English

Term 1 Week 9

English Resource Pack

The following link has all the worksheets you need to complete this week's activities for English.

Familiar reading

Using familiar texts;

  • Read to a friend

  • Read to a book buddy

  • Film yourself on an ipad (Change focus eg fluency and phrasing or reading to punctuation)

  • Checklist bookmark (Who, What, Where, When and Why)

  • Pretend you are a teacher and read to a group.

  • Book Review: Pick a recent text you have read and then complete the book review template

  • Read a book to a family member

Spelling focus

Soudwaves program Students enter this code girl344 at www.soundwaveskids.com.au Unit 8 ‘f for fish, ff for cliff, ph for phone’

Unit

Activity 1:

Brainstorm

Brainstorm all the words you can think of that have the ‘f, ff, ph’ sound in them. Remember to look around your environment for words and to find words with the sound in the beginning, middle and end of the word.

Activity 2:

Look, Cover, Say, Write, Check (LCSWC)

Use the Soundwaves link to see your list words for this week. Ask someone to test you each day.


Activity 3:

Segment your list words

Use the segmenting tool on Soundwaves Online to segment your list words.

Activity 4:

Complete the interactive games on Soundwaves.


Grammar focus Nun groups and nouns

Nouns are words that name people, places, things, ideas and states of being. Certain nouns refer to things that are able to be counted for example, ten toys. Some nouns refer to uncountable things, for example, air, research, happiness, snow, hair, traffic and so on. There are different types of nouns:

  • common nouns (the vast majority) are the names of classes of things and begin with a lower-case letter, for example, boy, girl, name, verb, biography, computer.

  • proper nouns name specific people, places, things and acronyms and begin with a capital letter, for example, Cathy Freeman, Sydney Harbour, Olympic Games.

  • abstract nouns name concepts or things that cannot be seen, for example, democracy, hate, joy, honesty, hypothesis.

  • collective nouns name groups of things, for example, team, family, committee, flock, bunch.

  • mass nouns name things that you cannot count, for example, gold, milk, sunshine, furniture, traffic, information.

Noun groups

A noun group is a group of words relating to, or building on, a noun. Noun groups usually consist of a pointer (the, a, an, this, that, these, those, my, your, his, her, its, our, mum‘s, Mr Smith’s) plus one or more adjectives or adverbs and are an important language resource for building up descriptions. These should be taught to be seen as a chunk of information rather than a list or string of individual words. In factual texts, noun groups contain the ‘content’ across key learning areas. In literary texts they develop creative expression, important for building the story world, characterisation and imagery.

The dry, windswept, desert region has an extremely low level of rainfall. (Noun groups both before – pre-modifiers, and after the noun – post-modifier, need to be explored).

Noun groups can also have adjectival phrases or adjectival clauses embedded in them:

  • the regions with low rainfalls are uninhabited. ('with low rainfalls' is an adjectival phrase).

  • the regions which have higher rainfalls are inhabited. ('which have higher rainfalls' is an adjectival clause).

View noun groups on YouTube.


Writing focus: Persuasive writing

Activity 1

Students research, plan, draft and write a discussion on a topic of their choice. They produce a hand-written draft, and then a final draft is published using a computer. Choose a highly debated topic and write a persuasive text. You may like to use the scaffold and topic “Movies Are More Enjoyable Than Books” provided.

Remember to use persuasive language such as rhetorical questions, modal words, emotive language, connectives, exaggeration etc

Context

Students have explored how language is a powerful tool for expressing a point of view. They have deconstructed and analysed the language features of a variety of persuasive texts. Students have participated in a number of discussions on a range of topics to practise expressing a point of view with justification. They were asked to apply their understanding of persuasive techniques to compose a text on a topic that they felt strongly about.

Activity 2:

Editing Task: Complete the editing task “Dreaming” and use your best handwriting.