Lesson+4

ENS2.5 Describes places in the local area and other parts of Australia and explains their significance.  TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. · // listens to descriptions of unfamiliar places // · //offers opinions about descriptions read aloud // · // justifies a point of view with supporting evidence // TS2.4 Identifies common organisational patterns and some characteristic language features of a few types of predictable spoken texts. · //talks about common grammatical structures // RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts. · //identifies adjectives and how they are used to provide information about nouns // <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">RS2.7 Discusses how writers relate to their readers in different ways, how they create a variety of worlds through language and how they use language to achieve a wide range of purposes. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">recognises how different literary texts are organised according to their purpose //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">RS2.8 Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and the grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">identifies additional elements in noun groups, eg describing adjective, classifying adjective, comparing adjective, numbering adjective // <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">uses other texts as models for aspects of writing such  // ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">structures text types in appropriate stages // ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">writes fuller descriptions of places // ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">writes for a chosen audience // ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">selects relevant information to use in own writing // <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">WS2.10 Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">builds word families in preparation for writing // ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">uses correct punctuation in published version of own writing // <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">WS2.13 Discusses how own texts are adjusted to relate to different readers, how they develop the subject matter and how they serve a wide variety of purposes. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">understands purpose and stages of the organisation of texts // ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">identifies audience of a text and adjusts writing accordingly. // <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">WS2.14 Discusses how own texts have been structured to achieve their purpose and the grammatical features characteristic of the various text types used. ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">identifies nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in own writing and talks about their function in making meaning // ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">talks about how different types of adjectives have been used to add information in own writing //<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">A selection of travel brochure pages with text covered <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Overhead projector <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Copy of travel page on overhead <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Copy of travel page with adjectives removed on overhead || __<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Introduction: __ <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Place a page from a travel brochure that has a description about the place and an image onto an overhead projector. Read the description aloud to the class. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Ask the students what the description made them feel – would they want to visit that place? What type of language was used to make them feel that way? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Refer students to the posters on the wall that show what makes up a description (Subject, details, evaluation, summary) and the language features (describing, classifying, comparing, numbering adjectives; noun groups; relating verbs). <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Ask students to find those parts of the description in the one on the OHP – provide them with a pen to mark it with. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Place up an overhead of a page from the travel brochure that has a description of a place with the adjectives removed. Read aloud to the class. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Ask students what effect removing the adjectives had on the description. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Ask students to add some suitable adjectives to the piece. Write these on the board for later referral. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Inform students that they will be creating their own description about the place/site that they researched in pairs in the last lesson. Remind students of the key grammatical features that make up a description, and to think about how the adjectives were used in the previous examples to evoke a particular feeling for the reader. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> || __<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Main Body: __<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> || <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Students will get into the pairs from the previous lesson. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Students will collect a page from a travel brochure from the teacher with the text removed, preferably of the place/site they researched last lesson. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Students will return to their desks and jointly construct a description about the site/place they have that would make someone want to visit that place. Students will use the pictures on the page to assist them. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Students may use the word bank created on the board from the introduction to guide them, or the dictionary/thesaurus. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Students will concentrate on using a variety of adjectives in order to make the description appealing to the reader. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Students will share their description with the neighbouring pair when they are finished. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> |||| <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Provide students with a page from a travel brochure with the text covered. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Move around the room, assisting students where required. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Remind students to use the various types of adjectives found in descriptions. || __<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Conclusion: __<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Once all the students are finished, gather everyone together on the floor. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Ask student pairs to read their descriptions to the class, showing the page of the travel brochure as well. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Discuss with the class each pair’s description, and the grammatical features that made their description evoke a particular feeling from the listener. || <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Collect students’ descriptions to see whether they are effectively able to use the grammatical features of a description to evoke feeling.
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Our Australia Adventure **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> ||||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Curriculum Link: **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">HSIE ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Yr Level: **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Yr 4 (Stage 2) ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Number: **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> 6 of 10 ||||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Topic: **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Focus on written grammar (writing descriptions) ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Learning Area(s): **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> HSIE/English ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Aim: **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Through exploration of travel brochures students will experiment with writing descriptions of places in Australia as if writing for a travel brochure, focussing on the grammatical features of descriptions (i.e. adjectives to evoke feeling). This will assist students with the written component of their final assignment. ||
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 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">HSIE **
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Aim: **<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Through exploration of travel brochures students will experiment with writing descriptions of places in Australia as if writing for a travel brochure, focussing on the grammatical features of descriptions (i.e. adjectives to evoke feeling). This will assist students with the written component of their final assignment. ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Syllabus Outcomes and Indicators: **
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 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Outline ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Students will … ** ||||
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Make notes on student contribution to class discussion on descriptions. || <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">For fast finishers, students can choose another page from a travel brochure and write another description about that, or they may wish to write a description that makes the destination sound unappealing. || <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Were students engaged in the lesson? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Did students understand the main grammar structure of a description? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Was the timing given to each section sufficient for students learning? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Did the lesson cater for all students’ needs and abilities? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Were the aims of the lesson made clear to the students? ||
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