English - Unit 3 Sounding Out Our Stories - Kindergarten/ Foundation Year/ Prep

Build a powerful foundation for literacy! This complete, 10-week unit makes learning about sounds, words and sentences an exciting, hands-on adventure for your Foundation students.

Dive into "Sounding Out Our Stories," a comprehensive English unit designed to save you time while teaching the crucial skills of phonological awareness. This unit focuses on the building blocks of language, helping students recognise the sounds in words and understand how words group together to form sentences.

Through a series of vibrant, play-based activities, your classroom will become a sound studio and storytelling theatre, where students learn that language is a code they can crack to become confident readers, writers and speakers.

What's Inside?

This 10-week unit is meticulously planned to help you explicitly teach foundational literacy skills. You will find:

• 10 Weeks of Playful Lesson Plans: Your students will become "Sound Detectives" as they meet "The Rhyming Robot," go on a "Sound Hunt" for alphabet sounds, build sentences as a "Sentence Storyteller" and perform in "The Retell Theatre."
• Australian Curriculum Aligned: This unit is fully aligned with the Foundation Year English curriculum. It explicitly covers key phonological awareness and language content descriptors including AC9EFLA05, AC9EFLA06, AC9EFLY09, AC9EFLY10, and AC9EFLY04.
• Develops Phonological Awareness: Foster genuine understanding with hands-on activities that teach rhyme, initial sounds, sentence segmentation and sequencing. These skills are critical for developing strong readers.
• Built-in Assessment & Differentiation: Effortlessly monitor progress through observation opportunities embedded in every game and activity. Each lesson includes clear support, enrichment and extension tasks to cater to all learners.
• Early Career Connections: Expose students to potential future pathways by connecting skills to real-world professions. Explore the roles of a Poet, Songwriter, Film Director and Radio Host.
• Summative Assessment Task: Conclude the unit with a classic "Show and Tell" task, complete with a clear observational rubric to assess both speaking and listening skills.

Cover Your Entire Year of English!

This is Unit 3 of a comprehensive 4-unit bundle.

Together, these four units cover all mandatory content descriptors of the Foundation Year English Curriculum, providing you with a full year's worth of engaging, high-quality English lessons. Stop the endless search for resources and reclaim your time.

Download "Unit 3: Sounding Out Our Stories" and empower your students with the building blocks of literacy!