Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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
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