English / Year 1 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

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How is colour used to build the story? How does light create mood? How do animators use colour and light together to create rich screen content we want to watch? Students in Foundation – Year 2 consider the decisions that were made to create stories that build happy, scary, funny, or sad moments.

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This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 1 English. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation of ...

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This practice guide offers an overview of essential punctuation for writing across primary and secondary school. While an effective combination of sentence types adds depth and variety to a piece of writing, correct punctuation is equally vital for clarity and coherence. This guide aims to provide clear examples to support ...

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Design a talking dinosaur to present at show and tell. Create your dinosaur by selecting from a range of elements such as mood, size and colour. Choose a voice and background picture for your dinosaur. Decide on a name that suits your talking dinosaur. Add a note about your dinosaur. Watch the animation. You can change ...

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Design a talking cat to present at show and tell. Create your cat by selecting from a range of elements such as mood, size and colour. Choose a voice and background picture for your cat. Decide on a name that suits your talking cat. Add a note about your cat. Watch the animation. You can change your design as many times ...

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The Exquisite Corpse is similar in style to the old game of Consequences. In the game, each player adds on a new word, folds over a piece of paper to hide the word and passes the paper on. The simple formula of adjective, noun, verb, preposition, adjective, noun will produce something approximating a sentence which can ...

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Give students tips about some of the key ingredients of writing a suspenseful, scary story. This tip sheet provides a range of ideas suitable for the skills and abilities of different year levels. It also includes some teaching strategies.

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This video (12 mins 21 seconds) provides a demonstration of how to teach a morphology lesson for adding the -s suffix to create plural nouns.

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This short video (4 mins 11 seconds) provides an introduction to teaching syllable types as part of systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) instruction.

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This video (10 mins 17 seconds) provides a demonstration of how to teach a morphology lesson for adding the -ing suffix when doubling the final consonant.