ENGLISH

This semester in English we are learning about spelling patterns and conventions, persuasion in advertising, biographical/ historical recounts and appreciating poetry. 

Spell-It

Learning Intentions:

• We are learning about spelling patterns and conventions. 

Spell-it is a flexible spelling program which supports teachers in planning and implementing spelling instructions based on assessment of students’ current knowledge. Spell-it addresses the rules, conventions, structure and logic of the English language, while providing explicit and structured approaches to teaching spelling within a whole-class or small group approach. 

Persuasion in Advertising

Learning Intentions:

• We are learning how advertisements use persuasive devices and language features to influence an audience.

In this unit, students will:

• understand that advertisements are persuasive texts with a purpose of communicating ideas and information that influence a target audience
• identify persuasive devices and language features, visual language choices and sound effects in persuasive texts
• use specialist vocabulary to explain the effects of visual language choices in different types of advertisements
• use devices and language features, and make visual language choices to create a persuasive advertisement

Achievement Standards:

Students will use language features, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text.

Interpreting how literary text create a sense of time and place

Learning Intentions:

• We are learning to write a biographical recount.
• We are learning to write a historical recount.

In this unit students will:

• understand how text and language features evoke a sense of time and place
• use complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
• make and explain editing choices
• use evaluative, objective and subjective language
• be able to identify and use vocabulary choices, including evaluative language to express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
• understand and be able to experiment with the language features and text structures that authors use to evoke a sense of time and place
• create a biographical recount 
• create a historical recount 

Achievement Standards: 

Students will create written texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing, explaining and elaborating on relevant ideas from topics or texts.  They will read, view and comprehend different texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They use text structures and vary paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. They use and vary language features including sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.

Appreciating Poetry

Learning Intentions:

• We are learning about poetry. 

In this unit, students will:

• understand how text structures, language features and poetic devices work together to create effects in poetry
• understand how a poem can provide information about social, cultural and historical contexts
• understand that poems can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses

Achievement Standards: 

Students will interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts. For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop, explain and elaborate on ideas from topics or texts. They use and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They use and vary language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.