Unit 3: Informative – Year 4

Oz-e-English: Writing (Language)

Overview

Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 4 is an English unit for Year 4 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Language Content Strands: 

  • Text structure and organisation: Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490)  
  • Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)  
  • Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech (ACELA1492)  
  • 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)  

Success criteria

  • Use language features to create coherence and add detail to their texts.
  • Understand how to express an opinion based on information in a text.
  • Create texts that show understanding of how images and detail can be used to extend key ideas.
  • Create structured texts to explain ideas for different audiences.
  • Make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, varying language according to context.
  • Demonstrate understanding of grammar, select vocabulary from a range of resources and use accurate spelling and punctuation, re-reading and editing their work to improve meaning. 

Learning objectives

In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn to:  

  1. Write, edit and improve informative sentences that introduce a topic (prepositions).  
  2. Write, edit and improve informative sentences about the environment (land management).  
  3. Write, edit and improve informative sentences about the environment (natural vegetation). 
  4. Write, edit and improve informative sentences about the local environment (water management). 
  5. Write, edit and improve informative sentences that describe and compare the characteristics of local places.  
  6. Write, edit and improve informative sentences that describe and compare the characteristics of national places. 
  7. Write, edit and improve informative sentences about renewable resources (sustainability). 
  8. Write, edit and improve informative sentences about non-renewable resources (sustainability). 

Assessment

Progress Test Progress Tests are conducted after Lesson 5. They allow teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past five lessons and to identify where reteaching is needed. The Teaching Guide contains the Progress Test script and there is a handout for students to write their answers on.  

End-of-Unit Assessment  Week 10 is the End-of-Unit Assessment, which has the same variety of question formats as the Progress Tests (e.g., multiple choice, filling in blanks/punctuation, editing, constructing, and improving sentences) to assess student mastery of sentence level writing development from the unit.  

The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions and the End-of-Unit Assessment handout for students to write their answers on. 

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