Teachers: Date: 2015 Term 3

Caitlin Petrou
Year
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing)
level(s):
- Understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence
3/5/6
interpretations of characters, settings and events
Particula
- Listen and ask questions to clarify content
r part of
achievem Productive modes (speaking, writing and creating)
ent
- Students create a variety of sequenced texts for different purposes
standard
- Make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions,
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Top 5

Tasks

taking into account other perspectives

When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar, select specific
vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation, editing their work to
provide structure and meaning

Descriptive writing
Using multiple adjectives (correct sequence)
Writing using speech
Correct grammar and punctuation used when writing
Creating various texts for different purposes

Engagement
- Orientation of book (think about the title, what do you think the story is
about? Where do you think it could be set?)
- Read through story
Descriptive prose
- Discuss below paragraph: Why are multiple adjectives used? Why are
colons used?
(colons (:) are a punctuation mark used to precede a list of items or
quotation)
There was once a large brown bear who dreamed of a different life. A life
of wandering in the forests: if drinking the cool clear water of mountain
streams; of eating there, with her partner, in the shallows where the fish
paused to rest amongst the smooth green rocks beneath the surface.
- Use paragraph to write a descriptive piece of prose