A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how word choice can be used to strengthen an opinion.
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A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how word choice can be used to strengthen an opinion.
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Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable waysElaborationsdiscussing and comparing the purposes of familiar texts drawn from local contexts and interests (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)becoming f...
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purposeElaborationsidentifying the topic and type of a text through its visual presentation, for example cover design, packa...
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purposeElaborationsinterpreting new terminology drawing on prior knowledge, analogies and connec...
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
Explore how types of texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Identify how different types of texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
Apply learnt vocabulary and begin to make conscious choices to suit the topic
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

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