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Stage 2 | English
Julie Moore
Summary
Unit overview This unit is a picture book / novel study that introduces the students to a narrative text type. The students will engage in reading, speaking and listening and writing activities to understand the features of the text. They will be involved in using creative and higher order thinking strategies to express their ideas imaginitively, as well as gain a sound knowledge and comprehension of the text.
Duration
3 ! weeks
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"#$ %& communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and
community contexts
"#$ $& plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language "#$ 3& uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies "#$ !& uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on
contexts
"#$ ,* identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose,
texts
"#$ %%1 responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own "#$ %$" recognises and uses an increasing range of strategies to reflect on their own and others2 learning
,ontent
Stage 2 * 1eading and 0ie%ing &
draw on experiences, knowledge of
Assessment
Resources Jeremiah in the Dark Woods (multiple Copies) Puffin 1989 Attached Worksheets Bral 0omprehension <riting Aamples 1escription #arrative Bral 5eading checking reading strategies <riting Aamples #arrative using marking criteria 6spelling, sentence structure, grammar and punctuation, text type7
effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604)
combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing (ACELY1679,
ACELY1691)
build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
(ACELY1680, ACELY1692)
text connectives
summarise a paragraph and indicate
the main idea, key points or key arguments in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
interpret text by discussing the
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E0aluation
Teacher 5eflection 1id 3 motivate students appropriately@ <ere students engaged in the activities@ <ere the activities appropriate to student needs@ 0ould ad-ustments be easily made.@ 1id students achieve the outcomes and understand the text@ Time management. 0omment 0omment the most positive aspects of the unit. 0omment on any future changes that may be made to maximise student outcomes.
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&rt lessons Atudents sketch characters using appropriate proportion, including detail. Then colour. Atudents create the dark woods scene using a grey or purple wash for the background then using wax crayons to create the trunks and branches of the trees and poster paints for the leaves. Atudents illustrate their fairytale booklets using mixed media, water colours, crayons >aths >apping looking at position when students place characters and landmarks on the map. Use grid paper and get students to coordinates to describe where things are on their map. "xtension &ctivity. Atudents hide something in the dark woods and create a se;uence of instructions including coordinates to find the hidden treasure. 1rama 5ole play. Atudents act out their comic strips and take on the roles of different characters. Atudents watch the videos of themselves and reflect.