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UNIT OVERVIEW: COMPONENTS, EXPLANATION/DETAILS AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES

COMPONENTS EXPLANATION/DETAILS LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Unit Orientation - The unit orientation begins with the students sharing their knowledge of
the topic in a class discussion.
- The unit is also introduced through the students predicting the context of
what the focus text may be about.
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- In this unit students are provided opportunities to build knowledge of the
field.
- The main focus on the field in this unit is the information given to the
students about informative texts.
- Examples are provided in the lessons and students will look closely at
informative text structures and language features.
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- The focus text is widely used throughout the unit. The text is used to
educate the students on aspects of history as well as text structure and
language features in an informative text.
- The text is used for students to compare and contrast text types and
provides the students with the opportunity to understand the text features to
apply to formulating their own informative text.
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Re.5on#in$ to te1t. - The students are given many opportunities to respond to a range of
different types of text throughout the unit.
- The + strands of the 'ustralian ,urriculum have been incorporated in the
unit and provide the students to respond to texts in various ways.
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COMPONENTS EXPLANATION/DETAILS LEARNING EXPERIENCES
E15"orin$ te1t. - This unit gives the students the opportunity to explore a range of texts
and text features.
- %tudents are given the opportunity to explore a range of genres and gain
an insight of the structure and languages features associated with different text
types.
- Exploring texts is included in most of the learning experiences in this unit
and provides a range of features through various aspects used in the content
descriptions.
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- The unit focuses on text structures of informative texts and this feature is
included in most learning experiences
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- %tudents have the ability to express and develop ideas on the -irst -leet
by researching, listening, creating and writing an informative texts
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- The unit does allow students to use visual and multimodal features. I,T
is included in the classroom and is included in learning experiences
throughout the unit which caters for students. learning needs.
- /isual texts are used throughout the unit which provides the visual
learners with a rich learning experience.
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- %tudents are given the opportunity to create texts utilising both print and
multimodal texts throughout the unit
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- There will be a formative assessment task that students will complete
which allows the teacher to identify the students progression of learning.
- The teacher will also observe students learning through participation and
0uestions throughout this unit. %ee resources tab for formative assessment
and marking instrument$
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COMPONENTS EXPLANATION/DETAILS LEARNING EXPERIENCES
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- The summative assessment task is implemented at the end of the unit to
assess the students over knowledge of the unit.
- This assessment will illustrate how well students are able to apply their
knowledge of the content.
- The assessment will re0uire students to write an informative text on an
aspect of the -irst -leet and apply the correct structure and language features.
%ee resources tab for summative assessment and marking rubric$
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Si$ni)0ant #e9on.tration
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- The significant demonstration of learning by the end of the unit re0uire
the students to demonstrate and understanding of different texts structures and
language features of informative texts.
- 1y the end of year #, students are re0uired to explain how text structures
assist in understanding the text. 2ow they are able to develop and explain a
point of view about a text, select information, ideas and images from a range of
resources. Their writing should demonstrate understanding of grammar, select
specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation, edit their work
to provide structure and meaning.
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