| Talking & Listening |
Attempts to explain how to why things happen and/or work
Retells an explanation using appropriate word order
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Groups information logically in an oral explanation
Articulates words when participating in a class discussion
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Understands the need to supply reasons when giving an explanation to tell how or why something occurs
Supports reasons with factual information
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Rehearses and modifies and explanation before presenting it to peers or the class
Speaks clearly and with articulation
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| Reading & Comprehension |
Summarising - learners identify and accumulate the most important ideas and restate them in their own words
Identifies the purpose of a factual text
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Summarising - learners identify and accumulate the most important ideas and restate them in their own words
Distinguishes between fact and opinion
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Summarising - learners identify and accumulate the most important ideas and restate them in their own words
Identifies quoted and reported speech and discusses its use
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Summarising - learners identify and accumulate the most important ideas and restate them in their own words
Adjusts reading strategies by scanning information in explanations
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| Writing |
Guided writing of an explanation
Recognises a simple explanation text
Recognises texts can be produced using a range of media
Recognises texts are produced for a variety of audiences
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Independent writing of explanation
Discusses function of different parts of stages of an explanation
Puts summary of chosen explanation into own writing
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Independent writing of explanation
Uses other texts as models for aspects of writing own explanations, such as text organisation, grouping of information under headings
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Independent writing of explanation
Writings explanations that are sequential, causal
Chooses appropriate graphics and adds to text where relevant
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| Grammar |
Compound words
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Compound words
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Compound words
Prefixes
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Compound words
Prefixes
Word origins
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| Spelling & Sounds |
e, oo, ow
Breaks words into syllables and recognises every syllable has a vowel
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Sounds -
ie, oo, ow
Spelling rule -
%u2018t%u2019 is used instead of %u2018ed%u2019 when writing the past tense of some words, eg. sweep - swept
keep - kept
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Spelling rule -
In some words, instead of adding 'ed' for the past tense, a change is made in the spelling of the word, eg. lead, led; take, took; buy, bought
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Spelling rule -
In some words, instead of adding 'ed' for the past tense, a change is made in the spelling of the word, eg. lead, led; take, took; buy, bought
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| Handwriting |
ie, oo
Start from the top of every upper case letter, lower case letter and number, except 'd' and 'e' (which start at the middle) and know that no letters starts at the bottom
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ie, oo
Start from the top of every upper case letter, lower case letter and number, except 'd' and 'e' (which start at the middle) and know that no letters starts at the bottom
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Joining to and from small letters
c - ace, fc, yc, act
d - add, yd, den, dim, dt
e - net, ten, fen, ye, ee
Consistent and correct letter formation in NSW foundation style print
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Joining to and from small letters
c - ace, fc, yc, act
d - add, yd, den, dim, dt
e - net, ten, fen, ye, ee
Consistent and correct letter formation in NSW foundation style print
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