FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT

TERM/WEEKS: 1,
Weeks 7-8

YEAR LEVEL: 4

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC:

ENGLISH Writing

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and
Cultures

WEEK/
LESSO
N

Week:
8
Lesson
:3

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS

Literacy;
Interpreting,
analysing and
evaluating;
Identify characteristic
features used in
imaginative,
informative and
persuasive texts to
meet the purpose of
the text (ACELY1690)
Literacy;
Creating texts;
Use a range of
software including
word processing
programs to construct,
edit and publish
written text, and
select, edit and place

Critical and creative

thinking

Ethical Behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

Explain how
adjectives can be
used to describe
different features
of people.
Create a mind
map using
Spiderscribe.
Create an
imaginative
version of
themselves using
Wild Self.
Identify
characteristics and
features of people
using adjectives.

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Checklist:
Could the
student identify
different
characteristics of
people? (physical
features,
personality etc)
Did the student
use
Spiderscribe to
create a mind
map?
Did the character
profile use
adjectives to
describe the
features and
characteristics of

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural
Understanding

Sustainability

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

Introduction:
Review the features of informative text from
previous lesson.
Discuss that we can also describe the
features/characteristics of people. Example
comparing features of people from Australia,
India and Asia. Also do comparison of people
from different lines of work, eg. Teacher and a
firefighter.
Demonstrate describing yourself and have
students describe each other.
Ask students to think about a person that they
would like to describe. It can be family,
celebrity, career person or friend.
Lesson:
Students using Spiderscribe will create a mind
map describing the person that they have

KEY
QUESTIONS

What is an
adjective?
Why would we
use them?
Can you describe
anything using
an adjective?
What adjectives
did you use to
describe your
real life person?
How did you
describe your
Wild Self?
How is an
imaginative text

RESOURC
ES

Laptops
Spiderscribe
website
Wild self
website
Word
program
Interactive
whiteboard

visual, print and audio

elements
(ACELY1697)

Write up a
character profile
using adjectives.

their Wild Self?

chosen.

Could the
students discuss
how imaginative
texts were
different?

Will include what they look like, how they act

and what their personality is. Must include the
use of adjectives.
Students will also create their Wild self using
the Wild self website.
Students will turn themselves into an imaginary
animal.
When completed students will create a
character profile using Word. Must include
picture of their Wild Self, character name,
features/characteristics and personality. Must
use adjectives.
Conclusion:
Selected students will share their character
profile to the class.
Compare the Spiderscribe to the Wild Self
profile.
Did the adjectives change when the character
wasnt real?
Discuss the features of imaginative text.

different?