A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how word choice can be used to strengthen an opinion.
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Strong Words Make Strong Opinions
60 mins
| Suitable for years:
1 - 2
Curriculum
AC9E1LA03
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
AC9E2LA03
Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
AC9E2LA09
Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
ACELA1447
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...
ACELA1463
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...
ACELA1470
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...
EN1-9B
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
VCELA176
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
VCELA212
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose
VCELA237
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 purpose
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