Oz-e-English Writing (Economics and Business) Unit 3: Informative Year 6

Unit 3: Informative – Year 6 is an English strand unit for Year 6 students.

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

• Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative, and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features (AC9E6LY06). 
• Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources (AC9E6LY05).
• Use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas and developing and supporting arguments and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (AC9E6LY02). 
• Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences (AC9E6LY03).

It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business Year Level Achievement Standards: 

• Influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices (AC9HS6K08). 
• Present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions (AC9HS6S07).

Success criteria

• Identify key vocabulary from the text.
• Identify the meaning of Economics and Business topics.
• Understand the purpose of informative texts.
• Identify the text features of informative texts.
• Jointly plan information reports based on the exemplar texts.
• Independently plan, write and edit informative texts.
• Create a product and a marketing campaign.

Learning Objectives

In Lessons 1 to 45, students will:

• Examine eight economics and business themes that are discussed in informative exemplar texts:

     – Supply and Demand
     – Inventions and Commodities
     – Enterprise and Entrepreneurs
     – Companies
     – Competition
     – E-Commerce
     – Pricing Nature
     – Money

• Recognise the graphic aspects, language, and structural components of instructive writings.
• Write educational texts on business and economics

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.