English / Year 3 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

• TLF-IDL6185

Help a publishing director create a bestselling horror story. Read the story. Choose effective verbs and adverbs to increase the impact of the story by making it scarier. Select illustrations that highlight the horror of the events.

• TLF-IDM025086

This unit of work focuses on behaviour in and around tracks and rail infrastructure. Activities build subject-specific vocabulary and understanding of procedural text structures. Guided writing activities support students to develop a series of track safe procedures while a slogan writing activity focuses on effective ways ...

• TLF-IDM012165

This is an activity about the verb 'to do'. The user selects the correct form of 'to do' to complete a series of sentences. Immediate right-wrong feedback is given, and when the sentence is correctly completed it is read aloud. The activity links to a list of six verb forms, all of which include a modal verb and a participle. ...

• TLF-IDL9681

Test your ability to create lively sentences by selecting the most appropriate words. For example, view animations of a rocket and an astronaut. Next, add appropriate adjectives and adverbs to two simple sentences about them to make the sentences more lively. Select a suitable connecting word or phrase to join your two ...

• TLF-IDM013976

This is a resource for instructional leaders and teachers containing video vignettes and supporting text that demonstrate differentiation and explicit teaching of the Australian Curriculum: English in the areas of reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar across a range of classrooms from Foundation to year 10. The vignettes ...

• TLF-IDL9680

Test your ability to create lively sentences by selecting the most appropriate words. For example, view animations of a boy and a girl on the beach. Next, add appropriate adjectives and adverbs to two simple sentences about them to make the sentences more lively. Select a suitable connecting word or phrase to join your ...

• TLF-IDR11585

In this unit of work students read different versions of popular stories and gain an understanding of how a story can be told from different points of view. They develop character profiles and a digital story based on one of the stories.

• TLF-IDR11578

This unit of work explores elements of narrative in the context of a particular type of narrative, the adventure story. The unit is designed to help students understand the purpose of adventure stories, the narrative structure onto which the writer builds events, characters and setting, and how writers engage readers. Students ...

• TLF-IDM009212

This curriculum resource package provides teachers with background information, lesson plans, activities and resources for a ten-week unit of work. The focus is on developing and extending students’ knowledge and understandings of texts that inform and persuade. The seven lesson plans model a range of literacy teaching ...

• TLF-IDM013346

This is a resource for instructional leaders and teachers that contains a video vignette and supporting text on using an online text to teach how evaluative language can be made more or less forceful in a year 3 classroom. The teacher uses a range of strategies to differentiate teaching and learning, modelling the use of ...