YEAR 4 HISTORICAL RECOUNT AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM task cards

Perfect to accompany your Integrated Year 4 Australian Curriculum History & English unit. Great for use in literacy rotations and as a fast finisher activity. These task cards are best completed in an English or writing book due to the amount of writing space required for a some of the questions.

Contains 12 task cards!

• Practice identifying language features of historical recounts such as text connectives and past tense verbs.

• Read a selection of historical recounts and identify text structures within them.

• First Fleet stimulus images from the journal of first lieutenant William Bradley to encourage descriptive writing.

• Writing activities that provide key descriptive vocabulary to utilise.

• Print multiple task cards per page (e, k & l) for use with pencil/highlighter and paper.

• Partner & group discussion texts and questions.

• Answer key/cards

✎Please note I am an Australian seller and unless otherwise stated the product uses Australian English. This should not affect the use of this product in other countries. ✎

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Australian Curriculum Links:

Year 4

English v 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)

Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)

Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493)

Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA1498)

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694)

English v 9.0

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts (AC9E4LY05)

Identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas (AC9E4LA04)

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation (AC9E4LY06)

History v 8.4

Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival (ACHASSK085)

History v 9.0

The causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788 (AC9HS4K02)

Year 5

English v 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)

Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea (ACELA1508)

Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1701)

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)

English v 9.0

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas (AC9E5LY05)

Understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea (AC9E5LA06)

Understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words (AC9E5LA08)

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06)

History v 8.4

The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed (ACHASSK107)

History v 9.0

The impact of the development of British colonies in Australia on the lives of First Nations Australians, the colonists and convicts, and on the natural environment (AC9HS5K02)

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