Term 1 Week 10 2024:

• Stage 2, first year – Unit 3
  • Additional content points included
    • Creating written texts: use declarative sentences to provide facts or state a viewpoint
    • Creating written texts: use imperative sentences to advise, provide instructions, express a request or a command
    • Creating written texts: use exclamatory sentences to emphasise a point or express a strong emotion
• Stage 3, first year – Unit 3
  • Additional content points included
    • Creating written texts: make choices about verbs and verb groups to achieve precision and add detail
    • Creating written texts: experiment with the placement of adverbial clauses, to modify the meaning or to add detail to a verb or verb group
    • Creating written texts: use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, to indicate proper nouns, for headings and subheadings, to indicate the beginning of a poetry line, for emphasis, and when using acronyms
    • Creating written texts: use a comma to separate a subordinate clause or a phrase from the main clause, or to separate information within a sentence, or to separate items in a list
• Stage 3, second year – Unit 11
  • Additional learning points included
    • Creating written texts: maintain correct noun–pronoun referencing, subject-verb agreement and use temporal, conditional and causal connectives to build cohesive links across a text.

Term 1 Week 5 2024:

• Stage 2 scope and sequence
  • Content point added to Year 4 Term 2 (late)
    • Creating written texts: use adjectival clauses with noun groups to add information to subjects and objects
• Detailed example – Component A teaching and learning
  • Minor amendments to the organisation of 'Reading comprehension and vocabulary' content
• Stage 2 First year – Unit 1
  • Minor amendment to the Component A table.

Additional content points have been included in the following units, which can be found on the English 3–6 units webpage, to ensure learning is distributed across units. Due to the addition of content, some lessons and exemplars have required adjustments.

• Stage 2 first year – Unit 3
• Stage 2 second year – Unit 13 (Term 1 Week 10)
• Stage 3 first year – Unit 1 (Term 1 Week 10)
• Stage 3 first year – Unit 3
• Stage 3 first year – Unit 4
• Stage 3 second year – Unit 10
• Stage 3 second year – Unit 11
• Stage 3 first year – Unit 4
• 3–6 multi-age Year A – Unit 1
• 3–6 multi-age Year A – Unit 2

Recently released English 3–6 units

Download the resources from the English 3–6 units webpage.

Term 3, Week 5 2024

Stage 2:

• First year – Unit 8 – Theme and argument and authority
• Second year – Unit 16 – Theme and argument and authority

Stage 3:

Second year – Unit 15 – Narrative and imagery, symbol and connotation

3–6 multi-age:

• Year A – Unit 7 – Narrative and imagery, symbol and connotation
• Multi-age – Year B – Unit 7 – Perspective and context