Year 5 - Text Types: A Galactic Exploration
Year 5 - Text Types: A Galactic Exploration
AC9E5LA03 & AC9E5LA08
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You need to cover different text types with your class – narratives, information texts, and procedures to name a few. Wouldn’t it be great to cover some informal texts too – blog posts, emails, maybe even a debate? Oh, but how will you hold your students’ attention as you throw text after text at them? Also, where are you meant to find the perfect, age-appropriate examples without scouring through the Internet for hours and hours?
Well, we encountered this hurdle ourselves too, so don’t worry, we’ve done the work for you.
This exciting lesson empowers your students to become text type detectives. They will uncover the secrets of text structures, vocabulary, language features and the purpose of each text. Our lesson plan walks you through exactly how to implement the Jigsaw Method - the perfect way for your students to read and dissect one text, whilst learning from their peers about other texts. Best of all? You don’t have to hunt for different texts. We have written them all for you – the 6 texts are all age appropriate, encompass a mix of formal and informal styles, and revolve around a single theme (Space), showcasing how one topic can be expressed in diverse ways.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Lesson Plan (1 A4 page, easy to hold in one hand).
- Prompt Card to ignite student curiosity.
- Low floor, high ceiling Student Template for easy differentiation (with answers, phew!)
- 6 x engaging Text Type Examples for students to analyse.
DETAILS
DETAILS
Year Level: 5
KLA & Sub-strand: English – Language (text types)
Prior Knowledge: Language features and text structures
File Format: ZIP file – PDFs.
CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT
CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT
Content Descriptors:
- AC9E5LA03 (describe how spoken, written, and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts)
- AC9E5LA08 (understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words)
Achievement Standards:
- By the end of Year 5, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.
- Students use different text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
- Students use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
- Students explain how ideas are developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts.
- Students explain how characteristic text structures support the purpose of texts.
- Students explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text.
- Students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts. Students use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas.
- Students use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.
- Students read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.
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