English Unit: Retell Writing
This Retell Writing Unit was thoughtfully designed for young learners. Dive into engaging lessons that introduce the core elements of retelling: characters, setting, problem, and solution. Encourage creativity through hands-on activities and shared writing templates. Short story passages with clear structures help students identify and retell key elements. This holistic unit enhances reading comprehension and nurtures writing skills, empowering students to excel in storytelling.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to create and edit short written texts to record and report ideas and events using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling of CVC words.
- We are learning to recognise characteristics of different types of texts, e.g. traditional beginnings and endings of fairy tales and rhyme in poetry.
- We are learning to identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text.
- We are learning to edit texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops, for ourselves and others.
- We are learning to construct texts using software including word processing programs, e.g. MS Word.
- We are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to explore, record and report ideas using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLE03
9
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
AC9EFLY06
9
Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly
ACELT1785
8.4
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry
ACELT1578
8.4
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
ACELY1652
8.4
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
ACELY1654
8.4
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
ACELY1651
8.4
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
ENe-3A
old
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
ENe-8B
old
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
ENe-10C
old
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
ENe-2A
old
Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message
ENE-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature read to them
ENE-HANDW-01
new
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
ENE-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
ENE-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
ENE-CWT-01
new
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
VCELT149
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
VCELT150
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
VCELY161
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
VCELY160
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
VCELY163
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.