This is a 7-page unit from the Developing Comprehension skills and word knowledge series that covers:
Text
Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example, prediction, monitoring meaning and re-reading (ACELY1659)
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and ryhme (ACELT1585)
Respond to texts drawn from a range of cultures and experiences (ACELY1655)
Comprehension
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on grown knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582)
Word Knowledge
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound (ACELA1459)
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words (ACELA1458)
Use visual memory to read and write high-frequency words (ACELA1821)
Links to other curriculum areas
Humanities and Social Sciences – History
How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating time, as well as by dates and changes that may have personal significance, such as birthdays, celebrations and seasons (ACHASSK029)
Differences and similarities between students’ daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods (ACHASSK030)
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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