Oz-e-English: Writing (Language)

Teaching Resources
In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn to:
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about sacred places
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about local places
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about connecting to places (around the world)
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about managing places
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about constructing places
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about landmarks
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about how places are represented (maps)
- write, edit and improve informative sentences about how we connect with a place.
- 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
End-of-Unit Assessment
- Progress tests are conducted after Lesson 5. They allow teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past five lessons and 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.
End-of-Unit Assessment
- 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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