Learning content: draw on experiences, knowledge of the topic or context to work out the meaning of unknown words and to improve understanding of the text 

Do you know where your parents were born and grew up?

Were you born in Australia, or did you or someone else in your family move to this country from somewhere else?

Our book this week is about another child who was born in a poor country, and how his family tried to make a better life for themselves.

Your teacher will share the book The Little Refugee with you.  Just like our last story, this book was first written for adults and called The Happiest Refugee, and then it was re-written for children.

Objective: Learn the meaning of new words, which improves our understanding of texts and so that we can eventually use these words in our own writing.

Gratitude - to be thankful

Approach - to move towards something, or to start something

Function - a function is a formal or official ceremony or program.

Drenched - something that is drenched is soaking wet.

Now complete your vocabulary sheet and glue it into your book.

Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

Identify and colour code the nouns, verbs adjectives and adverbs in the sentence below. 

Try to improve the sentence by adding WOW words.

Then try to write a sentence following a similar pattern for some writing of your own.

I was one of the worst students, and I felt so shy, lost in an ocean of loneliness.

Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

Adverbs tell us how, when or where actions happen - they describe the verbs/action words.  They help to make our writing more interesting.

Try to find some adverbs in one of the books you are reading.  Then complete the task below.

Learning objective: to explore forming letters in such as way as to prepare for cursive/running writing later in the year

Catch up on any pages in your Handwriting Conventions book that are not finished.

Dynamic Dialogue lesson for Informative Texts

TOP TIP

Writers often quote an expert in a report, news account or explanation.  

The best writers use these short pieces of dialogue to add reliable information to paragraphs in their text.

Action Activity:

1. Get with your Australia's Neighbours Research Writing group and pick ONE of the following topics:

• Volcanos

• Antarctica

• Mountains

• Blue-ringed Octopuses

• What our town looked like a long time ago.

• How students got to school before cars and buses were invented.

• Celebrations.

• The Darkinjung Aboriginal people from our area.

2. Once you've decided on a topic:

Brainstorm TWO expert people who might know a lot about this topic. 

E.g. on the topic of Spiders, you could ask: 

• A biologist; 

• An insect specialist in a museum; 

3. Choose ONE of those experts then write down 2 questions you might ask them:

E.g. you may ask a biologist these questions about a spider:

• What body parts do spiders have?

• Are all spiders venomous?

4. Choose ONE of the questions and then search up how the expert would answer that question:

E.g. On Kiddle.co I typed in the search box:  What do biologists say about spider venom?

                                                                                          Click on the link to see what quote is in the heading! 

Now you use Kiddle.co or Kidrex to type in a question about what an expert would say then write down a quote you may find.  

5. Back together as a class or with another group, share the following from your group:

• the topic you chose

• the expert you chose

• the question you wanted to ask

• what quotation you found.

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