Stage 2 Year A Creating Written Texts Teaching Bundle Unit 8 - Component A
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Creating Written Texts 5 Week Teaching Bundle
Designed to complement the NSW English Sample Unit of Work - Stage 2 Year A Unit 8 Theme, this comprehensive teaching bundle provides everything you need to deliver five full weeks of engaging, curriculum-aligned English lessons.
Mentor Texts:
- Kicking Goals with Goodesy and Magic by Anita Heiss, Michael O’Loughlin, Adam Goodes
- Diary of an AFL Legend by Shamini Flint
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a growing bundle. Right now the following is available:
- Week 1 - 4 Teaching slides
- Complete unit of work - weekly view and lesson-by-lesson
- Complete workbook
- NSW Outcomes and Australian Curriculum V9 Outcomes
Still to come - Week 5 teaching slides
Curriculum Alignment
This resource directly aligns with:
- NSW English Sample Units of Work (Department of Education)
- Stage 2 Spelling Instructional Sequence
- NSW English Syllabus
- Australian Curriculum V9
Please note: This is for CREATING WRITTEN TEXTS ONLY.
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NSW Outcomes:
- Maintain appropriate, consistent past, present or future tense across a text (CrT8, CrA4)
- Use coordinating conjunctions in compound sentences to compare and contrast, or for addition (CrA4)
- Use subordinating conjunctions in complex sentences to signal sequence, reason or cause and effect (CrA6)
- Create cause-and-effect statements (CrT1)
- Use exclamatory sentences to emphasise a point or express a strong emotion (CrA4)
- Use interrogative sentences to ask a direct question, or for rhetorical effect to engage the reader with a viewpoint (CrA4)
- Use capital letters to indicate the beginning of a sentence, proper nouns, headings and subheadings, to indicate the beginning of a poetry line, for emphasis, and when using acronyms (PuN5)
- Use apostrophes for contractions, and to show singular and plural possession (PuN4, PuN5, SpG9)
This resource isn’t just for NSW teachers - it’s fully aligned with the Australian Curriculum Version 9 too! The bundle also includes a complete unit of work with outcomes matched to the Australian Curriculum.
Australian Curriculum Outcomes:
AC9E3LA11 understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession
AC9E3LE05 create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
AC9E4LA04 identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas
AC9E4LA06 understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality
AC9E4LA07 investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used
AC9E4LA09 understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence
AC9E4LA12 understand that punctuation signals dialogue through quotation marks and that dialogue follows conventions for the use of capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation
AC9E4LE05 create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
AC9E4LY06 plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
- learn how time is represented through the tense of a verb; for example, “She arrived.” “She is arriving.” and adverbials of time; for example, “She arrived yesterday.” “She is arriving in the morning.”
- learn that tenses for some verbs are formed by changing the word
use apostrophes to create contractions - use apostrophes to show singular possession; for example, “my friend’s book” and “the princess’s shoe”
- use apostrophes to show plural possession
- draw on literary texts read, viewed and listened to for inspiration and ideas to create texts
- adapt texts read, viewed and listened to by changing the setting or revising an ending
- discuss characters encountered in literary texts and sharing ideas about how those characters may be a model for their own writing
- recognise how authors use text connectives to create links between sentences; for example, “however”, “therefore”, “nevertheless” and “in addition”
- create richer, more specific sentences by including information about place, time, manner, cause or condition in a dependent clause
- investigate examples of quoted (direct) speech and reported (indirect) speech and why they have been used in different contexts
- understand the tense that types of texts are commonly written in; for example, informative texts are usually written in present tense
- identify the tense in texts they read
- identify the use of quotation marks, capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation to signal dialogue in texts
- use punctuated dialogue in own writing
- create texts using a range of sentence types, including dialogue and literary devices
- collaborate with a peer to edit literary texts by sharing feedback about choices made to develop storylines, characters and settings
- use grammatical features including different types of verb groups, noun groups and adverb groups/phrases for effective descriptions and details according to purpose
- revise written texts to improve the selection of words used to connect ideas and improve the cohesion of the text
- use topic-specific, precise and varied vocabulary
- select text structure and planning how to group ideas into paragraphs to sequence content
Why Teachers Love It
- Load-and-go: Everything is ready to teach with minimal prep.
- Engaging: Activities include interactive slides, digital games, joint construction, and open-ended writing tasks.
- Comprehensive: Covers Vocabulary in depth with built-in assessment and reflection.
- Flexible: Open-ended activities allow you to adapt to your class context.
Stay tuned - this is just one of many comprehensive units available for the full school year!
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