English Unit: B Year - K-2- Narrative

English Unit: B Year - K-2- Narrative

This workbook is designed to support multi-age classrooms (Kindergarten, Year 1, and Year 2) in exploring narrative structure, language features, and storytelling techniques through the NSW English Year B units. Each section includes five high-quality, differentiated worksheets per book, ensuring students are appropriately challenged at their level and aligned with Australian Curriculum V9.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to make meaning.
  • We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, functional posture and pencil grip.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
  • We are learning to write words using unjoined lower case and upper case letters using functional pencil grip.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and begin to analyse texts by drawing on our knowledge.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as retelling, making inferences and finding key words to make meaning from multimodal texts.
  • We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, correct posture and pencil grip.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
  • We are learning to form all upper and lower-case letters correctly.
  • We are learning to write upper and lower-case unjoined letters and sentences legibly using correct pencil grip and posture.

Curriculum alignment

AC9EFLY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently AC9EFLY08 9 Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations AC9E1LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures AC9E1LY08 9 Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters AC9E2LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning AC9E2LY08 9 Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters ACELY1653 8.4 Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations ACELY1650 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently ACELY1673 8.4 Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters ACELY1670 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures ACELY1663 8.4 Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters ACELY1660 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
EN1-3A old Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies EN1-4A old Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies ENe-4A old Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies ENe-3A old Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts ENE-PHOKW-01 new Uses single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences and common digraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts EN1-HANDW-01 new Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts ENE-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults EN1-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose EN1-SPELL-01 new Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts ENE-PHOAW-01 new Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts ENE-PRINT-01 new Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print EN1-CWT-01 new Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure ENE-REFLU-01 new Reads decodable texts aloud with automaticity ENE-CWT-01 new Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences ENE-SPELL-01 new Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts ENE-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature read to them EN1-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions EN1-PHOKW-01 new Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts EN1-REFLU-01 new Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors ENE-RECOM-01 new Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect EN1-RECOM-01 new Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning EN1-VOCAB-01 new Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas ENE-HANDW-01 new Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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