Processes and strategies
Students will: Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.
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Uses a developing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts;
- Use the tasks from the following Specialised English Lessons to develop students’ understanding of the connections between oral, written and visual language when creating texts: Imaginative Texts, Digital Composition, Digital Pictures and Publishing (Years 5 & 6 Writing) and Effective Group Work (Years 5 & 6 Oral Language).
Creates a range of texts by integrating sources of information and processing strategies with developing confidence;
- View the Write Time digital documentaries and worksheets to assist students develop a variety of text creation strategies.
Seeks feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning, and effect;
- Study Specialised English Lessons Refining Editing Skills (Years 5 & 6 Writing) to encourage students to make changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning and effect.
Is reflective about the production of own texts: monitors and self-evaluates progress, articulating learning with growing confidence.
- Students reflect on the texts they produce for the tasks provided for Specialised English Lessons Effective Group Work and Speaking to an Audience* (Years 5 & 6 Oral Language)
Purposes and audiences
Show a developing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.
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Constructs texts that show a growing awareness of purpose and audience through careful choice of content, language, and text form;
Conveys and sustains personal voice where appropriate.
- Use writing tasks from Specialised English Lessons What are the Shapes of Texts? and Features of Texts (Years 5 & 6 Writing) to provide opportunities for students to study and construct texts that demonstrate awareness of purpose and audience conveying and sustaining personal voice where appropriate.
Ideas
Select, form, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.
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Forms and expresses ideas and information with increased clarity, drawing on a range of sources;
Adds or changes details and comments to support ideas, showing some selectivity in the process;
- Use the Write Time worksheets for students to practise forming and expressing ideas and information clearly, altering details and comments to support ideas conveyed in their writing.
Ideas suggest awareness of a range of dimensions or viewpoints.
- Students complete Task 1 from Specialised English Lessons Imaginative Texts (Years 5 & 6 Writing) and Children in History Worksheet #1 for The Bell and the Bushranger & Worksheet #2 for Runaway to practise communicating ideas from different viewpoints.
Language features
Use language features appropriately, showing a developing understanding of their effects.
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Uses oral, written, and visual language features to create meaning and effect and engage interest;
- Provide opportunities for students to practise creating meaning and effect and engaging interest by using the following relevant Specialised English Lessons:
- oral: Who Are We Talking To?, Talking About Feelings, Asking Politely, Open and Closed Questions, Speaking to an Audience and Effective Group Work (Years 5 & 6 Oral Language).
- written: Identifying Narrative Voice, Objective and Subjective Language (Years 5 & 6 Writing); Using Emotive Language, Figurative Language and Visual Imagery (Years 5 & 6 Reading)
- visual: Digital Composition and Digital Pictures and Publishing (Years 5 & 6 Writing).
Uses a range of vocabulary to communicate meaning;
- Explore idioms and proverbs using Specialised English Lessons What Are Idioms? (Years 5 & 6 Reading) and More and Better Words (Years 5 & 6 Writing).
Demonstrates good understanding of all basic spelling patterns and sounds in written English;
- Study the Spelling modules and worksheets in Skill Builders to develop students’ understanding of spelling patterns and sounds in written English.
Uses an increasing range of strategies to self-monitor and self-correct spelling;
- View Specialised English Lessons Why is English Spelt So Strangely? (Years 5 & 6 Writing) to encourage students to self-monitor common errors when spelling often misspelt words.
Writes legibly, fluently, and with ease when creating texts;
- Students refine their handwriting skills when creating texts for Write Time worksheets and the following Graphic Classics worksheets: Aladdin (#2), The Happy Prince (#4), Beauty and the Beast (#1) & King Arthur (#3).
Uses a range of text conventions, including most grammatical conventions, appropriately and with increasing accuracy.
- Use the Grammar and Punctuation modules and worksheets from Skill Builders and the following Specialised English Lessons (Years 5 & 6 Writing) to study text conventions:
- How to Join Sentences (conjunctions)
- What are Noun Phrases?
- Adding Descriptors
- What Time Is It? (tense)
- Why Punctuate?
Structure
Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures.
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Organises written ideas into paragraphs with increasing confidence;
- Provide opportunities for students to organise ideas into paragraphs using Specialised English Lessons Separating Information in Texts and Information Reports (Years 5 & 6 Writing).
- Encourage the use of topic sentences to begin paragraphs using Specialised English Lessons Topic Sentences (Years 5 & 6 Writing).
Organises and sequences ideas and information with increasing confidence;
- Use the Write Time digital documentaries and worksheets to assist students to organise and sequence ideas and information in a range of texts.
- Assist students with organising and sequencing ideas and information using Specialised English Lessons Topic Sentences (Years 5 & 6 Writing).
- Students practise organising information when creating texts using the activities from the following Children in History worksheets:
Uses a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths.
- Study the Specialised English Lessons How to Join Sentences (Years 5 & 6 Writing) and the Sentences module and worksheets in the Grammar section of Skill Builders to encourage students to use complex sentences when creating texts.
- Use Specialised English Lessons What Are Noun Phrases? (Years 5 & 6 Writing) to promote the use of pre-modifiers and post modifiers to expand noun phrases.
