Visy Education - The Main Idea? Recycle! - NAPLAN Style Reading Skills

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 3 English:

• Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view (ACELY1675).
• Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479).
• Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596).
• Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680).

Syllabus outcomes: EN2-4A, EN2-9B, EN2-11D

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.8.

Relevant parts of Year 3 achievement standards: They identify literal and implied meaning connecting ideas in different parts of a text. They select information, ideas and events in texts that relate to their own lives and to other texts. They listen to others’ views and respond appropriately using interaction skills.

Unit of work: Visy Education – Literacy Skills.

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – model literacy strategies for students.

• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Say No To Waste text (printed A3 or projected for class to view)
• Finding the Main Idea learning tool
• Why is Recycling Important? Factsheet

• Communication
• Critical thinking
• Enterprise
• Ethical understanding
• Global citizenship
• Initiative

This lesson has been developed in partnership with Visy. For over 70 years Visy has been committed to finding sustainable solutions for Australia and New Zealand’s recyclables and helping to reduce local landfills. Visy collects, receives and sorts paper, cardboard, glass, plastics, steel and aluminium from households, businesses and schools with the purpose of reusing these products in the re-manufacture of new packaging products.