AC9E1LE02 • Year 1 English

Literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’...: Year 1 English topic guide

discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences

What students learn in AC9E1LE02

This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of Literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’.... The goal is not to memorise one answer pattern. Students should be able to explain the idea, recognise it in a new example and apply it in a short practice or worksheet task.

  • Start with the main idea: discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences.
  • Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
  • generating questions about characters, settings and events from books and sharing responses discussing different texts and offering opinions about how they reflect their own experiences
  • Finish with mixed questions so students must choose the correct strategy rather than copy the last example.

Curriculum coverage and elaborations

The content description and elaborations below show the curriculum ideas taught in this unit. Items marked as teaching context support lesson planning but may not appear in the initial eight-question activity.

  • Content description: discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences
  • E1: generating questions about characters, settings and events from books and sharing responses
  • E2: discussing different texts and offering opinions about how they reflect their own experiences
  • E3: expressing responses to characters and events in stories using drawing and role-play
  • E4: identifying who is telling the story in different texts

How to use this unit

Read the topic guide, use the teacher slide for instruction, then complete the Worksheet, Practice and Test. These three activities use the same eight-question unit bank.

Teacher resource

AC9E1LE02 teacher slide

Use this one-page PDF to introduce the key idea, vocabulary and teaching sequence before students begin the activities.

Open teacher slide (PDF)

Common mistakes to watch for

  • Answering from memory without using clues from the text, sentence or image.
  • Knowing the idea orally but not transferring it into reading, writing or speaking.
  • Missing punctuation, word order or vocabulary clues that change meaning.

International curriculum mapping

This table gives closest-topic mapping for search and planning. The Australian Curriculum code is exact; overseas entries are broad equivalents because each jurisdiction structures outcomes differently.

RegionCurriculumClosest mapping
AustraliaAustralian Curriculum v9.0AC9E1LE02 — discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences
VictoriaVictorian Curriculum F-10Year 1 English: closest match in Engaging with and responding to literature. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference.
NSWNSW CurriculumStage 1 English: closest content focus for Literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’... and related outcomes.
United StatesCommon Core / NGSSGrade 1 Common Core Mathematics/ELA closest topic match for Literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’....
England / UKNational CurriculumKey Stage 1 / Year 1: closest programme-of-study match for Literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’....
CanadaProvincial and territory curriculaGrade 1 closest topic match. Canada varies by province, so use this as a broad Ontario/BC-style learning outcome reference.
New ZealandNew Zealand CurriculumLevel 1 English: closest achievement-objective topic for Literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’....
IndiaNCERT / CBSEClass 1 closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for Literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’....

Related Year 1 English topics

Official curriculum references