This is a 7-page unit from the Developing Comprehension skills and word knowledge series that covers:
Text
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)
Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately (ACELY1789)
Identify aspects of different types of texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences (ACELT1590)
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591)
Comprehension
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670)
Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, re-reading and self-correcting (ACELY1669)
Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in between (ACELT1589)
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470)
Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created (ACELT1587)
Word knowledge
Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writing (ACELA1474)
Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable (ACELA1824)
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1471)
Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations (ACELA1825)
Links to other curriculum arears
Humanities and Social Sciences – Geography
The idea that places are parts of Earth’s surface that have been named by people, and how places can be defined at a variety of scales (ACHASSK048)
Each individual text type covers a number of content descriptions across the Language, Literature and Literacy strands of Australian Curriculum English. The detailed lesson plans save valuable planning time and allow for individual student differences. Use all, or some, of the ideas provided to cater to the needs of your class.
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