This model text is an explanation of light, what it is and how we see. It has been written to meet the Year 5 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 5 Achievement Standards

Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:

Science

AC9S5U03 - identify sources of light, recognise that light travels in a straight path and describe how shadows are formed and light can be reflected and refracted

ACSSU080 - Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #Science #light #rainbow #physics #physicalscience

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This model text is a set of instructions on how to surviving an expedition in Antarctica. It has been written to meet the Year 5 Australian Curriculum HASS (Geography) 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 5 Achievement Standards

 Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:

HASS - Geography ACHASSK113

The environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of a place and the management of spaces within them.

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #survival #environments #Antarctica #Geography #expedition

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This model text is an explanation about how adaptation helps animals survive in the environment. It has been written to meet the Year 5 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 5 Achievement Standards 

Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:

Science

Version 8.4
ACSSU043- Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment

Version 9

AC9S5U01- Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #adaptation #adapt #science #animals #organisms #environment #structural #behavioural #physiological #Grade 5 #ACSSU043 #AC9S5U01

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This model text is an explanation about Victorian crime and punishment from 1837-1901. It has been written to meet the Year 5 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 5 Achievement Standards

Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:

HASS- History

ACHASSK106- Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800

AC9HS5K01- the economic, political and social causes of the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800

    investigating social causes of the establishment of different colonies in Australia, such as overcrowded cities, high crime rates and overflowing prisons

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #history #British colonies #crime #prison #convicts #Australia #ACHASSK106 #AC9HS5K01...

This model text is a set of instructions on how to make a decorative pot. It has been written to meet the Year 5 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 5 Achievement Standards

Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:

Visual Arts-

Version 8.4-
ACAVAM115- Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks

enhancing and practising their art making skills in using a range of materials and technologies

Version 9-
AC9AVA6C01- use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to plan and create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #visual art #instructions #creative #art #ACAVAM115 #AC9AVA6C01...

This model text is a set of instructions on how to pan for gold. It has been written to meet the Year 5 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 5 Achievement Standards

Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:

HASS- History

ACHASSK108

The impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony

investigating an event or development and explaining its economic, social and political impact on a colony

ACHASSK110

The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony

investigating the contribution or significance of an individual or group to the shaping of a colony in the 1800s

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #gold #Australia #goldrush #panning #diggers #prospectors #alluvial #HASS #grade 5 #ACHASSK108 #ACHASSK110

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This model text is a recipe (procedural text) on how to make damper. It has been written to meet the Year 5 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 5 Achievement Standards

Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:
HASS – History

ACHASSK107
The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #Australia #colonisation #damper #recipe # #traditionaldamper #HASS #grade 5 #ACHASSK107

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This model text is a set of instructions on how to mine surface gold. It has been written to meet the Year 5 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 5 Achievement Standards

Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources.

Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations which include multimodal elements for defined purposes. They contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar using a variety of sentence types. They select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation. They edit their work for cohesive structure and meaning.

Cross Curriculum links:
HASS- History

ACHASSK108
The impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony
• investigating an event or development and explaining its economic, social and political impact on a colony

ACHASSK110
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony
• investigating the contribution or significance of an individual or group to the shaping of a colony in the 1800s

Level of this pack:
Age: 10-11
Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5
#Year 5 #primary #gold #Australia #goldrush #panning #cradling #puddling #diggers #prospectors #alluvial #mining #HASS #grade 5 #ACHASSK108 #ACHASSK110...