English: Year 3 – Curriculum resources

Developed in partnership with Ochre Education, these lesson resources support the use of effective, evidence-based practices and address the learning expected in the Australian curriculum. 

Overview

Unit 1: Building houses 

1. To learn about floods and buildings
2. To understand the features of a persuasive text
3. To plan a persuasive piece
4. To develop an understanding of persuasive techniques
5. To write a persuasive piece

Unit 2: Angler fish 

1. To identify the features of a information text
2. To explore simple and compound sentences
3. To investigate suffixes: Past and present tense
4. To develop and generate subject-specific vocabulary
5. To learn about the Anglerfish, their appearance, and their diet
6. To write the opening paragraph of a information text
7. To write the appearance and diet paragraphs of a information text
8. To revise our understanding of simple and compound sentences
9. To learn about the Anglerfish's habitat and write the habitat paragraph of an information text
10. To write the closing paragraph of a information text

Unit 3: Flood - Jackie French

1. Learning about floods
2. Flood: the story
3. Describe a setting
4. The Structure of a narrative
5. Planning a narrative
6. Planning the opening
7. Writing the opening
8. Planning the events
9. Writing the events
10. Writing the ending

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