Learning Experience 4:

Lesson Title: Organisation of Texts Duration: 120Minutes

Learning
Objectives
Australian Content Descriptors: QCAA Literacy Indicators

Year 5 English
Language
Language variation and change
Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings
of words have histories and change over time (ACELA1500)

Text structure and organisation
Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic
as well as the degree of formality (ACELA1504)
Understand how the grammatical category of possessives
is signaled through apostrophes and how to use
apostrophes with common and proper nouns (ACELA1506)
Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters,
headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for
online texts and according to chronology or topic can be
used to predict content and assist navigation (ACELA1797)
Literature
Literature and context
Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or
information about particular social, cultural and historical
contexts (ACELT1608)

VR5
i. View, read, navigates and selects
texts for specific personal, social i
and learning purposes
ii. View and read written, visual
and multimodal learning area texts
i that: connect relationships
between ideas and concepts within
and between texts
v. Identify and describe words and
word groups that represent ideas
and relationships, including main
and subordinate clauses within
sentences
WC5
i. Identify the purpose, content,
context, text structure and writer
reader relationships when writing
and creating learning area texts
x. Select learning area vocabulary
that:
clarifies meaning
has different meanings in
different contexts

Classroom
Organisation
Whole class and individual work and group work



Learning
Experiences
1. Teacher to revisit text structure of the The
Voyage of the Endeavour as discovered from
previous lesson
2. Teacher to distribute packs of photo copied pages
from text
3. Text is to be cut up into separate parts
4. Teacher to lead discussion in text structure and
organisation (ie. capital letters, sentence
structure and paragraphs)
5. Teacher to re affirm discovered knowledge on
non-fiction structure and layout
6. With lead discussion on chapters, headings and
subheadings, students are then lead to individual
work of place their cut outs into the correct order
7. Once each student has indicated they are
finished, students with the same pages of book
are placed together:
8. Groups are given the following worksheet
(RESOURCE 3) and are required to identify
aspects of the details within the given text
Teacher Resources


Assessment: Teacher to keep work sheets for next class