Australian Curriculum units – progress at last!

Ok, it’s time to stop being a perfectionist!  I have finally got a template (more or less) the way I want it.  Go to Goodies to Share in the menu – and PLEASE! give me some feedback in Comments about what you like and what you would like improved.

Update: Australian Curriculum Literature Units

Hmm. After a frustrating correspondence with the ACARA website in which I suggested some busy-teacher-friendly improvements, I have given up expecting them to provide downloads in a usable form and have begun the long, slow, laborious task of formatting the English PDF document into Word.  Why on earth teachers can’t be provided with a document that could be cut and pasted into planning documents without this busy-work, I do not know…

So, it’s taking a lot longer than I’d hoped to get a unit of work ready to share….

Australian Curriculum: Literature units of work

Just an update so that readers of this blog know what I’m working on. (Let’s not reinvent any wheels! Let’s not duplicate each other’s work!)

This term I am updating my existing Term 1 literature units so that they include relevant elements of the new Australian Curriculum.

So the learning focuses include

• SLAV library skills
• VELS Thinking Processes; Interpersonal Development and Personal Learning
• Australian Curriculum English Literature  (and maybe also Language and Literacy)

Assessment includes

• SLAV library skills
• VELS Thinking Processes; Interpersonal Development and Personal Learning outcomes
• Australian Curriculum English Literature  (and maybe also Language and Literacy) elaborations (which is the silly word they have chosen for outcomes)

The units I am working on are

• Aesop’s Fables (Preps)
• Traditional Tales (fairy tales) (Years 1 & 2)
• Author Study: Hans Christian Andersen (Years 3 & 4)
• Traditional Tales (myths & legends) Years 5 & 6 – Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

Once I have tweaked the planning templates to my satisfaction you will be able to download them as well, but getting these right is what’s taking the time.   

I hope to have these four units – and the templates – available for download some time during the Easter holidays.