Help your Year 3 students master comparing texts the way the Australian Curriculum asks for it. AC9E3LE01 asks students to discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators, and AC9E3LY05 asks them to use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features. This complete unit teaches students to find what two texts have in common and how they are different.

This is built specifically for the Australian Curriculum. Students learn that comparing means finding what’s alike and contrasting means finding what’s different, how to compare two stories by setting, plot, and theme, and how to compare two texts on the same topic by their points and details. One clear idea runs through the whole unit: comparing two texts is like comparing two friends - you find what they share and how they differ.

Every lesson follows a consistent arc: a clear learning target, direct instruction with modelled examples, guided and independent practice, and a recap. Three worksheets (six pages) move students from vocabulary and everyday alike-and-different practice, through comparing two stories and two topic texts, to writing a full compare and contrast statement on their own with a self-check. The unit closes with a solo exit ticket and a four-point rubric.

Includes a full lesson deck, three worksheets, an exit ticket, and a 4-point rubric. All passages are original - not recycled public-domain filler.

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM V9 (ENGLISH), YEAR 3

AC9E3LE01 - discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators

AC9E3LY05 - use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

AC9E3LY01 - recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences

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