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Developing Persuasive Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the genre of persuasion; specifically, how to write a well-structured persuasive text.
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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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Informative Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of informative texts.
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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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Tell Me A Story
A 60 minute lesson designed to introduce the narrative text type using familiar stories.
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Informative Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of informative texts.
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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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Modelled Writing - Improving Procedure Texts
A 60 minute lesson in which students will improve a procedure text by applying knowledge of procedure text structure and language features.
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Building a Description Using Facts
A 60 minute lesson in which students will build a description of an animal, person or object using facts.
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Using A Fact File - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use a fact file and scaffolding sheet to write an informative text in pairs.
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What is Poetry?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a definition of poetry.
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Narrative Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of narrative texts.
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Procedure Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of procedure texts.
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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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Introducing Persuasive Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how persuasive devices can be used to strengthen a point of view.
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Persuasive Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of persuasive texts.
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How Do You Do It?
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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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Procedure Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of procedure texts.
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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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Questioning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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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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Persuasive Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of persuasive texts.
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Purpose, Audience and Context
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the purpose, intended audience and subject matter of a poem.
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Narrative Features - Developing a Plot
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a plot for a narrative which includes a setting, characters and a problem to be solved.
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Exploring Descriptive Language in Context
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore how descriptive language in used in narrative texts.
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Applying Proofreading and Editing Skills
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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Applying Proofreading and Editing Skills
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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Face the Facts!
A 60 minute lesson designed to introduce the purpose and types of informative texts.
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Applying Proofreading and Editing Skills
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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Shared Writing - How Do You Make It?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write a procedure text in pairs explaining how to make something.
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Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.