English - Unit 2: Our Community Legends - LESSON PLANS - Year 5

Tired of spending your weekends planning? Transform your Year 5 English lessons with this complete, 9-week inquiry-based unit that brings storytelling, community history and digital creation to life!

Step into the world of "Unit 2: Our Community's Legends," a comprehensive English unit designed to save you time and deeply engage your Year 5 students. This unit focuses on building a strong foundation in understanding narrative structure, exploring literary devices like imagery, gathering stories through interviews, writing engaging narratives and creating compelling multimodal texts using digital tools.

Packed with creative, hands-on activities, this unit will transform your classroom into a dynamic, inquiry-based learning space where students don't just learn about stories—they become community historians, skilled interviewers, narrative writers and digital storytellers connecting with the people around them.

What's Inside?

This 9-week unit is meticulously planned to help you deliver exceptional English lessons with confidence. You will find:

• 9 Weeks of Engaging Lesson Plans: Guide your students through a journey of discovery, from 'Listening to Country' and learning respectful storytelling, mastering 'Open vs. Closed Questions' for interviews, becoming 'Imagery Detectives' analysing mentor texts, drafting compelling narratives using expanded noun groups, planning with storyboards, creating their own 'Digital Storybooks' with illustrations and narration and showcasing their work at the final 'Community Legends Film Festival'.
• Australian Curriculum Aligned: This unit is fully aligned with the Year 5 English curriculum. It explicitly covers key content descriptors including AC9E5LE01 (Cultural Contexts), AC9E5LE04 (Imagery/Metaphor/Personification), AC9E5LE05 (Create Literary Texts), AC9E5LA06 (Expanded Noun Groups), AC9E5LA07 (Sequence of Images), AC9E5LY02 (Interaction Skills - Interviewing) and AC9E5LY06 (Create Written & Multimodal Texts).
• Hands-On & Experiential Learning: Foster genuine understanding with interactive and creative activities that make narrative and multimodal concepts memorable and impactful. Imagine your students participating in yarning circles, conducting real-world interviews with family or community members, using 'Show, Don't Tell' charades to practice figurative language, designing storyboards, creating digital illustrations, recording their own narration, giving peer feedback during workshops and experiencing the pride of publishing a digital story.
• Built-in Assessment & Differentiation: Effortlessly monitor student progress through natural observation opportunities embedded in each activity. Every lesson includes clear support and extension tasks to cater to all learners in your classroom.
• Early Career Connections: Expose students to potential future pathways by weaving career education into every lesson. Connect activities to the work of a Journalist, Librarian/Archivist, Museum Curator, Biographer/Author, Documentary Filmmaker, Multimedia Artist, Sound Engineer or Podcast Host.
• Summative Assessment Task: Conclude the unit with a comprehensive "Our Community's Legend Digital Storybook" task, complete with a student-friendly rubric for marking.

Cover Your Entire Year of English!

This is Unit 2 of a comprehensive 4-unit bundle for Year 5. Together, these four units cover all key aspects of the Year 5 English Curriculum, providing you with a full year's worth of engaging, high-quality English lessons focusing on:

1. The Great School Debate (Persuasion & Presentation)
2. Our Community's Legends (Narrative & Multimodal Storytelling)
3. The Novel Investigation (Literary Analysis & Context)
4. The Language Codebreakers (Grammar, Vocabulary & Spelling)

Stop the endless search for resources and reclaim your time.

Download "Unit 2: Our Community's Legends" today and ignite a passion for storytelling, community connection and digital creativity in your classroom!