This model text is a historical recount about expedition to successfully cross the Blue Mountains. 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 read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They explain how ideas are developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts. Students explain how characteristic text structures support the purpose of texts. They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text.

Students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts. They use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. Students use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell 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

AC9E5LA03

AC9E5LA04

 
AC9E5LA05

AC9E5LA06

AC9E5LA08

AC9E5LA09

 
AC9E5LY05

 
AC9E6LY06

 
AC9E5LY09

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #BlueMountains #explorers

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This model text is a biography focusing on Robert William Rede. 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

Version 8.4

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

Version 9

AC9HS5K03

The role of a significant individual or group, including First Nations Australians and those who migrated to Australia, in the development of events in an Australian colony

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #gold #Australia #Eureka #Eureka Stockade #rebellion #HASS #Grade 5 #ACHASSK110 #AC9HS5K03...

This model text is a biography focusing on Sir Charles Hotham. 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

Version 8.4

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

Version 9

AC9HS5K03

The role of a significant individual or group, including First Nations Australians and those who migrated to Australia, in the development of events in an Australian colony

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #gold #Australia #Eureka #Eureka Stockade #rebellion #HASS #Grade 5 #ACHASSK110 #AC9HS5K03

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This model text is a newspaper report about the coronation King Charles III. 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) and 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:

AC 9

HASS – Civics and Citizenship:

AC9HS5K01

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

The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony (ACHASSK110 )

Level of this pack:
Age: 11-12
Australia: Grade 5

#Grade 5 #Primary #Year 5 #coronation #monarchy #kingcharles...

This model text is a biography about King Charles III in celebration of his coronation! It has been written to meet the Year 5 expected standard and comes with a handy annotated version detailing the text-type specific features (red), grammar (green), punctuation (purple) and spelling (blue) teaching opportunities should you wish to use this text with your learners

National Curriculum Objectives
Writing: English Y5/6 Pupils should be taught to organise paragraphs around a theme.
Pupils should be taught to use simple organisational devices in writing.

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
exploring the motivations and actions of an individual or group that shaped a colony

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #HASS #Grade 5 #ACHASSK108 #ACHASSK110 #King Charles #King

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This model text is a diary entry written from the perspective of a convict. 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

AC9HS5K02- the impact of the development of British colonies in Australia on the lives of First Nations Australians, the colonists and convicts, and on the natural environment

• investigating colonial life to discover what life was like at that time for different inhabitants (for example, a First Nations Australian community and a European community, a convict and a free settler, a "squatter", a sugarcane farmer and an indentured labourer) the challenges they faced and responses they made in terms of clothing, access to food and water, leisure, paid and unpaid work, use of technologies, shopping or trade, language, housing and children’s lives

Level of this pack:
Age: 10-11
Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5
#Year 5 #primary #convict #Australia #settlement #dailylife #AC9HS5K02...

This model text is a newspaper report about bushfires in Australia. 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- Geography

ACHASSK114- The impact of bushfires or floods on environments and communities, and how people can respond

explaining the impacts of fire on Australian vegetation and the significance of fire damage on communities

AC9HS5K05- The management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #bushfires #fire #Australia #environment #weather #ACHASSK114 #AC9HS5K05...

This model text is a newspaper article about the devastating flood in Lismore. 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- Geography

ACHASSK114- The impact of bushfires or floods on environments and communities, and how people can respond

AC9HS5K05- the management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #floods #community #environment #weather #HASS #Grade 5 #ACHASSK114 #AC9HS5K05...

This model text is an information report about Japanese people migrating to Broome. 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) and spelling (blue) teaching opportunities should you wish to use this text with your learners.

Australian Curriculum

Year 5 Achievement Standards

Students understand how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis. They show how specific details can be used to support a point of view. They explain how their choices of language features and images are used.

Students create detailed texts elaborating on key ideas for a range of purposes and audiences. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, using a variety of strategies for effect. They demonstrate an understanding of grammar, and make considered vocabulary choices to enhance cohesion and structure in their writing. They use accurate spelling and punctuation for clarity and make and explain editorial choices based on criteria.

Cross Curriculum Links:

HASS – History: ACHASSK109

The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony

Investigating the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony (for example, Germans in South Australia, Japanese in Broome, Afghan cameleers in the Northern Territory, Chinese at Palmer River, Pacific Islanders in the Torres Strait)

Level of this pack:
Age: 10-11
Australia: Grade 5

#Grade 5 #Primary #Year 5 #migration #japanese #broome #ACHASSK109

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This model text is a letter written from the perspective of a free settler in Australia. 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

investigating colonial life to discover what life was like at that time for different inhabitants

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #freesettler #Australia #colony #farmer #migration #HASS #grade 5 #ACHASSK107...