National Recycling Week - Closing the Paper Recycling Loop (NAPLAN Writing Practice)

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 3 English:

• Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)
• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1682)

Year 4 English:

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694)

Syllabus outcomes: EN2-9B, EN2-2A.

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, [Ethical Understanding.](https://ethical understanding/)

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.3.

Relevant parts of Year 3 achievement standards: Students understand how language features are used to link and sequence ideas. They understand how language can be used to express feelings and opinions on topics. Their texts include writing and images to express and develop, in some detail, experiences, events, information, ideas and characters. Students create a range of texts for familiar and unfamiliar audiences. They demonstrate an understanding of grammar and choose vocabulary and punctuation appropriate to the purpose and context of their writing.

Relevant parts of Year 4 achievement standards: Students use language features to create coherence and add detail to their texts. Students create structured texts to explain ideas for different audiences. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, varying language according to context.

• Student worksheets – one per student (printed)
• Projector with sound to view video
• If possible, use recycled paper to print worksheets on and save any discarded paper to reuse in other classroom activities

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

• communication
• community engagement
• critical thinking
• ethical understanding

Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week started in 1996 to bring a national focus to the environmental benefits of recycling. This highly regarded annual campaign continues to educate and stimulate behaviour change by promoting kerbside, industrial and community recycling initiative. It also gives people the tools to minimise waste and manage material resources responsibly at home, work and school. In partnership with Planet Ark, we have developed lessons from early learning through to year 10 to help educators bring these important topics into the classroom.

National Recycling Week is held in the second week of November each year but you can recycle all year-round with these lessons which were designed to be used at any time. Click here to find out more about National Recycling Week and the Schools Recycle Right Challenge.