This model text is an information report about the Paris 2024 Olympics. 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
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Creating texts

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA12

 
AC9E4LY05
AC9E4LY06
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY010

Level of this pack:

Age: 9-10

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4 #Olympics #paralympics #Paris #2024

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This model text is an information report on the History of the Olympics Games. 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

By the end of Year 4, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories. They share and extend ideas, opinions and information with audiences, using relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They use text structures to organise and link ideas. They use language features including subjective and objective language, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features and features of voice.

They 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. They describe the characteristic features of different text structures. They describe how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning. They read fluently and accurately, integrating phonic, morphemic, grammatical and punctuation knowledge.

They 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. They 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. They 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
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Creating texts

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

AC9E4LA04

AC9E4LA05

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA10

AC9E4LA12
 

 
AC9E4LY06

 
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY10

AC9E4LY11

Level of this pack:

Age: 9/10

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4...

This model text is an information report about the life and works of Frida Kahlo. 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
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Creating texts

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA12

 
AC9E4LY03

AC9E4LY05
AC9E4LY06
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY010

Cross Curriculum Links:

Visual Arts

AC9AVA4E01- explore where, why and how visual arts are created and/or presented across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Level of this pack:

Age: 10/11

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4 #visualarts #art #artist #FridaKahlo #self-portraits

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This model text is a narrative about a girl who decides to start a blog, but doesn’t consider the consequences. 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

 
AC9E4LA06

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

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This model text a set of instructions for how to build an eco-brick. 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
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Creating texts

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

AC9E4LA04

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA12

 
AC9E4LY03

AC9E4LY05
AC9E4LY06
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY010

Cross Curriculum Links:

Design and Technology

AC9TDE4K01- examine design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs

Cross Curriculum priority- Sustainability- Design

SD2- Creative and innovative design is integral to the identification of new ways of sustainable living.

Level of this pack:

Age: 10/11

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4 #primary #design #technology #environment #sustainability #reuse #ecowarrior

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This model text is an explanation of how the water cycle works. 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
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Creating texts

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

AC9E4LA04

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA11

AC9E4LA12

 
AC9E4LY03

AC9E4LY05
AC9E4LY06
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY010

Cross Curriculum Links:

Science

AC9S4U02- identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation

Level of this pack:

Age: 10/11

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4 #primary #science #watercycle #earthandspace...

This model text is a third person narrative based on ‘Voices in the Park’ by Anthony Browne. 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

AC9E4LA06

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

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This model text is a quest narrative set in a scary swamp. 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
Creating literature
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA07

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA12

 
AC9E4LE05

 
AC9E4LY03

AC9E4LY05
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY010

Level of this pack:

Age: 10/11

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4 #narrative #quest

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

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA12

 
AC9E4LY03

AC9E4LY05
AC9E4LY06
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY010

Cross Curriculum Links:

Visual Arts

AC9AVA4E01- explore where, why and how visual arts are created and/or presented across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Level of this pack:

Age: 10/11

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4 #visualarts #art #artist #Vincent van Gogh

 ...

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

 
Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LA03

 
AC9E4LA06

AC9E4LA08

AC9E4LA09

AC9E4LA12

 
AC9E4LY03

AC9E4LY05
AC9E4LY06
AC9E4LY09

AC9E4LY010

Cross Curriculum Links:

HASS- Geography

AC9HS6K04- the geographical diversity and location of places in the Asia region, and its location in relation to Australia

 Level of this pack:

Age: 10/11

Australia: Year 4 / Grade 4

#Year 4 #geography #HASS #Asia #Australia

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