Reading and Viewing
Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Compare and Contrast
An extensive resource pack helping students compare and contrast information.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding Word Meaning in Context
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand how to work out the meaning of words in context.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Making Predictions
An extensive resource pack helping students to learn how to make predictions.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recognising Cause and Effect
A comprehensive resource pack helping students to recognise cause and effect.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recalling Facts and Details
A comprehensive resource pack helping students learn how to recall facts and details.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Real and Make-Believe
A comprehensive resource pack to help students distinguish between real and make-believe.
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Experimenting with Poetry Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This English unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Humorous Poetry - Limericks
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a limerick.
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Writing Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
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Forms of Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some well-known and commonly used forms of fixed verse.
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Summarising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.
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Research Skills - Note Taking
A 60 minute lesson in which students will take appropriate notes from an informative text.
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Activating Prior Knowledge
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
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Introduction to Historical Recounts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
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Assessment - Experimenting with Poetry
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of poetry by writing an ode and a ballad.
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Narrative Poetry - Simple Ballads
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a simple ballad.
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The Poet's Lament
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore their preconceived ideas and attitudes towards poetry.
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Inferring
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of inferring.
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Sound Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate sound devices in poetry.
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Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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Predicting
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
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Monitoring
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
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Figurative Language
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate figurative language in poetry.
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Research and Note Taking - Exciting Expeditions
A 60 minute lesson in which students will research and take notes about an exciting expedition in history.
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Historical Recounts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of historical recounts.
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Questioning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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Historical Recounts - Literary vs Factual
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the difference between a literary historical recount and a factual historical recount.