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.
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
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences
Discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories
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
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication
Responds to and composes simple texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Understands and responds to literature read to them
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
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication
Build on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary