English Year 6 Interacting with Others

Participate in formal and informal debates and plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis

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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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