Lesson Plan

Modelled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth

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60 mins | Suitable for years: 1 - 2

A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.

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Curriculum

  • VC2E1LY01

    Use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the read or spoken contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions <ul> <li>using turn-taking in group and pair work</li> <li>building a conversation by staying on topic, supporting other speakers, eliciting responses, listening supportively and attentively, asking relevant questions, providing useful feedback and prompting</li> <li>participating in informal and structured class, group and pair discussions about content area topics, ideas and information</li> <li>interacting appropriately with peers, teachers and visitors</li> <li>formulating different types of questions to ask a speaker or someone reading aloud, such as open and closed questions and ‘when’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions</li> </ul>

  • VC2E1LY13

    Create short narrative and informative texts, written and spoken, on personal and learnt topics, including using some topic-specific vocabulary, appropriate multimodal elements, and a structure with an opening, middle and conclusion <ul> <li>applying emerging knowledge of text structure and grammar when creating text</li> <li>using learning area vocabulary when creating text</li> <li>creating digital images and composing a story or information sequence on-screen using images and captions</li> </ul>

  • VC2E1LY14

    Re-read their own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation <ul> <li>adding or deleting words on a page or screen to improve meaning; for example, adding an adjective to add meaning to a noun</li> <li>beginning to use dictionaries and resources to check and correct spelling</li> <li>identifying words that might not be spelt correctly</li> </ul>

  • VC2E2LY01

    Use interaction skills when engaging with topics and texts, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending their own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions <ul> <li>exploring ways to comment on what others say, including using sentence starters such as ‘I like the way you …’, ‘I agree that …’, ‘I have a different thought …’, and ‘I’d like to say something different …’</li> <li>demonstrating appropriate listening behaviours, responding to and paraphrasing a partner’s contribution to a discussion, for example in think-pair-share activities</li> <li>asking relevant questions and making connections with personal experiences and the contributions of others</li> <li>understanding how to disagree or respectfully offer an alternative</li> </ul>

  • VC2E2LY11

    Create short narrative, informative and persuasive texts for familiar audiences using simple text structures, topic-specific vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate <ul> <li>creating texts so that readers and/or audiences follow the sequence of ideas or events, using vocabulary (including topic-specific vocabulary) appropriate for the purpose</li> <li>using digital tools to create texts</li> <li>using simple and compound sentences correctly and flexibly to express and combine ideas</li> </ul>

  • VC2E2LY12

    Re-read and edit texts for spelling, sentence boundary punctuation and text structure <ul> <li>reviewing and developing sentences; for example, adding prepositional phrases such as ‘with a long tail’ to improve descriptions</li> <li>editing by adding, deleting or changing vocabulary to improve a text; for example, replacing an everyday noun with a topic-specific one</li> <li>reviewing sentences for grammatical accuracy, for example use of pronouns</li> </ul>

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