Oz-e-English Writing (Language)

Unit 1: Narrative Year 3

Teaching resources

Lessons
Teaching Guide
Overview
Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 3 is an English unit for Year 3 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Language Content Strands:

Text structure and organisation
  • Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478)
  • Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480)

Expressing and developing ideas
  • Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement (ACELA1481)
  • Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482) 
  • Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (ACELA1484)

Note: Information on this page is subject to change as this program is currently being updated to align with version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum. GGSA will release an updated version in early 2023.
Learning objectives
In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn to: 
  • Write, edit and improve sentences about a character’s actions using regular past tense verbs.
  • Write, edit and improve sentences with a subject verb agreement (has or have).
  • Write, edit and improve compound sentences that replace the subject with a pronoun (third person – he and she).
  • Write, edit and improve compound sentences that replace the subject with a pronoun (third person – it, they).
  • Write, edit and improve compound sentences that use the possessive pronoun ‘its’.
  • Write, edit and improve sentences that start with dialogue.
  • Write, edit and improve sentences that end with dialogue.
  • Write, edit and improve sentences with dialogue ending with a (questions).
  • Write, edit and improve complex sentences (when).
  • Write, edit and improve complex sentences (where). 
Success criteria
  • Understand how language features are used to link and sequence ideas.
  • Understand how language can be used to express feelings and opinions on topics.
  • Include writing and images in texts to express and develop, in some detail, experiences, events, information, ideas and characters.
  • Create a range of texts for familiar and unfamiliar audiences.
  • Contribute actively to class and group discussions, asking questions, providing useful feedback and making presentations.
  • Demonstrate understanding of grammar and choose vocabulary and punctuation appropriate to the purpose and context of their writing. 
  • use knowledge of letter-sound relationships including consonant and vowel clusters and high-frequency words to spell words accurately.
  • Re-read and edit their writing, checking their work for appropriate vocabulary, structure and meaning. 
  • Write using joined letters that are accurately formed and consistent in size. 
Assessment
Progress test
Progress tests are conducted after Lesson 5. They allow teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past five lessons and to identify where reteaching is needed. The Teaching Guide contains the progress test script and there is a handout for students to write their answers on.

End-of-unit assessment
Week 10 is the end-of-unit assessment, which has the same variety of question formats as the progress tests (e.g. multiple choice, filling in blanks/punctuation, editing, constructing, and improving sentences) to assess student mastery of sentence level writing development from the unit.  The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions and the end-of-unit assessment handout for students to write their answers on. 

Lesson objective

Success criteria

I do

We do

You do

Edit: peer feedback

Effective feedback

Reflect

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