English / Year 4 / Language / Text structure and organisation

• TLF-IDM020852

In ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching Advertising detectives students will become detectives in a bid to help solve an alarming case of advertisements influencing children to buy or want a product. Students will investigate the different gimmicks/tricks used in advertising, how they target children and how their effect can be minimised. ...

• 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-IDS4962

These seven learning activities, which focus on 'representations' using a variety of tools (software) and devices (hardware), illustrate the ways in which content, pedagogy and technology can be successfully and effectively integrated in order to promote learning. In the activities, teachers expose students to a wide range ...

• TLF-IDR8895

This clip shows an animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Jelly featuring the cartoon character Bertie the Jet. Bertie competes in an international jet aeroplane race, the 'Popularity Cup' and although he misses the start of the race he wins in the end. Bertie then sings the famous Aeroplane Jelly song to the jubilant ...

• TLF-IDL1281

Watch a short cartoon about a close encounter with an alien spaceship. Select language elements to create sentences and build a basic factual recount. Rearrange the elements to create the best word order in the sentences. Who was involved? What did they do? When, where or how did they do it? Add adverbs and adjectives to ...

• TLF-IDM016160

A web page with information, teacher guides and resources on responding to texts. This resource supports the NSW English K-10 syllabus.

• TLF-IDM014029

This is a detailed resource book that supports teachers in their teaching of reading. Part of the internationally recognised ‘First Steps’ literacy program and a companion resource for the ‘Reading map of development’, its focus is on reading processes, strategies and conventions, and the contexts associated with comprehending ...

• TLF-IDM011547

This is an interactive resource that uses different forms of texts to explore environmental and sustainability issues. It has sections on recycling and reuse, the negative consequences of global warming, reducing human impact on the Earth and caring for the Earth for future generations. It uses the 'The tomorrow book' by ...

• TLF-IDM014024

This is a comprehensive description of six phases in student development of the viewing mode - beginning, early, exploratory, consolidating, proficient and advanced. Part of the internationally recognised ‘First Steps’ literacy program and intended to help teachers map students’ progress in viewing, the resource emphasises ...

• TLF-IDM014028

This is a description of seven phases in students’ reading development - role-play, experimental, early, transitional, conventional, proficient and accomplished - supported by suggestions for teaching and learning experiences to enhance reading development. Part of the internationally recognised ‘First Steps’ literacy program, ...