Texts Over Time

Texts Over Time

Worksheets

English Texts in Context

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Explore news articles about plastic from the past and present with these worksheets. Paired with thought-provoking questions, this resource helps students understand how media texts reflect their context. Ideal for fostering critical thinking in the classroom.

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Rotations / Group Work
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Curriculum Codes

AC9E6LY01 9

Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created

ACELY1708 8.4

Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches

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-OLC-01 new

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

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-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

Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches

Differentiation

Modifications

Use the worksheet with 1 star in the top right-hand corner of the banner to provide students with simplified questions.

EXTENSIONS

Use the worksheet with 2 stars in the top right-hand corner of the banner to extend students.

Students can create their own newspaper article that reflects society’s attitudes and beliefs about plastic today.

Linked Resources & Worksheets

News Reports - Presentation

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Presentations

Primary + Unit Plans Membership

News Reports - Presentation

News Reports - Student Reference Card

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Resources

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

News Reports - Student Reference Card

Advertising Over Time

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Worksheets

Advertising Over Time

What Has Changed?

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Worksheets

What Has Changed?

Frosted Cocoa Crunch

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, AC9E6LY03, AC9E4LY01, AC9E5LY01, AC9E5LY03, AC9E4LY03, EN2-4A, ACELY1686, VCELY286, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-8B, ACELY1690, EN3-6B, ACELY1698, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Resources, Classroom Displays

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

Frosted Cocoa Crunch

Whole Grain Cocoa Crunch

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, AC9E5LY03, AC9E4LY03, AC9E4LY01, AC9E5LY01, AC9E6LY03, ...

Year Level: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Resources, Classroom Displays

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

Whole Grain Cocoa Crunch

Comparing Advertisements

Curriculum Code: AC9E4LY01, AC9E5LY03, AC9E6LY01, AC9E5LY01, AC9E4LY03, AC9E6LY03, EN2-4A, ACELY1686, VCELY286, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-8B, ACELY1690, EN3-6B, ACELY1698, ...

Year Level: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Worksheets

Comparing Advertisements

Speedsters Turbo Track Racing

Curriculum Code: AC9E5LY03, AC9E4LY03, AC9E4LY01, AC9E6LY03, AC9E5LY01, AC9E6LY01, EN2-4A, ACELY1686, VCELY286, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-8B, ACELY1690, EN3-6B, ACELY1698, ...

Year Level: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Resources, Classroom Displays

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

Speedsters Turbo Track Racing

Speedsters Turbo Track Racing Drift Team

Curriculum Code: AC9E5LY01, AC9E4LY01, AC9E4LY03, AC9E6LY03, AC9E6LY01, AC9E5LY03, EN2-4A, ACELY1686, VCELY286, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-UARL-01, EN2-8B, ACELY1690, EN3-6B, ACELY1698, ...

Year Level: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Resources, Classroom Displays

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

Speedsters Turbo Track Racing Drift Team

Roll and Respond- Texts Over Time

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Games & Activities

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

Roll and Respond- Texts Over Time

Key Questions to Consider

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Games & Activities

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

Key Questions to Consider

News Reports Quiz

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Resources

Pre & Primary Essentials Membership

News Reports Quiz

News Reports Assessment Rubric

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Worksheets

News Reports Assessment Rubric

Teach This Daily- News Reports

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Worksheets

Teach This Daily- News Reports

News Reports Assessment

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Worksheets

News Reports Assessment

New 9.0 Curriculum

English Unit: News Report

Curriculum Code: AC9E6LY01, EN3-3A, ACELY1708, VCELY357, EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, ...

Year Level: Year 6

Subject: English, Texts in Context

Category: Unit Plans

Primary + Unit Plans Membership

English Unit: News Report