This model text is an information report about the History of the Olympics. 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 #Olympics #paralympics #history #ancientgames #moderngames...

This model text is an information report about the Paris 2024 Olympics. 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 #Olympics #paralympics #Paris #2024...

This timeline shows the significant events which led to the Eureka Stockade.

#Year 5 #gold #goldrush #miners #licence #Eureka #Eureka Stockade #rebellion...

This model text is an information report about grey whales. 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

Year 5

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

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #living things #environment #adaptation #whales #science #ACSSU043...

This model text is a classifying report about Australian desert creatures. 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
• describing and listing adaptations of living things suited for particular Australian environments

Version 9
AC9S5U01-examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats

• exploring features of plants and animals that enable them to survive in Australia's desert environments, such a bottle (boab) trees and the water holding frog

Level of this pack:
Age: 10-11
Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5
#Year 5 #primary #adaptations #desert #Australia #environment #survival #animals #livingthings #habitats #ACSSU043 #AC9S5U01...

This model text is an information report about grey whales, presented as an infographic. 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

Year 5

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

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #living things #environment #adaptation #whales #science #ACSSU043

 ...

This model text is an information report about The Irish Potato Famine. 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

Identifying the reasons why people migrated to Australia in the 1800s (for example, as convicts; assisted passengers; indentured labourers; people seeking a better life such as gold miners; and those dislocated by events such as the Industrial Revolution, the Irish Potato Famine and the Highland Clearances)

Level of this pack:
Age: 10-11
Australia: Grade 5
#Grade 5 #Primary #Year 5 #potatofamine #ACHASSK109

 ...

This model text is classifying report about the water holding frog. 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

describing and listing adaptations of living things suited for particular Australian environments

Version 9
AC9S5U01-examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats

exploring features of plants and animals that enable them to survive in Australia's desert environments, such a bottle (boab) trees and the water holding frog

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #adaptation #environment #survival # biological sciences #habitats #ACSSU043 #AC9S5U01...

This model text is a historical report about the Eureka Stockade and the development of democracy. 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 (for example, miners)
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 #gold #Australia #goldrush #Eureka #Eureka Stockade #rebellion #democracy #miners #HASS #Grade 5 #ACHASSK108 #ACHASSK110...

This model text is a historical report about the gold rush 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

 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

ACHASSK109

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

identifying the reasons why people migrated to Australia in the 1800s

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 (for example, miners)

Level of this pack:

Age: 10-11

Australia: Year 5 / Grade 5

#Year 5 #primary #gold #Australia #goldrush #discovery #mining #HASS #Grade 5 #ACHASSK108 #ACHASSK109 # ACHASSK110

 ...