English Unit: Investigating Images
This unit plan is a comprehensive resource for teaching images in texts in your Year 1 classroom. Students will learn how different types of images compliment the features of fiction and non-fiction texts. The unit includes a presentation, games, worksheets, classroom display, quiz and assessment task. The detailed and engaging unit plan requires minimal preparation time and is designed to be progressive and engaging for your class.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to recognise that texts have different features and purposes, e.g. recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain.
- We are learning to identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised.
- We are learning to understand the different purposes of images in various text types and how they contribute to meaning.
- We are learning to understand the different purposes of images in different text types and how they contribute to meaning.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LA03
9
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
AC9E1LA08
9
Compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
ACELA1447
8.4
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
ACELA1453
8.4
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning
EN1-7B
old
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
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-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
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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