Australian Animal Fact Files

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English Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating Creating Texts

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These Australian Animal Fact Files will be a versatile addition to your classroom. Featuring 4 different Australian animals, they have been designed to be used as part of the Comprehension – Questioning Unit, where students will read about one of the animals before answering and asking a series of questions. They can also be used to support your students with writing informative texts.

Students select an animal of their choice to read about and complete the accompanying question sheet.

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Relief Teachers

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Rotations / Group Work

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E2LY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning

AC9E2LY06 9

Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words

AC9E2LA08 9

Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text

ACELY1670 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

ACELY1671 8.4

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

ACELY1672 8.4

Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure

ACELY1674 8.4

Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs

EN1-4A old

Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

EN1-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers

EN1-3A old

Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

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

EN1-RECOM-01 new

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

EN1-SPELL-01 new

Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts

EN1-PHOKW-01 new

Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts

EN1-CWT-01 new

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

EN1-HANDW-01 new

Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts

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

VCELY222

VCELY230

VCELY231

Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure

VCELY233

Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs

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Some students may benefit using this activity with teacher guidance in a small group.

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