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English Unit: Creating Digital Texts

English Unit: Creating Digital Texts
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Description

This unit plan is a comprehensive resource for teaching and assessing computer skills in your Foundation classroom. The unit includes a presentation, digital activities, classroom display, and group assessment task. The detailed and engaging unit plan requires minimal preparation time and is designed to be progressive and engaging for your class. The ICT aspects of this unit are also suitable for Year 1 and Year 2.
 

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Parents
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9EFLY06 9

Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly

AC9TDIFK01 9

Recognise and explore digital systems (hardware and software) for a purpose

AC9TDI2K01 9

Identify and explore digital systems and their components for a purpose

AC9TDI2P02 9

Follow and describe algorithms involving a sequence of steps, branching (decisions) and iteration (repetition)

AC9TDI2P04 9

Use the basic features of common digital tools to create, locate and communicate content

AC9TDI2P05 9

Use the basic features of common digital tools to share content and collaborate demonstrating agreed behaviours, guided by trusted adults

AC9TDI2P06 9

Access their school account with a recorded username and password

ACELY1654 8.4

Construct texts using software including word processing programs

ACTDIK001 8.4

Recognise and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose

ACTDIP004 8.4

Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

ACTDIP006 8.4

Create and organise ideas and information using information systems independently and with others, and share these with known people in safe online environments

ENe-2A old

Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message

ENe-3A old

Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts

STe-2DP-T old

Develops solutions to an identified need

STe-7DI-T old

Identifies digital systems and explores how instructions are used to control digital devices

ST1-2DP-T old

Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity

ST1-3DP-T old

Describes, follows and represents algorithms to solve problems

ST1-11DI-T old

Identifies the components of digital systems and explores how data is represented

ENE-CWT-01 new

Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences

ENE-SPELL-01 new

Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts

ENE-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts

ENE-HANDW-01 new

Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

VCELY161

Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

VCELY160

Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

VCELY163

Construct texts using software including word processing programs

VCDTDS013

Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose

VCDTCD017

Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

VCDTDI016

Independently and with others create and organise ideas and information using information systems, and share these with known people in safe online environments

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