| Talking & Listening |
Talks to whole class about a factual topic
Practises clear articulation
Listens while others present and asks relevant questions
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Talks to whole class about a factual topic
Attempts to use suitable, subject specific vocabulary for a topic
Identifies language used to describe
Recognises familiar objects of people from a description
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Plans, rehearses and modifies a spoken information report before presenting it to peers, eg. reorder descriptions, changes general statements
Is aware how gesture and facial expression may show interest or lack of, on the part of the listener and how this may change between cultures
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Plans, rehearses and modifies a spoken information report before presenting it t peers, eg. reorders descriptions, changes general statement
Uses quotations, similes and technical vocabulary to enhance communication
Listens to an oral presentation and summarises main points
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| Reading & Comprehension |
Predict topic of information report texts by looking at title, cover and illustrations
Record predictions to use as a resource during shared reading of text
Compare predictions to actual text
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Summarises main ideas and significant details from reading or listening to a text
Interprets information from text
Uses variety of reading strategies to identify unknown words
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Identify technical terms in texts
Summarises main ideas and significant details from reading or listening to a text
Uses variety of reading strategies to identify technical language
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Identify technical terms in texts
Summarises main ideas and significant details from reading or listening to a text using technical language
Uses variety of reading strategies to identify technical language
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| Writing |
Jointly construct information report
Self corrects work that does not look right
Consistently writes from left to right of page using letters of similar size
Consistently comes down to a new line at appropriate time when writing
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Independent writing of an information report
Assessment task - Work Sample
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Independent writing of an information report
Assessment task - Work Sample
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Independent writing, editing and publishing of an information report
Assessment task - Work Sample
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| Grammar |
Understand what name/label means
Writing longer sentences grammatically correct
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Abbreviation
Apostrophe
Parentheses
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Abbreviation
Apostrophe
Parentheses
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Abbreviation
Apostrophe
Parentheses
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| Spelling & Sounds |
Sounds -
are, ear
Spelling -
Finding little words in big words
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Sounds -
are, ear
Spelling rule -
When a word ends in a vowel and a - 'y' (ay, ey, oy) just add the ending, eg. stay, stayed, staying; key, keys; toy, toys
Finding little words in big words
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Spelling rule -
To add - 'able' as a suffix to a root word, drop the 'e', eg. note, notable; desire, desirable
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Spelling rule -
To add - 'able' as a suffix to a root word, drop the 'e', eg. note, notable; desire, desirable
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| Handwriting |
are, ear
Types simple sentences
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are, ear
Types texts
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Optional joins for common letter clusters
Digraphs
ar, ee, er, or, ch
Touch types texts
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Optional joins for common letter clusters
Digraphs
ar, ee, er, or, ch
Touch types texts
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