This unit plan is a comprehensive resource for teaching images in texts in your Year 1 classroom. Students will learn how different types of images compliment the features of fiction and non-fiction texts. The unit includes a presentation, games, worksheets, classroom display, quiz and assessment task. The detailed and engaging unit plan requires minimal preparation time and is designed to be progressive and engaging for your class.
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning