Oz-e-English: Writing (Language)
In Lessons 1 to 9, students learn to:
- Write, edit and improve sentences that use story starters (Dreamtime story).
- Write, edit and improve sentences that use story starters (once upon a time).
- Write, edit and improve descriptive sentences about a character (adjectives).
- Write, edit and improve descriptive sentences about a character (adverbs).
- Write, edit and improve descriptive sentences about a character (similes).
- Write, edit and improve compound sentences that include more than one character.
- Write, edit and improve compound sentences that include dialogue (questions).
- Write, edit and improve compound sentences that include dialogue (exclamation mark).
- Write, edit and improve compound sentences using imaginative language (past tense/adverbs).
- Use everyday language features and topic-specific vocabulary when discussing ideas and experiences.
- Explain preferences for aspects of texts using other texts as comparisons.
- Create texts that show how images support the meaning of the text.
- Create texts, drawing on their own experiences, their imagination and information they have learnt.
- Use a variety of strategies to engage in group and class discussions and make presentations.
- Spell words with regular spelling patterns and spell words with less common long vowel patterns accurately.
- Use punctuation accurately and write words and sentences legibly using unjoined upper- and lower-case letters.
Progress test
- Progress tests are conducted after Lesson 5. They allow teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past five lessons and to identify where reteaching is needed.
- The Teaching Guide contains the progress test script and there is a handout for students to write their answers on.
- Week 10 is the end-of-unit assessment, which has the same variety of question formats as the progress tests (e.g. multiple choice, filling in blanks/punctuation, editing, constructing, and improving sentences) to assess student mastery of sentence level writing development from the unit.
- The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions and the end-of-unit assessment handout for students to write their answers on.
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