English - Unit 4 Our Publishing House - Kindergarten/ Foundation Year/ Prep

Turn your students into published authors! This complete, 10-week capstone unit guides your Foundation students through the entire writing and publishing process, from their first idea to a final, celebrated book.

Bring the year's learning together with "Our Publishing House," a comprehensive English unit where students apply their literacy skills in the most meaningful project of all: creating their own book. This unit transforms your classroom into a bustling publishing house, empowering students as they take on the roles of author, illustrator, and editor.

This project-based unit saves you countless hours of planning and provides a memorable, hands-on experience that consolidates a year's worth of writing development.

What's Inside?

This 10-week unit is meticulously planned to guide your students through the complete writing process. You will find:

• 10 Weeks of Project-Based Lesson Plans: Students become "Capital Letter Detectives", "Punctuation Detectives", and "Word Architects", before drafting in "The Writing Workshop", creating in "The Illustration Station”, collaborating with "The Editing Team", and celebrating at "The Grand Book Launch."
• Australian Curriculum Aligned: As the capstone unit, this is fully aligned with the Foundation Year English curriculum. It explicitly covers key writing and language content descriptors including AC9EFLA09, AC9EFLY06, AC9EFLY08, AC9EFLY12 and AC9EFLY14.
• Consolidates All Writing Skills: This unit explicitly teaches and provides practice for using capital letters and punctuation, correct letter formation, writing CVC words and using high-frequency words to build sentences.
• Built-in Assessment & Differentiation: Effortlessly monitor student progress as they draft, edit, and illustrate. The final published book serves as a powerful summative assessment, supported by the "My Story Page" task and rubric. Every lesson includes clear support, enrichment and extension tasks to cater to all learners.
• Early Career Connections: Expose students to potential future pathways by connecting lessons to the real-world publishing industry. Explore the roles of a Graphic Designer, Editor, Publisher and Author.

The Complete Year-Long English Solution!

This is Unit 4 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, and sequential English lessons. Stop the endless search for resources and reclaim your time.

Download "Unit 4: Our Publishing House" and celebrate your students' journey to becoming confident, published authors!