This model text is a set of instructions on how to make a fire. It has been written to meet the Year 3 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 3 Achievement Standards

Students read, view and comprehend texts, recognising their purpose and audience. They identify literal meaning and explain inferred meaning. Students describe how stories are developed through characters and/or events. They describe how texts are structured and presented. Students describe the language features of texts including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices and how visual features extend meaning. They read fluently, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge to read multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns.

Students create written and/or multimodal texts including stories to inform, narrate, explain or argue for audience, relating ideas including relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. Students use text structures including paragraphs, and language features including compound sentence, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features. They write texts using letters that are accurately formed and consistent in size. Students spell multisyllabic words using phonic and morphemic knowledge, and high-frequency words.

This model text is a set of instructions on how to make a fire. It has been written to meet the Year 3 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.

Cross Curriculum Links:

Science

AC9S3U03- identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another

Level of this pack:

Age: 9/10

Australia: Year 3 / Grade 3

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