Unit 1: Narrative Recount – Year 3
Oz-e-English: Writing (Language)

Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 3 is an English unit for Year 3 students.
It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Language Content Strands:
Text structure and organisation:
- Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478)
- Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480)
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 language features are used to link and sequence ideas.
- Understand how language can be used to express feelings and opinions on topics.
- Include writing and images in texts to express and develop, in some detail, experiences, events, information, ideas and characters.
- Create a range of texts for familiar and unfamiliar audiences.
- Contribute actively to class and group discussions, asking questions, providing useful feedback and making presentations.
- Demonstrate understanding of grammar and choose vocabulary and punctuation appropriate to the purpose and context of their writing.
- use knowledge of letter-sound relationships including consonant and vowel clusters and high-frequency words to spell words accurately.
- Re-read and edit their writing, checking their work for appropriate vocabulary, structure and meaning.
- Write using joined letters that are accurately formed and consistent in size.