Unit Overview

Year Level and Unit Title

Duration

Year 4 Journal writing

5 weeks (5 lessons)

Rationale
Students will inevitably have an understanding of how to write a diary/journal entry using the appropriate recount
prompting. Students will also create a handwritten draft, focussing on their handwriting

Curriculum Outcomes

ACELY1695 Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve
content and structure.
ACELY1694 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.
ACELT1794 Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings.
ACELA1491 Understand how texts are made cohesive through the sense of linking devices including
pronoun reference and text connectives.
ACELA1498 Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students own texts including
vocabulary uncounted in research.
ACELY1493 Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun
groups/phrases and verb groups/phases and prepositional phases.
ACELA1492 Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct)
speech.

PRIOR LEARNING

OUTCOMES

Understanding the process of writing

a recount
Knowledge of convicts and a basic
understanding of the First Fleet

FUTURE LEARNING

Ability to write a recount based on a

First Fleet convict.
Develop the confidence to self-edit
own work.

Ability to successfully write a recount

without prompting.

PRODUCT & ASSESSMENT

Key assessment /culminating task
Culminating Event

Final completion of diary entry typed and printed.

Handwriting focus during draft writing & self editing of said draft.

Specific student needs

NEP students (Students A, B, C)

Lesson
sequence

Adjustments and considerations

Explicit prompting. Possible worksheet including anchor
charts and template.

Learning Experiences

Holiday recount
Monday 17/10
Monday 24/10
Monday 31/10

Paragraphing and punctuation

What is a journal/diary?
Drafting their convict diary.
Explain assessment rubric.
Continuing with their diary draft.
Check for prompting.
Emphasise on self-editing.

Monday 7/11

Monday 14/11

Continuing with diary. Completing their typed

copy

Main Resources

Check for learning/

Assessment

1. Recount
Website.
2. Worksheet
1. Worksheets
1. YouTube video
2. Assessment
rubric

Following of recount
plan.

1. Diary entry
template
(Saved on
computer)
2. Laptops for
those who are
onto their final
copy.
1. Diary entry
template
2. Laptops.

Handwriting focus

Marking, assessment
Handwriting focus