to create imaginative, informative and Text set: persuasive texts for different Edwina the emu audiences. Olga the brolga • Rereads and revises text to and Sail away: The ballad of Skip and Nell improve meaning, deleting unnecessary information or adding new information. Waltzing Matilda • Uses sentence and simple punctuation correctly. READING: Using the above texts, cover the same literacy continuum markers and English syllabus content descriptors as listed • Uses morphemic, visual, phonic in this unit. knowledge and knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to spell and edit words. WRITING: Follow this unit outline and create a character, setting and/or plot to create a complete imaginative text • Uses grammatical features such as pronouns, conjunctions and connectives incorporating students’ descriptive paragraph in this unit. to accurately link ideas and information. FOR TEXT SET: Edwina the emu Olga the brolga Sail away: The ballad of Waltzing Matilda Skip and Nell Difficult Word Difficult Word Difficult Word Difficult Word vocab: families: vocab: families: vocab: families: vocab: families: required night brolga T’was loud billabong Create word entwining fight whiny crocodile oath proud Coolabah families announced downright neither waltzing from the yeek twirled jiving marsh kith jumbuck text depressed whirled replied harsh kin swagman eg stow. ballerina collapsed redesign stowed mow, throw & Spelling director choking enough head glee pirouette joking marsh instead tuckerbag bristled barely squatter couple required dejected thoroughbred muttered hired rejected nagging descended
to create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different audiences. • Rereads and revises text to and improve meaning, deleting unnecessary information or adding new information. • Uses sentence and simple punctuation correctly. • Uses morphemic, visual, phonic knowledge and knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to spell and edit words. • Uses grammatical features such as pronouns, conjunctions and connectives to accurately link ideas and information. Text set: Edwina the emu Olga the brolga Sail away: The ballad of Skip and Nell Waltzing Matilda READING: Using the above texts, cover the same literacy continuum markers and English syllabus content descriptors as listed in this unit. WRITING: Follow this unit outline and create a character, setting and/or plot to create a complete imaginative text incorporating students’ descriptive paragraph in this unit. FOR TEXT SET: Edwina the emu Olga the brolga Sail away: The ballad of Skip and Nell Waltzing Matilda & Spelling Difficult vocab: required entwining announced yeek depressed ballerina director pirouette bristled couple muttered Word families: night fight twirled whirled choking joking required hired Difficult vocab: brolga whiny downright jiving replied collapsed enough marsh barely dejected rejected nagging descended Word families: crocodile marsh harsh head instead Difficult vocab: T’was oath neither kith kin redesign Word families: loud proud Difficult vocab: billabong Coolabah waltzing jumbuck swagman stowed glee tuckerbag squatter thoroughbred Word families: Create word families from the text eg stow. mow, throw
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