“What Should I Teach and When?”
Programming For Literacy
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Features at a glance
- Rationales for each step in program development
- Overview of focal points of an English program for all of years 1 to 6
- Year level English programs for each of years 1 to 6
- Directory of basic text types for Planning Units Years 1 to 6
- Program Planning Units within each of years 1 to 6
- Program Requirements Registers for each of years 1 to 6
- Hover links to relevant ACARA Content Descriptions and Elaborations
Can you show that your yearly English program meets the curriculum requirements? A requirements table or register enables teachers and principals to be assured that requirements are being met by programs specifically based on those requirements and in a sequence aimed at optimising development of literacy understandings and skills. WhatWhen’s Requirements Registers are examples of such table formats listing integrated program units by year level and sequence.
WhatWhen’s Overview and programs are generic examples of a process which may be adapted to individual teacher or school requirements. Answering these questions relieves some of the burden on teachers of having to consider the focus, direction and coverage of a program for the whole year, whilst they are planning lessons and teaching units for the more immediate term.
WhatWhen programs follow the ACARA recommendation of the exploration of texts as the vehicle for literacy development. Program units within each year level are sequenced to build on previous learning and are “integrated and balanced across the Strands“, as recommended in the ACARA Year Level Descriptions. The planning unit formats are appropriate for integrated programs and include WhatWhen the program focal points.
The actual planning of how program units are to be taught (i.e. specific text choices, the identification and inclusion of explicit lesson plans, resources such as spelling and reading sub-programs to be utilised etc.) is, of course, up to the teacher.
Program units within each year level are sequenced to build on previous learning and are “integrated and balanced across the Strands“ as recommended in the ACARA Year Level Descriptions. Each program unit begins with an exploration of a text type or genre. It progresses understandings, knowledge and skills, through suggested understanding focal points, concept development and activity emphases, to the creation of texts.
The planning unit formats are appropriate for integrated programs and include WhatWhen program focal points. The actual planning of how program units are to be taught (i.e. specific text choices, the identification and inclusion of explicit lesson plans, resources such as spelling and reading sub-programs to be utilised etc.) is, of course, up to the teacher.
Once you become a WhatWhen registered member, you will have access to all premium content on the website and be able to download all pages as Microsoft Word documents.
Hover links to relevant ACARA Content Descriptions and Elaborations enable users to copy and paste selected attributes of those into the WhatWhen documents they have downloaded into their own files.
What They Say
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W.C. NSWMember - I will definitely use the WhatWhen English programs in my planning preparation. I think the emphasis points are very useful. I particularly like the emphasis questions. They are great cues for lesson planning…K.R. VICMember