This model text is an information report about toucans. 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
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Creating texts

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E3LA03

AC9E3LA04

AC9E3LA05

 
AC9E3LA07

AC9ELA08

AC9ELA09

AC9E3LA10

AC9E3LA11

 
AC9E3LY05

 
AC9E3LY06

 
AC9ELY09

AC9ELY10

Cross Curriculum Links:

Science

AC9S3U01 compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals

Level of this pack:

Age: 9/10

Australia: Year 3 / Grade 3

#Year 3 #animals #livingthings #biologicalsciences

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