This model text is an abridged retelling of ‘The Wild Swans’ by Hans Christian Andersen. It has been written to meet the Year 6 Australian Curriculum English Learning Area and comes with a handy annotated version detailing the text-type specific features (red), grammar (green), punctuation (purple), spelling (blue) teaching opportunities should you wish to use this text with your learners.

Australian Curriculum

Year 6 Achievement Standards

Students read, view and comprehend different texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They identify similarities and differences in how ideas are presented and developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts. Students identify how texts have similar and different text structures to reflect purpose. They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features influence audiences.

Students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing, explaining and elaborating on relevant ideas from topics or texts. They use text structures and vary paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. Students use and vary language features including sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.

Level of this pack:
Age: 11-12
Australia: Grade 6

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