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AERO Ochre English Year 5 Unit 1 - King Arthur: Narrative writing

This sequence of fifteen lessons supports students to unpack the features of a medieval tale. They examine a chapter of the story of King Arthur to identify key features of the text and then use them as models to compose a tale of their own.

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AERO Ochre English Year 6 Unit 1 - Jabberwocky: Narrative writing

Developed in partnership between AERO and Ochre Education, these lesson resources support the use of effective, evidence-based practices and address the learning expected in the Australian Curriculum. An exemplar unit plan provides guidance on the structure, sequence and decision-making made during the planning process. ...

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AERO Ochre English Year 3 Unit 2 - Anglerfish: information text

This sequence of ten lessons guides students through the process of creating a non-chronological information text. The unit investigates the characteristics, habitat and diet of the deep-sea anglerfish.

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AERO Ochre English Year 5 Unit 3 - The Happy Prince: Narrative text

This sequence of five lessons explores the narrative ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde. Students will discuss the story’s theme and the author’s use of language to create atmosphere and reader engagement.

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AERO Ochre English Year 4 Unit 2 - Mulga Bill’s Bicycle: Ballad

This sequence of five lessons unpacks the features of a ballad using Banjo Patterson’s ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle.’ Students are guided through the process of analysing a poem before using it as a model to create a version of their own.

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AERO Ochre English Year 4 Unit 1 - A Christmas Carol: Narrative text

This sequence of fifteen lessons supports students to unpack the features of a narrative using Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. They will then work through the process of planning and composing a narrative text.

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AERO Ochre English Year 6 Unit 2 - Inspirational figures: biographical writing

This sequence of eleven lessons explores the structure, grammar and vocabulary used in biographical texts. They compose a biography of Faith Bandler and build their word knowledge.

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AERO Ochre English Year 3 Unit 1 - Building houses: Persuasive text

This sequence of five lessons guides students through the process of creating a persuasive text. The unit explores decisions people make around where they choose to build houses, with a focus on issues related to building on floodplains.

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Representations in film and text

In this activity, students will read Kim Mahood's article Country needs people, analyse the opening quotation and a painting, and explore the diverse representations of traditional ecological knowledge, culminating in a written reflection on how these elements shape their understanding of Martu burning practices.

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The Swamp

This resource features the Yolngu-made film The Swamp. Students are provided with the opportunity to watch it and engage in a discussion exploring its genre, deviations from traditional documentary format, its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, challenges faced by the Yolngu people, and the film's ...

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Language in law

This resource explores the deep connections Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People have with country, and how this can be reflected in both language and law. In these classroom activities, students will examine the Victorian Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017 and the historic Wurundjeri Elders ...

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Untold education project: The invisible farmer

Invisible Farmer is the largest ever study of Australian women on the land. The project collects oral histories of women by creating interview-based video content. This website provides videos ,interview questions and suggestions to support teachers to guide students to create their own multimodal stories of women on the land.

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Making history

This resource supports students, individuals and community groups to research, produce and share a short digital history about a person or event.

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Gubuluk

Listen as Anne Gela tells the story of "Gubuluk". Anne is a Mualgal woman from the St Paul community of Moa Island, which is in the inner-west Torres Strait group of islands. Can you find Moa Island on a map? Anne speaks Big Thap Creole/Yumplatok.

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Safe Crossing Creator - Minecraft: Education Edition

A game for students to understand how to be safe when using railway and tram crossings. Students will read stories of characters, interpreting the unsafe behaviour shown and creating/placing a sign to remind all crossing users of the safe behaviour. As a learning artefact students produce a report detailing the unsafe ...

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Administering and analysing the Year 1 Phonics Check - Student 2

This short video (three minutes and 40 seconds) shows a teacher administering the Year 1 Phonics Check with a student who is given wait time to decode the words, followed by a teacher discussion about next steps for the student.

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Choosing and using decodable texts: Q&A

This video is of a Q&A session about choosing and using decodable texts in your classroom. It is presented by literacy specialists Rebecca McEwan and Elaine Stanley

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How to choose a decodable text

This video provides an overview of how to choose a decodable text for your students' needs. It is presented by literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan.

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Administering and analysing the Year 1 Phonics Check - Student 1

This short video (four minutes and 11 seconds) shows a teacher administering the online Year 1 Phonics Check with a student who displays efficient decoding skills, followed by a teacher discussion about next steps for the student.

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Administering and analysing the Year 1 Phonics Check - Student 3

This three-minute video shows a teacher administering the paper version of the Year 1 Phonics Check with a student who displays efficient recall and application of simple and complex code, followed by a teacher discussion about next steps for the student.