Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) F-6

Unit 3: Informative – Year 4
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Teaching Resources

Lessons
Teaching Guide
 
Overview
Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 4 is an English unit for Year 4 students
It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Language Content Strands:
Text structure and organization:
  • Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490)
  • Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)  
  • Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech (ACELA1492)  

Expressing and developing ideas:
  • Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493)
  • 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 informative sentences that introduce a topic (prepositions).  
  • Write, edit and improve informative sentences about the environment (land management). 
  • Write, edit and improve informative sentences about the environment (natural vegetation). 
  • Write, edit and improve informative sentences about the local environment (water management). 
  • Write, edit and improve informative sentences that describe and compare the characteristics of local places.  
  • Write, edit and improve informative sentences that describe and compare the characteristics of national places. 
  • Write, edit and improve informative sentences about renewable resources (sustainability).
  • Write, edit and improve informative sentences about non-renewable resources (sustainability). 
Resources
Teaching resources
  • Lessons
  • Teaching Guide 
 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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