NSW DET Stage 2 & 3 genre. perspective and context–DEADLY SCIENCE: WEATHER by Corey Tutt, CYCLONE by Jackie French (320+ pages)

Easy Preparation, comprehensive, ready-to-use 5-week unit designed to help students explore genre, perspective and context.

This resource is aligned with the NSW English syllabus and supports the teaching of Component B, providing teachers with a no-prep, high-quality learning experience that engages students while saving valuable planning time.

YOU WILL NEED TO PURCHASE YOUR OWN COPIES OF THE BOOKS (they are not provided by me)

Why Choose This Resource?
✔ Time-Saving & Easy to Implement – Designed for busy teachers, this unit requires little to no preparation, allowing you to focus on teaching rather than planning.

✔ Multiple Flexible Formats – Available as a PDF for easy printing, an editable PowerPoint for customisation, and a Google Slides version for seamless online access.

✔ Professional & Polished Design – Includes Google fonts for consistent formatting, ensuring a professional presentation across all formats.

✔ Visually Engaging & Interactive – Colourful slides with embedded PowerPoint animations bring key concepts to life, keeping students actively engaged in learning.

✔ Aligned to NSW Curriculum – Explicitly mapped to the NSW English syllabus focus areas, covering:

• Oral language and communication
• Vocabulary development
• Reading comprehension
• Creating written texts
• Understanding and responding to literature

Unit Overview

In this 5-week unit, students will gain greater understanding of the textual concepts of genre. perspective and context– Through study of the mentor texts DEADLY SCIENCE: WEATHER by Corey Tutt, CYCLONE by Jackie French and supporting digital texts, students will recognise that an argument can be presented as a single perspective and understand the difference between authority and authorship. Students will analyse digital texts to locate and retrieve relevant information to plan, revise, edit and publish a persuasive multimodal national park brochure.

Stage 2 Learning Intentions:

• Students are learning that texts can be grouped according to purpose, subject matter, form, structure and language choices and this is called genre.

Students can:

• build topic knowledge, including key vocabulary, and activate background knowledge
• efficiently follow signposting features to navigate print and digital texts
• understand that many words derive from other languages, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
• build personal Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary

Stage 3 Learning Intentions:

• Students are learning to experiment with elements in literature that do not follow the form and function of a single genre.

Students can:

• bring subject vocabulary, technical vocabulary and background knowledge to new reading tasks
• use knowledge of text structure to navigate the text to locate specific information
• identify and use words derived from other languages, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
• identify and use words that convey informative and objective meanings in texts.

Everything You Need in One Resource!

Editable PowerPoint with interactive slides
Google Slides version for online learning
Printable PDF for quick reference and hard copy distribution
Teacher Notes & Instructions throughout for effortless implementation
Engaging activities and discussion prompts

Perfect for Teachers Who Want:

✔ A hassle-free, engaging resource that requires no additional prep

✔ A high-quality unit mapped directly to the NSW syllabus

✔ A visually engaging, interactive PowerPoint to keep students focused and learning

Attribution is given to: © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2023.