English
In Year 5 & 6, English comprises approximately 50hours of dedicated teaching and learning time per term. This equates to approximately 20% of the total teaching time. Continued literacy development is considered paramount and the general capability of Literacy is developed through all other aspects of the curriculum, in addition to this dedicated teaching time.
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Year 5
Save one island, save them all
Students examine three main purposes of texts: Persuade, Inform, Entertain. Students analyse both literary and informational excerpts within One Small Island by Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch and other texts. Students identify the different text structures and language features appropriate to persuasive writing and identify when best to use literary devices for effect. |
A Banner Bold
Students explore narrative, informative and persuasive text forms through activities in a novel study based on A Banner Bold, a story of a young girl living on the Victorian goldfields. |
Readers' Cup & Hoodwinked
Students develop reading skills through preparation for the Readers' Cup. Through the story thread experience, students write and create texts for different purposes. |
Heroes & Villains
Through a literature and media focus, students examine the language features and devices that writers and directors use to develop characters as heroes and villains. Students take on the role of a writer or director and explain how various devices are used in a visual text to develop characters and settings to influence audience perception. |
Year 6
Why Federate?
Students write and present persuasive arguments based on the Federation of Australia. Individually and as a group they will produce a range of presentation formats, narratives and descriptions of life at the time of Federation, based on evidence from their examination of historical sources. |
Talk about rights
This unit explores the changes to democratic and citizenship rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since 1900. Students are led into issues through famous Australian speeches. They will explore how authors use language in creative ways to persuade and describe, and how people use written and spoken language to suit social purposes and address particular audiences |
We Came Because
Through literary and information texts, students explore reasons for migration to Australia. |
Procedure and Poetry
Students write a procedure on how a circuit works. Students explore various forms of poetry. |