English Year 6 Literacy Creating Texts

Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic-specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features

Code AC9E6LY07

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  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    English Unit: Multimodal Texts

    In this unit, students learn to recognise, and interpret multimodal texts while making one of their own.

  • Unit Plan Year: 5 6

    English Unit: Readers' Theatre

    This unit is designed to get students to plan, rehearse and deliver readers’ theatre presentations to an audience.

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Creating a Multimedia Text - Presentation

    In this presentation, students look at the evolution of texts, including the introduction of multimedia. They then work through a series of...

  • Presentation Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - Presentation

    This presentation introduces students to readers’ theatre, and the steps that are involved in making a successful readers’ theatre performan...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Biography - Presentation

    This presentation introduces students to biographies, and gets them set up for the biography unit for year 6. This unit was developed to hel...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Glow and Grow - Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants

    These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their symbolic storytelling, film analysis, or visual comparison in the Leila and...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Creating Clarity

    This comprehensive editing toolkit supports Years 3-6 students in polishing their symbolic writing and analytical responses. Whether student...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Symbols That Speak - Toolkit

    This flexible task sheet supports students in Years 3-6 to create a visual comparison of symbolism in Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants. S...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle

    This five-week persuasive writing unit explores Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle, guiding students through the analysis of...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery Answers

    The Yahoo Creek Suggested Answers booklet provides model responses for all key activities across the persuasive writing unit. It includes sa...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Echoes of the Past

    This reflection-based worksheet helps students explore how arguments shape our understanding of historical narratives. Using real quotes fro...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Glow and Grow: Yahoo Creek

    These reflection worksheets support students in evaluating their persuasive writing or presentation following a summative assessment based o...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek - Grading Rubric

    These two 5-point grading rubrics are designed to assess persuasive writing for Years 3–6. The Years 3–4 rubric focuses on structure, opinio...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Final Edits That Matter

    This worksheet set supports students in the final editing phase of their persuasive writing. Focusing on logic (does the reasoning make sens...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Sharpen Your Argument

    This resource builds advanced editing skills in persuasive writing. The editing checklist supports Years 3–6 students to review their drafts...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Plan, Prove, Publish

    Designed for Years 5–6, this resource guides students through the full persuasive writing process, from selecting a topic to publishing a fi...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Edits That Matter

    This resource helps students identify and apply three key elements of effective persuasive writing: clarity (clear ideas and language), cohe...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    The PEEL Method

    This worksheet set helps Years 5–6 students write structured persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method—Point, Evidence, Explain and Link....

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    PEEL for Powerful Paragraph - Display

    This poster helps students structure persuasive paragraphs using the PEEL method: Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link. It supports clear,...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Build a Burger - Display

    This poster helps students build strong persuasive paragraphs using the hamburger method. Each layer of the burger shows what to include: op...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek - Teaching Notes

    The Teaching Notes page supports implementation of the Yahoo Creek Persuasive Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the weekly lesson sequ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle - Title Page

    The Yahoo Creek unit title page introduces students to the theme of persuasive writing through the lens of historical mystery and storytelli...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    My Year 12 Self - Future Letter Template

    This printable letter-writing template invites Year 6 students to reflect on their current interests, goals, and friendships, and write a he...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Pitch Perfect Playoffs

    This interactive speaking activity encourages middle and upper primary students to collaborate in delivering engaging group speeches. Topics...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Say it Like This

    This interactive board game helps students practise vocal variations, such as pitch, tone, and pace, while reading sentences aloud. It promo...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Meaningful Feedback

    This worksheet guides middle and upper primary students in rehearsing presentations with a peer and providing meaningful feedback on tone, p...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Multimedia Text Rubric

    This rubric was created to assess the presentation created by your students and allow you to easily break it down into separate assessable u...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Animal Infographics Resource

    These displays were created to be used as examples of infographics you and your students can use in class. They are a part of a larger unit...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Understanding Infographics

    This poster introduces your students to the components common in many infographics, as well as a brief explanation on why infographics are u...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Multimodal Texts - Student Reference Card

    This reference card helps reinforce their learning as a part of a larger unit for Year 5 where students learn to recognise and interpret mul...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Multimedia - Student Reference Card

    This reference card helps reinforce their learning as a part of a larger unit for Year 5 where students learn to recognise and interpret mul...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - Crash Landing in Oz

    This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by L. Frank Baum. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available on...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - Tiddalick

    This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption from a traditional Australian Dreamtime story. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts avai...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - The Elves and the Shoemaker

    This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text from the Grimms' Fairytales. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts a...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - Rikki-tikki-tavi

    This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Rudyard Kipling. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - Man From Snowy River

    This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Banjo Paterson. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available o...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - A Christmas Without

    This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Louisa May Alcott. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts availabl...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers' Theatre - Alice's Tea Party

    This readers’ theatre piece is an adaption of the original text by Lewis Carroll. There are many other readers’ theatre scripts available on...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers’ Theatre Rubric

    This rubric is an example of a rubric which could be used to assess your students’ readers’ theatre performances. It is designed to look at...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers Reflection

    In this worksheet, students reflect on the readers’ theatre performance they have just given. This is not only helpful for them to develop t...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Know Your Role

    This worksheet is made to help individual students prepare and analyse their part in a readers’ theatre piece. This resource is part of a...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Readers’ Theatre - Student Reference Card

    This student card gives your students a few readers’ theatre tips and tricks for them to reference while preparing a readers’ theatre presen...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Present a Person

    This worksheet is designed to further scaffold students in biography writing, by prompting their research of a person in preparation for sha...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

    Presentation Rubric

    Created as a resource request from one of our member teachers, this rubric and self-assessment is designed to be used for any student doing...

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