Year 5 Program

WEEK	UNIT	EXPLORING TEXTS	SPEAKING AND LISTENING	LANGUAGE		READING SKILLS	CREATING TEXTS
WEEK	UNIT	EXPLORING TEXTS	SPEAKING AND LISTENING	SPELLING	TEXT STRUCTURES	READING SKILLS	CREATING TEXTS
1 - 3	Unit 5:1	Explore selected familiar narrative texts with computer-based graphics, animation and 2D qualities 511\|611 Identify purpose, topic, structure and formality of texts 504\|701 Identify setting of text(i.e. fantasy or realistic) 504 Identify characters and their traits portrayed in texts 504 Describe effects of text features on audience 795	Participate in conversations and discussions using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion about features of texts 796 Give opinions, ask pertinent questions and link own responses to contributions of others 502\|796 Discuss and plan creation of narrative texts utilising elements of familiar texts 798	Understand how to use banks of words plus word origins, prefixes, suffixes and morphemes to spell new words 513	Understand conventions of punctuation in lists and use of apostrophes in possession 506 Understand use of noun and adjective groups for fuller descriptions 508 Understand features of narrative texts: main idea; characterisation; setting and narrative point of view 798	Read texts for purpose bringing subject and technical knowledge and concept knowledge to new reading tasks 702 Use comprehension skills to link information from various sources 703	Develop legible, fluent and automatic handwriting 706 Use software to plan and create narrative texts utilising elements of familiar texts 707\|612 Reread and edit 705
4 - 5	Unit 5:2	Explore selected contemporary protest songs about indigenous peoples and/or the environment 611 Identify the purpose, structure and formality of the songs 504 \|698 Describe effects of text features on audience 795 Identify details in historical and cultural contexts 608 Identify examples of sound devices and imagery, simile and metaphor 611	Participate in conversations and discussions using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion 796 Ask pertinent questions and link own responses to contributions 796 Choose vocabulary, images and sentence structures for purpose to report and explain point of view and persuade others 502\|796 Experiment with voice effects in presentations 796	Use word origin to spell unknown words 513 Recognise subject and technical vocabulary 702	Understand vocabulary can be used to express more precise meaning e.g. moving from general all-purpose words, for example “cut” to more specific words, for example “slice”, ”dice ”fillet” “segment” 512 Review figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification 611 Review sound devices 611	Read texts for purpose bringing subject and technical knowledge and concept knowledge to new reading tasks 702 Use comprehension skills to link information from various sources 703	Develop legible, fluent and automatic handwriting 706 Plan, write, rehearse and present a report on one protest song, explaining a point of view and use reasons and vocabulary to persuade others 609\|700\|796 Reread and edit for flow and sense, organisation of ideas and choice of language 705

500	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time (ACELA1500)	recognising that a knowledge of word origins is not only interesting in its own right, but that it extends students’ knowledge of vocabulary and spelling exploring examples of words in which pronunciation, writing and meaning has changed over time, including words from a range of cultures
	NSW Outcome EN3-4A: A student draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
501	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships (ACELA1501)	identifying ways in which cultures differ in making and responding to common requests, for example periods of silence, degrees of formality
	NSW Outcome EN3-1A: A student communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
502	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view (ACELA1502)	recognising that a bare assertion (for example 'It's the best film this year') often needs to be tempered by: using the 'impersonal it' to distance oneself (for example 'It could be that it is the best film this year'); recruiting anonymous support (for example 'It is generally agreed that it is the best film this year.'); indicating a general source of the opinion (for example 'Most critics agree that it is the best film this year.'); specifying the source of the opinion (for example 'David and Margaret both agree that it is the best film this year') and reflecting on the effect of these different choices
	NSW Outcome EN3-8D: A student identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
504	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality (ACELA1504)	becoming familiar with the typical stages and language features of such text types as: narrative, procedure, exposition, explanation, discussion and informative text and how they can be composed and presented in written, digital and multimedia forms
	NSW Outcome EN3-3A: A student uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
505	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold (ACELA1505)	observing how writers use the beginning of a sentence to signal to the reader how the text is developing (for example 'Snakes are reptiles. They have scales and no legs. Many snakes are poisonous. However, in Australia they are protected')
	NSW Outcome EN3-3A: A student uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
506	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes with common and proper nouns (ACELA1506)	learning that in Standard Australian English regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘my parents' car’ learning that in Standard Australian English for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ house
	NSW Outcome EN3-6B: A student uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
797	Content Description	Elaboration
	Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation (ACELA1797)
	NSW Outcome EN3-5B: A student discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
507	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand the difference between main and subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause (ACELA1507)	knowing that complex sentences is to makes connections between ideas, such as: to provide a reason, for example 'He jumped up because the bell rang.'; to state a purpose, for example 'She raced home in order to confront her brother.'; to express a condition, for example 'It will break if you push it.'; to make a concession, for example 'She went to work even though she was not feeling well.'; to link two ideas in terms of various time relations, for example 'Nero fiddled while Rome burned.' knowing that a complex sentence typically consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause
	NSW Outcome EN3-6B: A student uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
508	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea (ACELA1508)	learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives – ‘Two old brown cattle dogs sat on the ruined front veranda of the deserted house’ observing how descriptive details can be built up around a noun or an adjective, forming a group/phrase (for example, ‘this very smelly cleaning cloth in the sink’ is a noun group/phrase and ‘as pretty as the flowers in May’ is an adjective group/phrase)

	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
511	Content Description	Elaboration
	Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations (ACELA1511)	interpreting narrative texts told as wordless picture books identifying and comparing sequences of images revealed through different hyperlink choices
	NSW Outcome EN3-3A: A student uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
512	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (ACELA1512)	moving from general, ‘all-purpose’ words, for example ‘cut’, to more specific words, for example ‘slice’, ‘dice’, ‘fillet’, ‘segment’
	NSW Outcome EN3-6B: A student uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
513	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand how to use banks of known words, as well as word origins, prefixes and suffixes, to learn and spell new words (ACELA1513)	learning that many complex words were originally hyphenated but are now written without a hyphen, for example ‘uncommon’, ‘renew’ ‘email’ and ‘refine’ talking about how suffixes change over time and new forms are invented to reflect changing attitudes to gender, for example ‘policewoman’, ‘salesperson’; ‘air hostess’/‘steward’ or ‘flight attendant’
	NSW Outcome EN3-4A: A student draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
514	Content Description	Elaboration
	Recognise uncommon plurals, for example ‘foci’ (ACELA1514)	using knowledge of word origins and roots and related words to interpret and spell unfamiliar words, and learning about how these roots impact on plurals
	NSW Outcome EN3-4A: A student draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
608	Content Description	Elaboration
	Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts (ACELT1608)	describing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, symbolic elements, dialogue and character descriptions, can convey information about cultural elements, such as beliefs, traditions and customs identifying variability within cultural contexts in literary texts, recognising the diversity of people’s experiences within a cultural group such as differences in setting and lifestyle between urban and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
	NSW Outcome EN3-8D: A student identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
609	Content Description	Elaboration
	Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609)	posing and discussing questions, such as ‘Should this character have behaved as they did?’, and beginning to make balanced judgments about the dilemmas characters face and relative merit and harm
	NSW Outcome EN3-2A: A student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
795	Content Description	Elaboration
	Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795)	orally, in writing or using digital media, giving a considered interpretation and opinion about a literary text, recognising that a student’s view may not be shared by others and that others have equal claims to divergent views
	NSW Outcome EN3-1A: A student communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
610	Content Description	Elaboration
	Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses (ACELT1610)	identifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experiences the story) in a literary work, discussing the impact of first person narration on empathy and engagement examining texts written from different narrative points of view and discussing what information the audience can access, how this impacts on the audience’s sympathies, and why an author might choose a particular narrative point of view examining the narrative voice in texts from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions, which include perspectives of animals and spirits, about how we should care for the Earth, for example reflecting on how this affects significance, interpretation and response
	NSW Outcome EN3-8D: A student identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
611	Content Description	Elaboration
	Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611)	discussing how figurative language including simile and metaphor can make use of a comparison between different things, for example ‘My love is like a red, red rose’; ‘Tyger!, Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night’; and how by appealing to the imagination, it provides new ways of looking at the world investigating the qualities of contemporary protest songs, for example those about Indigenous peoples and those about the environment
	NSW Outcome EN3-3A: A student uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
612	Content Description	Elaboration
	Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced (ACELT1612)	using texts with computer-based graphics, animation and 2D qualities, consider how and why particular traits for a character have been chosen
	NSW Outcome EN3-7C: A student thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
798	Content Description	Elaboration
	Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors (ACELT1798)	drawing upon fiction elements in a range of model texts - for example main idea, characterisation, setting (time and place), narrative point of view; and devices, for example figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification), as well as non-verbal conventions in digital and screen texts - in order to experiment with new, creative ways of communicating ideas, experiences and stories in literary texts
	NSW Outcome EN3-2A: A student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
698	Content Description	Elaboration
	Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context (ACELY1698)	identifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experiences the story) in a literary work, discussing the impact of first person narration on empathy and engagement
	NSW Outcome EN3-6B: A student uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
699	Content Description	Elaboration
	Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences and present and justify a point of view (ACELY1699)	asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions
	NSW Outcome EN3-8D: A student identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
796	Content Description	Elaboration
	Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes (ACELY1796)	participating in pair, group, class and school speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions and presentations using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion including speaking clearly and to the point, pausing in appropriate places for others to respond, asking pertinent questions and linking students’ own responses to the contributions of others choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer a point of view and to persuade others experimenting with voice effects in formal presentations such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, recognising the effects these have on audience understanding
	NSW Outcome EN3-1A: A student communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
700	Content Description	Elaboration
	Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700)	planning a report on a topic, sequencing ideas logically and providing supporting detail, including graphics, sound and visuals to enhance audience engagement and understanding
	NSW Outcome EN3-1A: A student communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
701	Content Description	Elaboration
	Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1701)	explaining how the features of a text advocating community action, for example action on a local area preservation issue, are used to meet the purpose of the text
	NSW Outcome EN3-5B: A student discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
702	Content Description	Elaboration
	Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning (ACELY1702)	bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks selecting and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies to access material on less familiar topics, skimming and scanning to check the pertinence of particular information to students’ topic and task reading a wide range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for pleasure and to find and use information
	NSW Outcome EN3-3A: A student uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
703	Content Description	Elaboration
	Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)	using research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising information, evaluating its relative value, and the accuracy and currency of print and digital sources and summarising information from several sources
	NSW Outcome EN3-3A: A student uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
704	Content Description	Elaboration
	Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)	using research from print and digital resources to gather and organise information for writing selecting an appropriate text structure for the writing purpose and sequencing content according to that text structure, introducing the topic, and grouping related information in well-sequenced paragraphs with a concluding statement using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to purpose and context using paragraphs to present and sequence a text using appropriate grammatical features, including more complex sentences and relevant verb tense, pronoun reference, adverb and noun groups/phrases for effective descriptions
	NSW Outcome EN3-2A: A student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
705	Content Description	Elaboration
	Reread and edit student's own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features (ACELY1705)	editing for flow and sense, organisation of ideas and choice of language, revising and trying new approaches if an element is not having the desired impact
	NSW Outcome EN3-2A: A student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
706	Content Description	Elaboration
	Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic (ACELY1706)	using handwriting with increasing fluency and legibility appropriate to a wide range of writing purposes
	NSW Outcome EN3-2A: A student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014
707	Content Description	Elaboration
	Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1707)	writing letters in print and by email, composing with increasing fluency, accuracy and legibility and demonstrating understanding of what the audience may want to hear
	NSW Outcome EN3-2A: A student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
	Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on 18 February 2014