This unit was designed to help students hone their persuasive texts skills for Year 3.
Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences
Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images
Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive 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
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
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
Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements