| Talking & Listening |
Listens to brief concrete descriptions
when listening maintains eye contact if culturally appropriate
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Identifies adjectives used in descriptions
when listening maintains eye contact if culturally appropriate
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Describes characters, objects from stories, film and television narratives
Adjusts speech for formal and informal situations
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Listens to and reads aloud detailed descriptions of a range of settings, people, animals and objects
Adjusts speech for formal and informal situations
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| Reading & Comprehension |
Describes and gives opinions of characters in a variety of literary texts, both written and visual
Assessment task - Benchmark
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Recognises text that describes characters
Recognises how descriptive text appeals to all five senses
Assessment task - Benchmark
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Recognises adjectives and how they are used to provide information about nouns
Relates descriptive text to own experiences
Assessment task - Benchmark
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Comprehends, interprets and responds to a range of detailed printed descriptions
Uses appropriate speech patterns, selectively when reading eg. pause, pitch and emphasis
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| Writing |
Contributes adjectives to add to noun groups in joint construction activities
Read own writing back to teacher or peers
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Model descriptive writing
Understands that adjectives provide more information about nouns
Discusses and demonstrates how a description is built up using adjectives
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Model descriptive writing
Compares the features of two different descriptive texts (factual and literary) and talks about how these differences are related to the purpose
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Model descriptive writing
Prepares lists of words for a particular purpose, eg. to be used in detailed descriptions
Focus on using descriptive and figurative language in own writing
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| Grammar |
Adjectives
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Adjectives
Nouns
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Adjectives
Noun groups
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Adjectives
Noun groups
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| Spelling & Sounds |
ould, ough
Breaks CVC words into sounds
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Sounds -
ould, ough
Spelling rule -
The 'ck' diagraph occurs only after a short vowel sound, eg. pick, lock, cricket
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Spelling rule -
When a word has more than one syllable and the final syllable is not accented, then the final consonant is not doubled before adding a suffix, eg. whisper, whispered,; encounter, encountering
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Spelling rule -
When a word has more than one syllable and the final syllable is not accented, then the final consonant is not doubled before adding a suffix, eg. whisper, whispered,; encounter, encountering
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| Handwriting |
ould
Recognises letters in both lower and upper case
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ould, ough
Recognises letters in both lower and upper case
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Joining to and from small letters
f - aft, off, yf, fey, ff
g - age, tog, gg, gun, gh
h - chin, who, this, yh
Consistent and correct letter formation in NSW Foundation style print
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Joining to and from small letters
f - aft, off, yf, fey, ff
g - age, tog, gg, gun, gh
h - chin, who, this, yh
Consistent and correct letter formation in NSW Foundation style print
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