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Formal Summative assessment - Assess the unit of work based on the final submission of the informative report (Kakadu National Park). Moderate with year 2 teaching partners.

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The final assessment will be differentiated for students working below the level of their peers. The assessment criteria will take elaborations from year level one to meet the individual learning needs of those students.

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Weekly the day after the authors' circle. Students will practice editing and changing their writing from the feedback that the teacher and peers have provided them on their work.

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Weekly - Following weekly writing practice. Authors' circle - The students will read their paragraphs to their peers and or teacher. They will discuss feedback, constructive and positive.

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Weekly. Practice writing. Create an informative paragraph with new information research on an Australian animal or plant from the Kakadu region.

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The final assessment will provide students the opportunity to showcase what they have learnt throughout the unit on how to present an informative test based on the Kakadu region.

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Group students into reading level and provide different levels of difficulty for reading tasks based on diagnostic assessment on day 3

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Formal Diagnostic assessment during one-to-one reading. Provide feedback to students after reading out loud, checking for queuing systems. Record findings of reading level to ensure appropriate reading level groping for the unit.

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Day 3- One on one reading. . Teacher conducts diagnostic assessments to confirm students reading level.

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Day 4 then weekly - Close Reading.  Provide informative text scaffold with question and answer sheet to be completed by each student.

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Weekly after diagnostic assessment -  Reading groups - Read imaginative texts about Australian. Discuss text features, compare differences to informative text.

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Weekly after diagnostic assessment - Reading groups - Students read informative texts about Australia. Discuss text features.

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Informal Formative assessment. Informal assessment based on the discussions in groups. Teacher to take anecdotal notes.

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Provide multiple versions of the book, digital, print, audio recording, video to ensure all students are provided equitable access to the mentor text.

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Day 7 - Listen for meaning. Teacher to read informative text on Australian animals and their habitat aloud. Seek comprehension with Q&A.

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Weekly - Wow words - Discuss new and interesting words from texts, starting with the mentor text. Create word bank.

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Day 6 - Peer Discussion Sustainability - Book will be read again. Students will discuss with each other their most and share ideas from the book. Infer ways they know they can contribute to sustainability, why it is important to the animals and environment in the book.

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Day 1 - Introduction to the unit. Real aloud - Students will listen for key information in the text, discuss ideas from the text, extend on ideas.

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Creating and Investigating with ICT. Utilising iPads to create final assessment piece. Utilising iPads for differentiation (voice to text, video recording, etc).

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Sustainability - Present sustainable acts to reduce the impact on the environment with final assessment piece. Research this during the unit.

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Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writing. ACELA1474

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Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose. ACELA1463

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Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure. ACELY1672

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Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose. ACELY1671

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Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions. ACELY1666

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Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways. ACELT1591

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Unit: Kakadu National Park

Aus. Curriculum

Year level: 2

Scenario: Difficulties.

This book will be referred to as the mentor text for this unit.