Focus+Outcome

This Stage 2 integrated unit has been designed around the HSIE focus of Cultural Identities, focusing specifically on the outcome:


 * CUS2.3 Explains how shared customs, practices, symbols, languages and traditions in communities contribute to Australian and community identities **

Specific Indicators Addressed in this unit include, but are not limited to:
 * //Identifies some of the community groups that people can belong to //
 * //Identifies diverse customs, practices and symbols shared by their local community and all communities within Australia //
 * //Examines the different perceptions that people living within a community have of that community //
 * //Identifies some significant customs, practices and traditions of their local community, beginning with Aboriginal people //
 * //Compares their own community with another Australian community//
 * //Describes similarites and differences between communities in Australia, Asia and other places in the world //
 * //Identifies makor community religions and places of religious significance//
 * //Listens to and retells traditional, religious and ethical stories that relate to some groups in the Australian community//

Other outcomes covered through this unit include: >
 * T//S2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum.//
 * //TS2.2 Interacts effectively in groups and pairs, adopting a range of roles, uses a variety of media and uses various listening strategies for different situations. //
 * //TS2.3 Identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts and distinguishes between different varieties of English //
 * //TS2.4 Identifies common organisationl patterns and some characteristic language features of a few types of predictable spoken texts //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events. //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">RS2.7 Dsicusses how writers relate to their readers in different ways, how they create a variety of worlds through language and how they use language to achieve a wide range of purposes //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">RS2.8 Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and the grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreas and publishes well-structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">WS2.10 Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and puntuation conventions of the text type. //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">WS2.11 Uses knowledge of letter–sound correspondences, common letter patterns and a range of strategies to spell familiar and unfamiliar words. //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',Gadget,sans-serif;">WS2.13 Discusses how own texts are adjusted to relate to different readers, how they develop the subject matter and how they serve a wide variety of purposes. //