Bible Literacy F-6
Unit 1
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Starter Lessons
Unit Overviews
Foundation Year: The Beginning
Teaching Resources
Stories
Creation
Adam and Eve
The Fall
Noah and the Flood
The Tower of Babel
Call of Abraham
The Promise of Isaac
The Trial of Abraham
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
Foundation Year Unit 1: Bible Literacy is a religion unit for Foundation Year students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:
- AC9EFLY05: use comprehensive strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
- AC9EFLE02: respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their characters and events
Assessment
Progressive Assessment
An optional progress test will be completed in week 4 of the unit.
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment will be completed in week 9 of the unit.
Year 1: God Saves
Teaching Resources
Stories
Joseph Sold into Slavery
Joseph’s Rise to Power
The Birth of Moses
Call of Moses
The Passover
Crossing the Red Sea
The Law
The Golden Calf
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
Year 1 Unit 1: Bible Literacy is a religion unit for Year 1 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:
- AC9EFLY05: use comprehensive strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
- AC9EFLE02: respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their characters and events
Assessment
Progressive Assessment
An optional progress test will be completed in week 4 of the unit.
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment will be completed in week 9 of the unit.
Year 2: Covenant People
Teaching Resources
Stories
Creation
The Fall
Cain and Abel
The Flood
Call of Abraham
Melchizedek
The Promise of Isaac
The Trial of Abraham
Feature
Animated flipbook
Animated notes
Cultural Representation
New Zealand Christians
German Christians
Haitian Christians
Aboriginal Christians
Dutch Christians
Jamaican Christians
Russian Christians
Armenian Christians
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
- AC9E2LE02: Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences.
- AC9E2LE03: Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways.
- AC9E2LY05: Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning.
Assessment
Progressive Assessment
An optional progress test will be completed in week 4 of the unit.
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment will be completed in week 9 of the unit.
Year 3: Jacob
Teaching Resources
Stories
Selling the Birthright
She’s my Sister II
The Well Digger
Stolen Blessing
Jacob’s Two Wives
Speckled, Spotted, and Streaked
Leaving Laban
Two Camps
Feature
Animated flipbook
Animated annotations
Cultural Representation
Dutch Christians
Haitian Christians
Israeli Christians
Italian Christians
Russian Christians
Indian Christians
American Christians
Syrian Christians
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
Year 3 Unit 1: Bible Literacy is a religion unit for Year 3 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:
- AC9E3LA09: Identify how images extend the meaning of a text.
- AC9EFLE02: Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences.
- AC9E3LY02: Use interaction skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas.
- AC9E3LY03: Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images.
- AC9E3LY05: Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features.
Assessment
Progressive Assessment
An optional progress test will be completed in week 4 of the unit.
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment will be completed in week 9 of the unit.
Year 4: Saul and David
Teaching Resources
Stories
Saul Made King
Failing the Test
Anointing of David
David and Goliath
Running from Saul
Corner of the Robe
Moving the Ark
David’s Empire
Feature
Animated flipbook
Animated annotations
Cultural Representation
Russian Christians
American Christians
Syrian Christians
African American Christians
French Christians
Austrian Christians
Ethiopian Christians
Italian Christians
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
Year 4 Unit 1: Bible Literacy is a religion unit for Year 4 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:
- AC9E4LA01: Explore language used to develop relationships in formal and informal situations.
- AC9E4LA10: Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image and salience on composition of still and moving images in texts.
- AC9E4LY05: Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts.
- AC9E4LY06: Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation.
Assessment
Progressive Assessment
An optional progress test will be completed in week 4 of the unit.
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment will be completed in week 9 of the unit.
Year 5: Following God’s Law
Teaching Resources
Stories
Call of Moses
The Law
The Shema
A Furnace Filled with Fire
Psalm 34
Good Samaritan
Sermon on the Mount
Bread of Life
Feature
Animated annotations
Cultural Representation
Indian Christians
Aboriginal Australian Christians
Jewish Christians
Greek Christians
Ukrainian Christians
Brazilian Christians
Hungarian Christians
Lebanese Christians
Allusions from the Bible
A Burning Bush Moment
I am who I am
Ten Commandments
Thou Shalt Not
Mountaintop Experience
Mount Sinai
Stone Tablets
Land of Milk and Honey
All Day, Every Day
Fiery Furnace
Walking through Fire
Radiant Faces
Taking Refuge
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Helping Hand
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Hard to Swallow
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
Year 5 Unit 1: Bible Literacy is a religion unit for Year 5 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:
- AC9E5LY01: Describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created.
- 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.
- AC9E5LY05: Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas.
Assessment
Progressive Assessment
An optional progress test will be completed in week 4 of the unit.
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment will be completed in week 9 of the unit.
Year 6: God’s Prophets
Teaching Resources
Stories
Jonah and the Fish
Jonah and the Vine
Psalm 103
Call of Samuel
Elijah and the Widow
Elijah on Mount Carmel
Elijah on Mount Horeb
Elijah in the Whirlwind
Feature
Animated flipbook
Animated annotations
Cultural Representation
Aboriginal Australian Christians in Ceduna, South Australia
Turkish Christians
Hispanic American Christians
Indian Christians
Australian Christians
Syrian Christians
Russian Christians
New Zealand Christians
Allusions from the Bible
A Jonah
In the belly of the whale
40 Days
Bless the Lord
As far as the east is from the west
Days are like grass
Here I am
Destiny calls
A little goes a long way
Run dry
Fire from Heaven
On the horizon
Still, small voice
Hide in a cave
Run for your life
Double portion
Chariots of fire
Take up the mantle
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
Year 6 Unit 1: Bible Literacy is a religion unit for Year 6 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:
- AC9E6LY05: 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.
- AC9E6LA07: Identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning.
- AC9E6LA02: Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and identify bias.
- AC9E6LA04: Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations.
Assessment
Progressive Assessment
An optional progress test will be completed in week 4 of the unit.
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment will be completed in week 9 of the unit.
Other Units
- Unit 2: Coming January 2025!
- Unit 3: Coming January 2025!
- Unit 4: Coming February 2025!