Developed in partnership between AERO and Ochre Education, these lesson resources support the use of effective, evidence-based practices and address the learning expected in the Australian Curriculum. An exemplar unit plan provides guidance on the structure, sequence and decision-making made during the planning process.
This sequence of ten lessons guides students through the process of creating a non-chronological information text. The unit investigates the characteristics, habitat and diet of the deep-sea anglerfish.
Lesson 1 Anglerfish: Identify the features of an information text
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-1Students learn about information texts and identify their key features.
Lesson 2 Anglerfish: Explore simple and compound sentences
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-2Students revise their understanding of verbs and learn how to write simple and compound sentences.
Lesson 3 Anglerfish: Investigate suffixes – past and present tense
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-3Students investigate suffixes, past and present tense and set spelling words to learn.
Lesson 4 Anglerfish: Develop and generate subject-specific vocabulary
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-4Students learn to develop and generate subject-specific vocabulary to use in information texts about the anglerfish. We will learn definitions and practise using vocabulary in sentences.
Lesson 5 Anglerfish: Learn about the anglerfish, their appearance and behaviour
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-5Students will learn about Anglerfish, their appearance and their diet. They will read a text and make notes by identifying the key information.
Lesson 6 Anglerfish: Write an opening paragraph of an information text
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-6The lesson recaps the features of information texts and students will learn to write an opening paragraph.
Lesson 7 Anglerfish: Write the appearance and diet paragraphs of an information text
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-7Students write the two main descriptive paragraphs of an information text.
Lesson 8 Anglerfish: Revise simple and compound sentences
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-8Students revise their understanding of simple and compound sentences.
Lesson 9 Anglerfish: Write the habitat paragraph of an information text
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-9Students will learn about anglerfish and their habitat. They will read a text and make notes by identifying the key information.
Lesson 10 Anglerfish: Write the closing paragraph of an information text
www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/ochre-resources/year-3-english-unit-2-lesson-10Students will revise the features of an information text, recap our entire report so far, analyse the closing of an information text, and then they will write the closing paragraph of an information text.