Help your Year 3 students master author’s purpose the way the Australian Curriculum asks for it. AC9E3LY03 asks students to identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images, and AC9E3LA03 asks them to describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose. This complete unit teaches students to figure out why an author wrote and to back it up with reasons.

This is built specifically for the Australian Curriculum. Students learn the three purposes with the PIE trick - persuade, inform, entertain - how to find the author’s main point, how to spot the reasons that support it, and how to tell the author’s view from their own. One clear idea runs through the whole unit: an author is a builder, the point is the roof, and the reasons are the walls that hold it up.

Every lesson follows a consistent arc: a clear learning target, direct instruction with modelled examples, guided and independent practice, and a recap. Three worksheets (six pages) move students from vocabulary and PIE sorting, through finding the point and the reasons, to writing a full point and reason statement on their own with a self-check. The unit closes with a solo exit ticket and a four-point rubric.

What is the keystone skill? The Point + Reason Statement: the author wants to persuade, inform, or entertain, their point is a certain big idea, and one reason backs it up. This reusable sentence frame builds all three parts of a strong Year 3 answer - the purpose, the point, and a supporting reason - into one sentence students can use with any text.

Includes a full lesson deck, three worksheets, an exit ticket, and a 4-point rubric. All passages are original - not recycled public-domain filler.

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM V9 (ENGLISH), YEAR 3

AC9E3LY03 - identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images

AC9E3LA03 - describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose

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