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Updated resources

In response to valuable feedback from schools, we've updated some of our resources for English 3–6 to ensure materials are current, relevant, and effectively supporting teaching practices.

There have been changes to the content points based on the distributed learning model to strengthen student understanding throughout the year.

Term 1 Week 10 2024:

• Stage 2, First year – Unit 3
  • additional content points included
    • Creating wirtten texts: use declarative sentences to provide facts or state a viewpoint
    • Creating written texts: use imperative sentences to advise, provide instructions, express a request or a command
    • Creating wirtten texts: use exclamatory sentences to emphasise a point or express a strong emotion
• Stage 3, First year – Unit 3
  • additional content points included
    • Creating written texts: make choices about verbs and verb groups to achieve precision and add detail
    • Creating written texts: experiment with the placement of adverbial clauses, to modify the meaning or to add detail to a verb or verb group
    • Creating written texts: use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, to indicate proper nouns, for headings and subheadings, to indicate the beginning of a poetry line, for emphasis, and when using acronyms
    • Creating written texts: use a comma to separate a subordinate clause or a phrase from the main clause, or to separate information within a sentence, or to separate items in a list
• Stage 3, Second year – Unit 11
  • additonal learning points included
    • Creating written texts: maintain correct noun–pronoun referencing, subject–verb agreement and use temporal, conditional and causal connectives to build cohesive links across a text.

Term 1 Week 5 2024:

• Stage 2 scope and sequence
  • content point added to Year 4 Term 2 (late)
    • Creating written texts: use adjectival clauses with noun groups to add information to subjects and objects
• Detailed example – Component A teaching and learning
  • minor amendments to the organisation of 'Reading comprehension and vocabulary' content
• Stage 2 First year – Unit 1
  • minor amendment to the Component A table.

Additional content points have been included in the following units to ensure learning is distributed across units. Due to the addition of content, some lessons and exemplars have required adjustments.

• Stage 2 First year – Unit 3
• Stage 2 Second year – Unit 13 (Term 1 Week 10)
• Stage 3 First year – Unit 1 (Term 1 Week 10)
• Stage 3 First year – Unit 3
• Stage 3 First year – Unit 4
• Stage 3 Second year – Unit 10
• Stage 3 Second year – Unit 11
• Stage 3 First year – Unit 4
• 3–6 multi-age Year A – Unit 1
• 3–6 multi-age Year A – Unit 2

3–6 units

Supporting texts

• Term 4 Week 10 2023
  • Stage 2 – Mentor and supporting text list
  • 3–6 multi-age – Mentor and supporting text list.
• Term 4 Week 4 2023
  • Stage 2 – Detailed example of Component A

Other resources

The following resources can be downloaded from Other English K–6 resources.