The rationale should explain the literary text choice and unit focus, making explicit links to relevant research literature and the Australian Curriculum: English (ACE). Remember, the purpose of a rationales to explain and justify what you plan to teach, how you plan to teach it and what resources you will use with reference to the ACE & Teaching Approaches and Frameworks. Use the course readings and other academic literature to justify the planning decisions for the English Curriculum Plan. Please note it is often best to write the rationale last for this assignment as you need to have thought about your curriculum links, Writing, Reading and Literacy block teaching and learning sequences first. 

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• State the English Curriculum Plan will form a part of a one-week literacy block.
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•  Explain the context of the school in which the plan will be implemented. Include the following:  
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  •  Identify the year level for the plan. State the year level of the English Curriculum Plan  Year 3 or 4 
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  •  Describe the class context of the curriculum plan, including: 
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    • where the school is located. 
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    • the school term, the unit plan will be implemented
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  •  Describe students' prior knowledge and established classroom routines, e.g. Have students completed guided reading groups previously?  
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  •  Describe the diversity of students in the class. Remember to link this with your three student groups identified for Guided Reading  Literacy Rotations. 
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• State what focus text you have selected for Modelled and Shared Reading and give a reason.
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• Accurately identify the genre of your focus text
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• State what texts you have selected for your Guided Reading sessions and give a reason. 
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• Describe the explicit focus and Content Descriptions for learning in the unit.
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