AC9EFLE01 • Foundation English
I can share an idea about a story, poem or picture and connect it to my own experience.
I can share an idea about a story, poem or picture and connect it to my own experience.
Learning goal: I can share an idea about a story, poem or picture and connect it to my own experience.
A picture story shows a child cooking flatbread with an aunt before a family picnic.
Think aloud: I name what happens in the text. I name one experience from my life. I compare only those two experiences and explain the clue.
In another story, the character travels a long way to collect the family mail. The reader walks to a letterbox beside their home.
Step by step: Notice the event, recall your own experience, choose similar or different, then explain why.
A picture story shows a child cooking flatbread with an aunt before a family picnic.
Think aloud: I name what happens in the text. I name one experience from my life. I compare only those two experiences and explain the clue.
In another story, the character travels a long way to collect the family mail. The reader walks to a letterbox beside their home.
Step by step: Notice the event, recall your own experience, choose similar or different, then explain why.
A literary text can show routines, places and relationships that feel familiar to a reader.
Think: Read an authentic text selected for the class. Point to one event, object or relationship. Model a complete connection: This feels familiar to me because I also greet my grandparent.
Try: What detail feels familiar to you, and what in your life does it remind you of?
A strong answer: Complete the modelled response and show this evidence in your own example: names a specific text detail and a relevant personal experience.
Check: The learner names a specific text detail and a relevant personal experience.
If you are stuck: Offer two pictured experiences and let the child point before saying a complete connection.
A story from another place can show an experience that is similar to or different from the reader's life.
Think: Notice where and how the event happens. Recall the reader's own version of that event. State similar or different and give a reason.
Try: The character travels through snow to school; how is your trip to school similar or different?
A strong answer: Complete the modelled response and show this evidence in your own example: compares the story journey with their own journey using one accurate reason.
Check: The learner compares the story journey with their own journey using one accurate reason.
If you are stuck: Use a two-column picture chart labelled In the story and In my life.
Children can listen to, view and respond to a story by a First Nations Australian storyteller in its named source and context.
Think: Introduce the creator and source accurately. Listen or view without copying restricted or sacred material. Share one idea using an exact story or image clue.
Try: What did you notice in this storyteller's work, and which part made you think that?
A strong answer: Complete the modelled response and show this evidence in your own example: shares a response grounded in the selected text and refers respectfully to its named creator or source.
Check: The learner shares a response grounded in the selected text and refers respectfully to its named creator or source.
If you are stuck: Replay one approved image and model a complete response, such as: I noticed the journey image; it made me think about travelling with family.
Australian stories can portray family life in suburban, regional, remote and other settings.
Think: Name the setting shown in each text. Find one family event in each setting. Compare the experiences using evidence.
Try: What changes because of the setting, and what family experience stays similar?
A strong answer: Complete the modelled response and show this evidence in your own example: identifies a setting clue and makes a supported comparison between family experiences.
Check: The learner identifies a setting clue and makes a supported comparison between family experiences.
If you are stuck: Place one landscape clue and one family-action clue under each story image.
Characters and events may reveal food, dress, celebrations, languages and daily routines within the particular story.
Think: Locate a visible or stated detail. Explain what the character does with it. Frame the observation as evidence from this story.
Try: What feature of daily life do you notice, and how does the story show it?
A strong answer: Complete the modelled response and show this evidence in your own example: identifies a cultural feature and links it to a character or event without overgeneralising.
Check: The learner identifies a cultural feature and links it to a character or event without overgeneralising.
If you are stuck: Model a complete sentence: In this story, the character shares a meal during a celebration.
After hearing a story or poem, name one experience in the text: travelling, sharing food, playing a game, caring for Country or spending time with family.
Keep the first answer close to the text. The learner should point to words or images before adding a personal connection. Accept oral, drawn or acted responses.
Say whether the text experience is similar to or different from your own life. Use respectful words such as In this story or In my family.
The value is in the comparison, not in deciding which experience is better. Encourage neutral wording when the text comes from a culture or community different from the learner's own.
Look at an illustration by a named author or illustrator. What idea can you share from one visible clue?
A valid idea must be supported by an observable detail such as a place, object, person, action, colour or repeated image. This keeps image talk evidence based.
Complete: The text shows ____. That is similar to or different from my experience because ____.
Support: offer two event cards from the text. Extend: include both one similarity and one difference while staying respectful and specific.
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Before you watch:
Khan Academy Kids — Listening to a family story and connecting an event with your own experience.
As you watch: What feels familiar or different about this family story?
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Try it: Tell an adult about a time people helped with a shared job. Compare it with one event in the story.
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