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Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase (ACELA1516)

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  • identify and appreciate differences in language used in diverse family settings
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  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
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Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

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A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...

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Rainforest: make a walking track

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Mark the route for a walking track on a map of a rainforest. Choose a section of track based on instructions about distances, compass directions and grid references. Keep adding sections of track to get to the rest house. As you go, look up the meaning of tricky words.

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Robots: make a catalogue

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Explore facts about a robot designed to enter dangerous situations. Choose parts to build a companion robot and an underwater robot. Use a model text structure and images to build explanations about the features of each robot. Choose titles, words and images that suit your audience and support your message. For example, ...

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BBC Skillswise: pin bored punctuation - activity

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This is a game about punctuation for the end of sentences. In the game students select full stops, exclamation marks or question marks to complete a series of sentences correctly. Basic advice about the use of end punctuation is available from a short 'Help' screen. Students receive simple right/wrong feedback with correct ...

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Beach safety: video campaign

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Look at the importance of water safety and skin protection at a beach. Talk with a lifeguard and beach goers about safety tips. Build a video for a public awareness campaign. Choose animated clips to illustrate responsible behaviour. Examine differences between formal and informal language. Select text for the script that ...

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Starting Smart: enterprising advertisers: persuade and inform

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This curriculum package provides teachers of students in years 4-6 with background information, lesson plans, activities and resources for a ten-week unit of work on persuasive texts, specifically advertisements. The lessons model a range of teaching and learning strategies to explore the purpose, organisation, language ...

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Primary English: models and modelling

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These seven learning activities, which focus on 'modelling texts' 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 are provided with guidance about ...

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Sah-winnng into performance poetry!

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Watch performance poet Komninos presenting some poems to school students and talking about his poetry. Find out what the students think make Komninos's poems different from poems they've met before. Discover a quick and easy way to start writing poems based directly on your own experience.

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Aussie English for the beginner

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This interactive resource allows students to explore the origins and meanings of common Australian words and idioms and to test their knowledge of Australian English. The definitions are provided by the Australian National Dictionary Centre and the cartoons are by David Pope.

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Starting Smart: dramatic recyclers: entertain, explain and inform

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This curriculum package provides teachers with background information, lesson plans, activities and resources for a ten-week unit of work. Designed for students in years 4-6, the unit looks at how writing scripts and performing and recording plays can draw together the purposes of entertainment, explanation and informational ...

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Public speaking

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How do you feel about making a speech in public? If you think it's pretty scary you're not alone. Find out ways to make speaking in public easier. See how some students have gone about it, using the movie 'The King's Speech' as inspiration.

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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 5 and Year 6 English

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This unit of work focuses on the influences that impact on safe behaviours in and around tracks, platforms and trains. Guided activities build students' rail safety vocabulary including grammar and word building. Modelled writing activities support students to shape a research-based inquiry investigating factors that impact ...

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Starting Smart: energy informers: inform and explain

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This curriculum package provides teachers of students in years 4-7 with background information, lesson plans, activities and resources for a ten-week unit of work on factual texts. The lessons model a range of teaching and learning strategies to explore the purpose, organisation, language structures, features and techniques ...

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Sports broadcasting

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The teacher, who is a member of the school's Professional Learning Team supports individual teachers at her school who are grouped according to experience and need in the area of information and communication technology (ICT). She provides support by responding to a teacher's particular curriculum needs, modeling for the ...

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My Place - Episode 8: 1938: Colum, Punting

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Colum and Thommo are collecting bets from their neighbours on horses in the 1938 Melbourne Cup. They present these bets to Mr O'Sullivan, the local shopkeeper. Colum and Thommo hope to win big in order to save Thommo's family from eviction.

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