The Show - NAPLAN - Directly Stated Facts

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 5 English:

• Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts (ACELT1608)
• Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning (ACELY1702)
• Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)

Year 6 English:

• Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713)

Syllabus outcomes: EN3-8D, EN3-3A

General capabilities: Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
They analyse and explain literal and implied information from a variety of texts. They describe how events, characters and settings in texts are depicted and explain their own responses to them.

Relevant parts of Year 6 achievement standards:
Students compare and analyse information in different and complex texts, explaining literal and implied meaning. They select and use evidence from a text to explain their response to it.

Unit of work: The Show – NAPLAN preparation 

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – teacher will explicitly model the strategy students will practise during the lesson, and gradually release responsibility so that the students are familiar with the strategy before working independently.

• One piece of large poster paper (A1 or similar)
• A class set of Understanding What We Read Resource
• Welcome from RASV President
• Finding Proof: Pairs Practice
• Finding Proof Independent Practice
• Reflection Prompt. Sheep and Goats and Dogs and Cats (A4, 2-sided – print back to back)
• One copy of Finding Proof Teacher Worksheet printed in A3
• One A3 copy or the ability to project Supporting our Farmers

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Community engagement
• Critical thinking
• Social skills

This lesson has been developed in partnership with The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. For over 160 years, The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) has been running the Royal Melbourne Show, which, like other agricultural shows around the country, works to build the community’s knowledge and understanding of the vital role agriculture plays in our everyday lives.