These detailed programs offer a 2-week unit that builds student skills. School staff exercise professional judgement when making decisions about the suitability of teaching and learning activites to meet the needs of their students.
Students will work towards becoming literate. They will practice their emerging skills, knowledge and understandings in all forms of communication.
Students will understand that narrative is a way of sharing and learning about life experiences.
K-6 template (DOCX 72 KB) to develop your own program of remote learning activities for students.
Students will understand the important concept of character in narrative as a driver of the action, a function in the plot, a way of engaging or positioning a reader or as a way of representing its thematic concerns
Connotation, imagery and symbol enrich a text by making words and images mean more than one thing. They invite students to consider the habitual in terms of the new and so are important to creative and critical thought. Figurative language has social consequences as it influences the ways we conceptualise people, information and ideas. Critical analysis brings to light these associations and strands of meaning.
Through the objectives of reading and viewing, writing and responding, speaking and listening, this sequence of lessons aims to introduce the concept of narrative, explore how conventions work in a range of texts to invite creative writing and responding.
Students will understand the important concept of character in narrative as a driver of the action, a function in the plot, a way of engaging or positioning a reader or as a way of representing its thematic concerns.
Connotation, imagery and symbol enrich a text by making words and images mean more than one thing. They invite students to consider the habitual in terms of the new and so are important to creative and critical thought. Figurative language has social consequences as it influences the ways we conceptualise people, information and ideas. Critical analysis brings to light these associations and strands of meaning.
Students understand that narrative is constructed for particular audiences and purposes and may be interpreted in various ways. Students learn that stories are usually made up of a sequence of events and can have messages and evoke feelings.
Students will understand the important concept of character in narrative as a driver of the action, a function in the plot, a way of engaging or positioning a reader or as a way of representing its thematic concerns
Connotation, imagery and symbol enrich a text by making words and images mean more than one thing. They invite students to consider the habitual in terms of the new and so are important to creative and critical thought. Figurative language has social consequences as it influences the ways we conceptualise people, information and ideas. Critical analysis brings to light these associations and strands of meaning.
Students will discuss the effect of text structure on a reader, and the author’s purpose in structuring a text a certain way. Students will experiment with structure and language choices in creating a narrative. They will use new vocabulary to enhance the quality of their own writing and speaking.
Students will understand the important concept of character in narrative as a driver of the action, a function in the plot, a way of engaging or positioning a reader or as a way of representing its thematic concerns.
Connotation, imagery and symbol enrich a text by making words and images mean more than one thing. They invite students to consider the habitual in terms of the new and so are important to creative and critical thought. Figurative language has social consequences as it influences the ways we conceptualise people, information and ideas. Critical analysis brings to light these associations and strands of meaning.
The two-week programs linked above all have related digital student resources and printable student workbooks that are located in our filterable resource library.
You can also find ideas and activities on our curated list of external digital resources.
Access K-6 distance education resources developed to support students that cannot access a physical school.
The Distance education network offers these documents to support teachers delivering off campus learning. They are not designed for all learning contexts and are not anticipated to address all syllabus outcomes.
While the resources support independent student study, they must be used in consultation with their subject teacher.
