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English Unit: The Gruffalo

English Unit:  The Gruffalo
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Description

One of our most requested resources, this unit is built around the classic Julia Donaldson book, ‘The Gruffalo’. It focuses on retell skills, rhyming and personal responses to the story.

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9EFLE01 9

Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators

AC9EFLE03 9

Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings

AC9E1LE02 9

Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences

AC9E1LE03 9

Discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories

AC9E1LE05 9

Orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools

ACELT1575 8.4

Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences

ACELT1578 8.4

Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text

ACELT1582 8.4

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences

ACELT1584 8.4

Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts

ACELT1586 8.4

Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication

ENe-11D old

Responds to and composes simple texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences

ENe-8B old

Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter

ENe-10C old

Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts

EN1-11D old

Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences

EN1-7B old

Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-10C old

Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

ENE-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

EN1-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas

EN1-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure

VCELT148

Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences

VCELT150

Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text

VCELT149

Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts

VCELT207

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences

VCELT208

Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts

VCELT192

Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication

VCELT193

Build on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary

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