Informative Texts Foundation Unit

Introduce Foundation learners to the ways words and pictures work together to communicate information. Across a clear one-week sequence, students use picture clues, read familiar community signs, label animal diagrams, sequence everyday procedures, locate facts in a simple information poster and create an informative page.

The unit combines explicit teaching with practical, age-appropriate application. An editable presentation and quiz support whole-class learning, while the colour display, Community Signs Bingo, procedure cards and ordering mat provide lively discussion and hands-on practice. Differentiated low-ink worksheets build confidence before students complete the school-garden assessment and five-level rubric. Seven matching answer pages are included directly after the relevant tasks.

What's Included

• 27-page unit plan PDF
• 17-slide editable presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz
• Words and Pictures Work Together colour display
• Community Signs Bingo with instructions, 12 calling cards and six boards
• Everyday Procedure Cards and Tell It in Order activity mat
• Support, core and open-response worksheets
• Seven matching worksheet and assessment answer pages
• Two-page School Garden Information Challenge assessment
• Five-level Foundation rubric
• Combined protected Preview PDF

Learning Focus

• Understand that pictures and words can work together to communicate meaning
• Use picture clues to support understanding of simple sentences and facts
• Interpret common community signs and symbols
• Identify and use labels, captions and factual details
• Sequence steps in familiar procedures
• Create a simple informative page with a heading, picture, labels and facts

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit whole-class teaching, then select the display, games and activity cards for modelled practice or literacy rotations. The support and core worksheets allow flexible grouping. Finish with the quiz, school-garden assessment and rubric, or spread the resources across additional revision sessions.

Curriculum Alignment

• Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9EFLA07
• Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACELA1786
• Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2EFLA07
• NSW: ENE-UARL-01
• Western Australian Curriculum: WAPELALA3
• New Zealand Curriculum: NZ-Y0-ENG-OL-CII-VR-1, NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-TSSF-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-TSSF-1, NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-SDC-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-SDC-1
• United Kingdom Curriculum: UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-R-C
• Common Core: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.4.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.8
• TEKS: TEKS-ELAR-GK-8C, TEKS-ELAR-GK-9C, TEKS-ELAR-GK-5C, TEKS-ELAR-GK-3B, TEKS-ELAR-GK-9D
• Ontario: CAN-G1-LANG-C1.4, CAN-G1-LANG-C3.4, CAN-GK-LANG-OE12

Product Details

• Year level: Foundation
• Subject: English
• Formats: downloadable PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX files
• Counts: 27-page unit plan, 17-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz
• Answers: seven worksheet and assessment answer pages

Digital product: No physical item is supplied. Purchase grants a single-classroom teacher licence. Files may be used with the purchaser's own students but may not be shared, resold, redistributed or uploaded to public or shared drives.