Australian Curriculum 9.0 Year 1 Writing Unit Personal Recount

Help your students understand the basic features of a personal recount with this unit plan and activity bundle. Bring your writing lessons to life as the unit plan walks you through everything you need to thoroughly cover the (AC9E1LA03, AC9E1LA07 , AC9E1LY06, AC9E1LY08) element of the Australian Year 1 English curriculum (version 9.0). Fun for students, easy for you to implement and an irresistible way to help budding authors write a meaningful personal recount!

Bring the fun back into learning about personal recounts as you guide your students through the following Australian Curriculum (version 9.0) Year 1 English content descriptors:
- Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain AC9E1LA03

- Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) AC9E1LA07

- Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words AC9E1LY06

- Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters AC9E1LY08

The content covered in this unit includes:

- What is a recount?

- Zooming in, Zooming out

- Text structure

- Languague features - transition words, sequential order, effective descriptions, vivid details, dialogue and feelings

- Assessment: Personal recount written piece (first modelled as a whole class and then independent writing based on structure taught in class)

Your purchase includes:
- Unit Plan - this unit follows a scaffolded literacy approach where by rich texts as used to model writing skills. Some internet links are provided in some lessons to support the lesson content. In particular, links to the suggested literature (being read out loud) in the unit have been included, in case you don't have access to a hard copy of the book. Internet connection will be required for these lessons.

- Assessment Rubric

- Activity Bundle - this activity bundle includes a variety of activities including activity sheets, hands-on activities, posters and a suggested assessment activity.

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Disclaimer:

This unit plan is a guide only. Teachers should use discretion when implementing. some questions have been provided to help guide students thinking but more specific questions should be added to develop conversation and deeper learning. Students should be encouraged to ask questions themselves as well.

Please note: internet and YouTube access are required to follow the unit plan.

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