Oz-e-English Writing (Language) Unit 4: Narrative Year 6

Teaching resources

Lessons

Teaching Guide

Student Workbook

Overview

Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 6 is an English unit for Year 6 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Language Content Strands:

Text Structure and Organisation

• Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (ACELA1518).
• Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses (ACELA1521).
  

Expressing and Developing Ideas

• Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas (ACELA1522).
• Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases (ACELA1523).
• Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525).
  

Learning Objectives

In lessons 1 to 9, students learn about:

• Write, edit, and improve sentences about a subject’s actions (past tense).
• Write, edit, and improve a sentence that sets the scene of a historical recount (personification).
• Write, edit, and improve sentence that sets the scene of a historical recount (metaphors).
• 6 Write, edit, and improve sentences that set the scene of a historical recount (adverbial phrases).
• Write, edit, and improve sentences that set the scene of a historical recount (idioms).
• Write, edit, and improve sentences that set the scene of a historical recount (imagery).
• Write, edit, and improve sentences that set the scene of a historical recount (imagery).

Success Criteria

• Understand how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis.
• Show how specific details can be used to support a point of view.
• Explain how their choices of language features and images are used.
• Create detailed texts elaborating on key ideas for a range of purposes and audiences.
• Make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, using a variety of strategies for effect.
• Demonstrate an understanding of grammar, and make considered vocabulary choices to enhance cohesion and structure in their writing.
• Use accurate spelling and punctuation for clarity and make and explain editorial choices based on criteria.

Resources

Teaching resources

• Lessons
• Teaching Guide

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.