Oz-e-English Writing

Unit 3: Informative – Year 5 is an English language strand unit for Year 5 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: English Year Level Achievement Standards:   

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704).  
• Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features (ACELY1705). 

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

• The difference between needs and wants and why choices need to be made about how limited resources are used (ACHASSK119). 
• Types of resources natural, human, capital and the ways societies use them to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations (ACHASSK120).  

Note: The content on this page is subject to change as this program is being updated to comply with Australian Curriculum version 9.0.

In Weeks 1-9, students:

• examine the text structure and language features of informative texts in the learning area of Business and Economics.  

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

• Sharing in Economics 
• Bartering as a transaction 
• Enterprise and Entrepreneurs 
• Markets in Economics 
• What are resources? 
• Production – Making things to sell 
• Choosing needs and wants in Economics 
• Labour and Wages in Economics 

• analyse the text structure, ideas, synthesis of information and language aspects of informative materials related to the study of business and economics. 

• analyse and construct sentence and paragraph structure within informative texts.

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 60 per cent to the total grade. Each unit’s success criterion is addressed by this assessment, which is part of the Student Workbook.

Unit 3: Informative – Year 6 is an English language 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).

In Weeks 1-9, students:

• 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.

Progress Tests  

A total of four Progress Tests worth a combined 40 per cent (20 per cent Writing – 20 per cent Economics and Business) 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 60 per cent (30 per cent Informative Writing and 30 per cent Economics and Business) to the total grade. The assessment covers five consecutive tasks covering five Economics and Business topics supported by five Power Points. Each unit success criterion is addressed by this assessment, which is part of the Student Workbook.