Main Event Reel
Diving Deep into Language
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-CWT-01, EN3-SPELL-01, EN3-HANDW-01, EN3-HANDW-02, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-7C, ACELT1612, VCELT328, EN3-2A, ACELT1798, ...
Year Level: Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 4
Diving Deep into Language
Lessons from the Sea
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE02, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-11D, ACELT1596, VCELT251, EN2-12E, ACELT1598, VCELT252, EN2-10C, ACELT1603, VCELT306, EN2-4A, ACELT1604, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 3
Lessons from the Sea
Diving into Different Viewpoints
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E5LE05, AC9E5LA02, EN3-8D, ACELA1502, VCELA335, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-RECOM-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-CWT-01, EN3-SPELL-01, EN3-HANDW-01, EN3-HANDW-02, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, EN3-7C, ACELT1612, ...
Year Level: Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Diving into Different Viewpoints
Chart the Plot
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, AC9E6LY03, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Chart the Plot
Change the Plot
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE01, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ACELT1603, VCELT306, EN2-4A, ACELT1604, VCELT283, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Engaging With & Responding to Literature, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Change the Plot
Storytelling Through Drama
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LY06, AC9E4LY06, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-VOCAB-01, EN2-CWT-01, EN2-CWT-02, EN2-CWT-03, EN2-SPELL-01, EN2-HANDW-02, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-2A, ACELY1682, VCELY266, ACELY1683, VCELY267, EN2-3A, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 1
Storytelling Through Drama
Blueback- Task Cards
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, AC9E6LY03, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Games & Activities
Pages: 11
Pre & Primary Essentials Membership
Blueback- Task Cards
Blueback - Writing a Short Story
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E3LY06, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-8B, ACELT1599, VCELT253, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 8
Blueback - Writing a Short Story
Blueback - Storyboard
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E3LY06, AC9E4LE05, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-8B, ACELT1599, VCELT253, EN2-CWT-01, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 5
Blueback - Storyboard
Grading Rubrics - Year 3-4
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E3LY06, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-8B, ACELT1599, VCELT253, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Engaging With & Responding to Literature, Creating Texts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Grading Rubrics - Year 3-4
Blueback - Analytical Essay
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, AC9E5LA02, AC9E6LY03, AC9E6LE02, EN3-8D, ACELA1502, VCELA335, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-RECOM-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-CWT-01, EN3-SPELL-01, EN3-HANDW-01, EN3-HANDW-02, ...
Year Level: Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 5
Blueback - Analytical Essay
Blueback - Representing Themes
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E6LA01, AC9E6LY06, AC9E5LE05, AC9E5LA02, AC9E6LY03, EN3-8D, ACELA1502, VCELA335, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-RECOM-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-CWT-01, EN3-SPELL-01, EN3-HANDW-01, EN3-HANDW-02, EN3-UARL-01, ...
Year Level: Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Blueback - Representing Themes
Grading Rubrics - Year 5-6
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-CWT-01, EN3-SPELL-01, EN3-HANDW-01, EN3-HANDW-02, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-7C, ACELT1612, VCELT328, EN3-2A, ACELT1798, ...
Year Level: Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Worksheets
Pages: 2
Grading Rubrics - Year 5-6
New 9.0 Curriculum
English Unit: ‘Blueback’ Tim Winton- Novel Study
Details
Curriculum Code: AC9E3LE03, AC9E4LE02, AC9E6LA01, AC9E5LE05, AC9E6LY06, AC9E3LE01, AC9E3LE05, AC9E4LE05, AC9E4LY06, AC9E6LY03, EN2-10C, ACELT1594, VCELT274, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-RECOM-01, ...
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Subject: English, Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas, Examining Literature, Creating Literature, Literature & Contexts, Engaging With & Responding to Literature, Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating, Creating Texts, Language for Interacting With Others, Language Variation and Change
Category: Unit Plans
Pages: 71
Primary + Unit Plans Membership
English Unit: ‘Blueback’ Tim Winton- Novel Study