Oz-e-English Writing (Language) Unit 2: Persuasive Year 1

Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 1 is an English language strand unit for Year 1 students.

It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Language Content Strands:

Text structure and organisation:

• Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways (ACELA1447)
• Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts (ACELA1448)
• Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449)

Expressing and developing ideas:

• Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances (ACELA1451)
• Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452)

Phonics and word knowledge

• Use visual memory to read and write high-frequency words (ACELA1821) 

Note: Information on this page is subject to change as this program is currently being updated to align with version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum. GGSA will release an updated version in early 2023.

Expressing and developing ideas: 

• Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493)  

• Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text (ACELA1494)  
• Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity (ACELA1495)  
• Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA1498)  

Note: Information on this page is subject to change as this program is currently being updated to align with version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum. GGSA will release an updated version in early 2023. 

Success criteria

• Understand how characters in texts are developed and give reasons for personal preferences.
• Create texts that show understanding of the connection between writing, speech and images.
• Create short texts for a small range of purposes.
• Interact in pair, group and class discussions, taking turns when responding.
• Make short presentations on familiar topics.
• Provide details about ideas or events, and details about the participants in those events.
• Spell high-frequency words and words with regular spelling patterns accurately.
• Use capital letters and full stops and form all upper- and lower-case letters correctly.