Oz-e-Writing Unit 2: Persuasive (Civics) Year 5

Teaching Resources

Lessons

Teaching Guide

Student Workbook

Persuasive – Year 5 is an English language strand unit for Year 5 students with Cross Curricular links with Year 5 HASS Civics and Citizenship.

It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: English Year Level Achievement Standards: 

English:

Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources (AC9E5LA02)

AC9E5LA03 Describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts.

AC9E5LY02 Use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea .

AC9E5LY03 Explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text .

AC9E5LY04 Navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming .

AC9E5LY05 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas .

AC9E5LY06 Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation .

HASS:

AC9HS5K06The key values and features of Australia’s democracy, including elections, and the roles and responsibilities of elected representatives .

AC9HS5K07 How citizens (members of communities) with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve a civic goal.

Success criteria

Learning Objectives

Lesson 1-5: 

• _{We will learn about the Australian Constitution. We will learn about persuasive texts and analyse the persuasive song, ‘The Australian Constitution’.}
• _{We will rewrite the persuasive song to show our understanding of the Australian Constitution. We will jointly construct a persuasive song to show our understanding of the Australian Constitution. You will plan and independently write a persuasive song or poem.}

Lessons 6-10: 

• _{We will learn about democracy. We will learn about the purpose and elements of persuasive posters.}
• _{We will rewrite a poster to show our understanding of a persuasive text.}
• _{We will jointly construct a persuasive poster for a candidate.}
• _{You will complete the Civics and Citizenship Progress Test. You will independently construct a persuasive poster to show your understanding of democracy.}

Lesson 11-15: 

• _{We will learn about the foundational maps of Australia.}
• _{We will learn about the vocabulary and meaning of the persuasive text about the Foundational maps of Australia.} 
• _{We will rewrite the text to show our understanding of the Foundational maps of Australia.}
• _{We will jointly construct a persuasive text about the importance of the foundational maps of Australia.}
• _{You will plan and independently write a persuasive text about the importance Foundation Maps of Australia.}

Lessons 16-20: 

• _{We will learn about the state and territory parliaments and voting in Australia.}
• _{We will learn about the vocabulary and meaning of the persuasive text about the state and territory governments and voting.}
• _{We will rewrite the persuasive text to show our understanding of the state and territory parliaments and voting.}
• _{We will jointly construct a persuasive text about the importance of voting for representatives to parliament.}
• _{You will complete the Civics Progress Test. You will complete the Writing Progress Test.}

Lessons 21-25 

• _{We will learn about the federal parliament. We will learn about compulsory voting.}
• _{We will rewrite the persuasive text to show our understanding of the federal parliament and compulsory voting.}
• _{We will jointly construct a persuasive text to show our understanding of federal parliament. You will plan and independently write a persuasive text.}

Assessment

Progress Tests

A total of four Progress Tests worth a combined 40 per cent of the final grade are conducted in Weeks 2, 4, 6, and 9. Progress Tests enable teachers to keep track of their students’ learning of the material covered and to pinpoint areas that require additional instruction. The Student Workbook contains Progress Tests.

End-of-Unit Assessment

In Week 7, the End-of-Unit Assessment is given, and it contributes to 60 per cent of the total grade. Each unit’s success criterion is addressed by this assessment, which is part of the Student Workbook.