English Unit: ‘Blueback’ Tim Winton- Novel Study

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English Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas Examining Literature Creating Literature Literature & Contexts Engaging With & Responding to Literature Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating Creating Texts Language for Interacting With Others Language Variation and Change

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This Blueback unit provides engaging lessons for Years 3-6, aligned with curriculum codes, focusing on characters, settings, themes, and language. Activities include creative writing, text analysis, and environmental discussions. Differentiated tasks cater to diverse learners, ensuring skill progression. Includes assessments, task cards, and activities for flexible and cohesive delivery across multiple year levels.

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AC9E3LE03 9

Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative

AC9E4LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

AC9E4LE02 9

describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions

AC9E6LA01 9

Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

AC9E5LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced

AC9E6LY03 9

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences

AC9E4LY06 9

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation

AC9E3LE05 9

Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts

AC9E3LE01 9

Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators

AC9E6LY06 9

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

ACELT1603 8.4

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

ACELY1717 8.4

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

ACELY1715 8.4

Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

ACELT1604 8.4

Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts

ACELY1714 8.4

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience

ACELT1794 8.4

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

ACELY1801 8.4

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers

ACELT1607 8.4

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

ACELT1791 8.4

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue

ACELY1694 8.4

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features

ACELY1711 8.4

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text

ACELY1695 8.4

Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure

ACELA1516 8.4

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

ACELT1601 8.4

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle

ACELY1697 8.4

Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements

ACELT1611 8.4

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

ACELT1599 8.4

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

ACELT1594 8.4

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

ACELT1798 8.4

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

ACELT1612 8.4

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

EN3-5B old

Discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts

EN3-1A old

Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features

EN3-3A old

Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

EN3-2A old

Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts

EN3-7C old

Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts

EN2-10C old

Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

EN2-8B old

Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter

EN2-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language

EN2-3A old

Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies

EN2-4A old

Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies

EN2-VOCAB-01 new

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

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-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

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-HANDW-02 new

Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts

EN3-HANDW-01 new

Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style

EN3-SPELL-01 new

Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words

EN2-OLC-01 new

Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting

EN2-UARL-01 new

Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN3-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

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

EN2-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-02 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-03 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-SPELL-01 new

Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts

EN2-HANDW-02 new

Uses digital technologies to create texts

VCELT328

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

VCELT265

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts

VCELT327

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

VCELT274

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

VCELT253

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

VCELT316

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

VCELY302

Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements

VCELY300

Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure

VCELA363

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

VCELY299

VCELT298

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

VCELT297

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

VCELY345

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers

VCELT283

Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts

VCELY358

VCELT264

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features

VCELY359

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

VCELT306

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

VCELY361

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

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