Unit 1 – Narrative

Students will explore the textual concepts of narrative and characterisation. They will consider how the mentor text sets up expectations and then diverts from expectations to suit the author’s purpose and audience. Students will analyse the creation of characters and how characterisation can be used to drive the plot. They will write a narrative providing details about setting, characters, and actions.

3–6 multi-age Year B – Unit 1 Narrative (DOCX 2.4 MB)

Unit 2 – Argument and authority

Students will develop their understanding of argument and authority and genre through a deep text analysis. Students will learn that an author’s perspective is highlighted by the points of view that they present within a text, while also considering the credibility of sources of information. They will draft, revise, edit and publish a multimodal persuasive text that includes persuasive and rhetorical devices, arguing the existence or non-existence of an elusive creature people have reported to have encountered.

3–6 multi-age – Unit 2 – Argument and authority (DOCX 4 MB)

Unit 3 – Genre

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the textual concepts of genre and perspective and context. Students will apply their understanding of genre to analyse texts and identify their purpose, subject matter, form, structure and language choices. Students will experiment with creating a variety of texts using their understanding of structure and language choices to suit a text’s purpose.

3–6 multi-age Year B – Unit 3 Genre (DOCX 9.2 MB)

Unit 4 – Imagery, symbol and connotation

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the textual concepts of imagery, symbol and connotation and narrative. Students will explore how authors use imagery and symbols in literature and identify how figurative language can influence meaning. Poetry is also a focus for this unit. Students will deepen their understanding of imagery, symbol and connotation as they analyse language features in spoken texts and use figurative language to compose a poem that they will recite.

3–6 multi-age Year B – Unit 4 Imagery, symbol and connotation (DOCX 8.1 MB)

Unit 5 – Characterisation

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the textual concepts of ‘characterisation’ and ‘narrative’. They will explore how authors use narrative conventions such as dialogue and rhetorical questions to reveal characters’ appearance, actions, words or thoughts. Students will apply their understanding of characterisation, narrative structure and conventions to compose a narrative.

3–6 multi-age Year B – Unit 5 Characterisation (DOCX 947 KB)