This model text is a narrative about a pair of children who enter a haunted property during a storm. It has been written to meet the Year 4 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 4 Achievement Standards   Students read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They describe how ideas are developed including through characters and events, and how texts reflect contexts. Students describe the characteristic features of different text structures. They describe how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning. Students read fluently and accurately, integrating phonic, morphemic, grammatical and punctuation knowledge.   Students create written and/or multimodal texts including stories for purposes and audiences, where they develop ideas using details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They use paragraphs to organise and link ideas. Students use language features including complex sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features. They write texts using clearly formed letters with developing fluency. Students spell words including multisyllabic and multimorphemic words with irregular spelling patterns, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.   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  

AC9E4LA03   AC9E4LA04     AC9E4LA07   AC9E4LA08   AC9E4LA09   AC9E4LA12   AC9E4LE04   AC9E4LE05   AC9E4LY03   AC9E4LY05 AC9E4LY09   AC9E4LY010    

  Level of this pack: Age: 10/11 Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4 #Year 4 #narrative  ...