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Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams
Elaborations
- referring to learned knowledge of text structure and grammar when creating a new text (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- applying new vocabulary appropriately in creating text (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- learning how to plan spoken and written communications so that listeners and readers might follow the sequence of ideas or events (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- beginning to consider audience in designing a communication involving visual components, selecting images for maximum impact (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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Personal Recounts - Modelled Writing
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Personal Recounts - Independent Writing
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Personal Recounts - Shared Writing
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Exploring Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 1 and Year 2
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Exploring Narrative Texts Unit Plan - Year 1 and Year 2
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Writing a Fairy Tale
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What's the Problem?
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Animal Fact Book - Independent Writing
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Animal Information Report - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple information report about an animal in pairs.
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Animal Information Report - Modelled Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple information report about an animal.
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