Australian Curriculum Literature & Research units for Years 5 & 6
Literature & Research units for the Primary Library
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Templates for planning with the Australian Curriculum during the Transition phase 2011-2012.
These templates combine elements of the Australian English Curriculum with the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) Thinking Processes, Personal Learning and Interpersonal Development Domains.
Australian Curriculum Units currently under construction (as of Jun 2011)
These units will be available for download late in Term 2 or during the Term 2 holidays after I have finished teaching them and (hopefully) ironed out the bugs.
Y5&6 Info Lit Odd years Semester 1 V1
Units being updated from existing VELS units (see below)
Asian Governments
Asian Governments project requirements and assessment
New Units
Extreme Holidays (Landscapes) – the kids really enjoyed this project!
- Y5&6 Landscapes (Aust Curriculum) Sem 1 Odd Years V1
- Assessment Rubric
- Landscapes (L4) research Qs
- research plan KWLH3
- Note taking sheet Master 2011
VELS Units (pre 2010)
NB These units are in various stages of development. I am not very interested in tidying things up for publication, so they are not exemplary units, but just the way they were when I last designed or edited them. (Every time I teach a unit, I change something.) Feel free to use them, but please acknowledge their authorship, and email me via the comments box below if you would like to share some of your resources in return.
VELS Level 4 Australian Literature
VELS Level 4-Australian History – C19th Settlement
BTW Many of these units have hyperlinks to my work program or worksheets I have made. I can’t be bothered uploading all of these…send me a comment with your request, and I’ll send it to you.
Personal Learning Journals
At the end of every library lesson, my students self-assess their behaviour. The statements are based on VELS indicators or from the learning focus in Personal Learning and Interpersonal Development domains. It is a quick and easy way to support students to reflect on how their behaviour affects their learning.
PS If you find any of these resources interesting and decide to download them, could you please leave a brief comment? This page generates lots of traffic, but without any feedback, I don’t know who the visitors to the site are, so I don’t know whether to bother adding more resources to it.
Years 5 & 6
Megan said
Your work is thorough and the comments regarding the length of time necessary to complete the unit on 19th settlment is very helpful. I would be very grateful for a copy of the worksheets.
Lisa Hill said
Thanks for the kind words, Megan, I’ll try to remember to email you the worksheets from work tomorrow – it’s a bit frantic on the last day of term but I’ll do my best.
Lisa:)
Raelene said
Thanks Lisa for all these resources and information. I have just started running a weekly one hour literature program for each class in the school and have struggled to find useful material. I feel like I am reinventing the wheel to plan a whole school program from scratch, so your work is very helpful. I have just ordered a new publication from Macmillan on the national literature curriculum but haven’t received it yet, so I hope that might help. If you know of any other published work, I’d be thrilled to hear about it. Many thanks.
Lisa Hill said
Hello Raelene, I don’t know of any useful primary library resources – for the National Curriuclum or anything else!
I haven’t got as much done this holidays as I had planned to, but I’ve read about half of the CBCA shortlisted books and will be putting up various worksheets to match the books as I make them throughout the term. Would you like me to send you copies of my work program each week this term while I’m doing OzLit for all classes?
Raelene said
That would be much appreciated thanks Lisa. Like you I am working my way through the shortlist. For book week and the One World Many Stories theme, I have been thinking about a multi age day where children rotate through the class rooms and each teacher presents a book set in another country. I’m thinking about giving passports where children gather a visa stamp in each room they visit. Maybe I’ll have a design competition to create the visa stamps which can be copied and distributed in each room on the day. Hopefully staff will utilise dance, games, food etc activities appropriate to that country to support the book. Just ideas at the moment that I need to firm up…
Lisa Hill said
That sounds lovely, Raelene, the kids will love the passport. I read Just a Dog yesterday – wow, what a powerful little book that is! I reviewed it on GoodReads http://tinyurl.com/689hxcl which is a handy place to jot down a few thoughts about the books and get ideas about themes etc from other reviewers. (You can friend me there as Lisa Hill if you want to, but you will have to answer a question to do it, easy if you visit the About Page on my bookblog).
Michael Nichols said
Can you tell me anything about VELS Australian Literature in terms of what books teachers are using? I am trying to make a link with early settlement in Australia in terms of botanical art for an exhibition coming up in September this year at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Lisa Hill said
Hello Michael,
Oh dear, I don’t think I’m the right person to help you with this… I’m a primary teacher-librarian and there’s very few of us around any more and nobody is coordinating what classroom teachers are doing in literature, alas. You could try this link, http://tsheko.wordpress.com/. Tania is a secondary teacher librarian and has a wide network. Good luck!
Lisa