This model text is a repetitive narrative based on three prehistoric animals. 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.   English Content Descriptors:  

Text structure and organisation Language for expressing and developing ideas Examining Literature Creating Literature Analysing, interpreting and evaluating Phonic and word knowledge  

AC9E3LA03   AC9E3LA04   AC9E3LA07   AC9ELA08   AC9E3LA10   AC9E3LA11   AC9E3LE03   AC9E3LE04       AC9E3LE05   AC9E3LY05       AC9ELY09   AC9ELY10    

      Level of this pack: Age: 9/10 Australia: Year 3 / Grade 3 #Year 3 #primary #narrative #imaginative text...