This unit teaches students the importance of empathy and compassion whilst engaging students with David Walliam’s humour. Students have previously studied the work the work of Roald Dahl, so they are familiar with this genre and language. This unit is designed to have students’ write in various forms throughout the term and variate their language and structure according the Purpose, Audience and Form. These writing tasks will be marked by the teacher as part of their Summative Assessment with the final task of creating a digital review of the novel in weeks 9 and 10. Students will be continuing the Reinforced Reading component of the MultiLit program with the class SLSO 1:1 as they are selected on a rotational basis to re-read the chapter that has been modelled to the class followed by the completion of a vocabulary and comprehension worksheet for the corresponding chapter. Student accuracy and fluency will continue to be assessed on a fortnightly basis using the MultiLit WARP assessment tool.

This program was designed to cater to the needs of an Australian SSP (School for Specific Purposes) class for students who exhibit challenging behaviours. The program was written for an Australian Stage 4 class (Years 7 and 8) but could easily be adapted for younger or older students. The Key Learning Areas addressed throughout this 10 week program include: English Science Maths HSIE (Geography) PDHPE The outcomes are from the Australian Curriculum (mainstream) with adjustments made throughout to cater for students’ highly personalised learning and behaviour needs.

This unit is designed to have students think critically and use the strategies taught to form a balanced argument and counter-argument. The theme of Sustainability and Climate Change runs throughout the entirety with students producing a visual letter to someone in power asking them to think about an issue they feel powerfully about. Via this citizenship approach, students are encouraged to recognise not only the persuasive powers of others, but also acknowledge and empower their own persuasive thinking and reasoning.

This program was designed using the Australian Curriculum Life Skills Outcomes and is designed to cater for the highly personalised needs of students in a Secondary Support Class. This unit is divided into four parts and is closely linked to the Literacy Progressions. Students will be assessed on their abilities and areas for progress in the skills of Sight Words, Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Reading Accuracy and Fluency. The results from a combination of diagnostic assessments will allow students to be placed on the Literacy Progressions in the three areas of Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Reading. Student achievement and progress will be on display in the classroom via a Bump It Up wall in the area of Reading. This is to encourage students throughout their completion of the MultiLit Reinforced Reading Program. Students will also be completing a highly personalised Sight Words program followed by a Phonemic- based Spelling Program. These three skill-based areas will continue throughout the first semester of the school year. Finally, as a reading and writing component, students will complete a series of reading and writing tasks based on the genre of Personal Narratives. These will be modelled with an emphasis on planning, proof-reading and editing published work. Students will: • Complete a series of Literacy assessments which will benchmark their ability and areas for progress • Participate in a 1:1 Sight Words program with accompanying spelling and reinforcement activities • Learn vital phonemic spelling rules and strategies as they complete the Sound Wave Phonemic Spelling Program whilst working at their personalised level • Complete MultiLit’s 1:1 Reinforced Reading Program twice per week and have their progress assessed and charted fortnightly • Learn the purpose, audience and form used in Personal Narratives • Appreciate the significance of planning, proof-reading and publishing pieces of written work. *** This is only the program***

This is a comprehensive study of William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ broken down into 30 lessons in which key scenes from each of the five acts, are analysed by students using the original text. Students will annotate their understanding of the bard’s words and in some lessons, modernise these to enhance understanding. Students will explore not only language devices such as juxta positioning and dramatic irony, they will also work with the concepts of the themes love, hate and fate. Students will learn to express their interpretation of the play via a PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link) formula and this will be used as part of their Summative Assessment. Various scaffolds and prompts are available consistently throughout this close study of the tragic text.