Literacy
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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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Experimenting with Poetry Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
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Writing Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
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Writing Narrative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the narrative text type; specifically, how to write an engaging narrative text.
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Writing Persuasive Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the genre of persuasion; specifically, how to write an effective persuasive text.
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Introduction to Historical Recounts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
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Writing a Narrative - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a narrative, using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Assessment - Experimenting with Poetry
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of poetry by writing an ode and a ballad.
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Descriptive Poetry - Odes
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write an ode.
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Humorous Poetry - Limericks
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a limerick.
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Concrete Poetry - Shape Poems
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a shape poem.
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Independent Writing - Amazing Achievements
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a historical recount using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Idioms
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some commonly used idioms.
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Figurative Language
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate figurative language in poetry.
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Shared Writing - Incredible Inventions
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a historical recount about the development of a famous invention in pairs.
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Sound Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate sound devices in poetry.
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Structure, Rhyme and Rhythm
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate structure, rhyme and rhythm in poetry.
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Research and Note Taking - Exciting Expeditions
A 60 minute lesson in which students will research and take notes about an exciting expedition in history.
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Elements of Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the common elements found in poetry.
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The Poet's Lament
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore their preconceived ideas and attitudes towards poetry.
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Poetry Defined
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of what constitutes poetry.
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Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 8: Process of Elimination
It's getting closer now - the Adventure Agents are closing in of the thief. They now need to write a persuasive piece in order to get a warrant. Time is of the essence!
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 7: Time for the Truth!
The truth comes out in this chapter and the Adventure Agents are able to start using all the information they have collected over the previous chapters to start eliminating some suspects.
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 6: Evidence and Opportunity
The Adventure Agents will begin bringing all the information from the witnesses and evidence together to start forming a picture of what happened on the night the Mona Lisa was stolen.
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 5: More Questions and Answers
This chapter provides the Adventure Agents with the two remaining police interview transcripts and an extra very important piece of evidence has just been discovered!
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 4: Questions and Answers
This chapter of the exciting Missing Mona Lisa Adventure provides the Adventure Agents with three police interviews from the five main suspects. What extra clues will they provide to help find the thief?
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 3: The Evidence Piles Up!
Chapter 3 introduces the Adventure Agents to the evidence collected so far and requires them to write a newspaper report informing the public that the 'Mona Lisa' has been stolen.
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The Missing Mona Lisa - Chapter 2: I Saw You!
Now it's time for the Adventure Agents to learn some of the main characters and look at their witness statements. They will have the first pieces of this fun puzzle!
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The Famous Faces of Yesteryear – Interviewer Skills Video
Teach your students how to interview someone with this engaging video exploring the life of Sir Edmund Hillary.
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A Thinker Like Me – Animated Poem Video
Use this short animated poem video with your students to explore and appreciate the poem, 'A Thinker Like Me' by Stephanie Mulrooney.