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Teacher Notes

-Writing-

Term 4

Room 10, H West

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Lesson Name: Recount Writing		Date: Week 1	Curriculum Level: 1-3
Purpose: Focus on editing work. Focus on ensuring a variety of sentence types. Understand recount writing. WALT: Add supporting details and ideas to our writing. Write a range of correct sentence types.		Achievement Objective: Adds or changes details and comments to support ideas, showing some selectivity in the process. Uses a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths.
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Introduction of Lesson:	Give children a very simple recount. Get them to edit it to make it more detailed by adding ideas and using a range of sentence types.
Writing time and prompts	Writing task (MONDAY) Step through the first few sections of this task as a class. Send children off to re-write the recount with more detail. Recount (TUESDAY-FRIDAY) Prompts Children to choose a prompt to write a recount Template

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Lesson Name: I vs. Me		Date: Week 2	Curriculum Level: 1-3
Purpose: Recent writing test showed a need across the class for learning around when to use ‘I’ and when to use ‘me’. WALT: know when to use ‘I’ and when to use ‘me’		Achievement Objective : Language features (L3) “Uses a range of text conventions, including most grammatical conventions, appropriately and with increasing accuracy.”
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Writing time and prompts	Paint a scenario. Objects on the table. Ask children (either individually or in pairs) to go and collect an object. When they retrieve the item, ask them to state how they would explain their action to their peers: “I collected the hat” OR “My friend and I collected the hat” “The hat looked great on me” OR “The hat looked great on me and my friend” Pull some examples from recent writing. Get children to correct each of the examples on slides.	Character development: Discuss how characters/people are all different - develop knowledge from what we discussed last week - body language/facial expressions, looks, movement etc.

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Lesson Name: Animation voice over		Date: Week 3	Curriculum Level: 1-3
Purpose: Write a voice over for your animation WALT connect oral (spoken) language, written language, and visual language through an animation. WALT write a text which can be turned into a voice over - think about what information we include, and the language we use.		Achievement Objective:
Resources needed:	Completed animation Animation Planner Recording gear Elements of drama slides
Introduction of Lesson:	Share some animations so far (without the voice over). Discuss what could be included in our animation. Link to elements of drama which we have learned about this term.
Writing time and prompts	Work through the plan together. Give children 10 minutes to plan for their voice over. This should not take long as most will be copied and pasted from their animation planner. Write an introduction together with one group. Send the others off to write their introduction independently. Come back to the mat and share the introductions. Scaffold the first emotion. Tell the audience what the emotion is. Explain what the actor is doing to show this emotion. Why is he/she feeling this emotion? Discuss how this emotion might make other characters feel.

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Lesson Name: Dear future teacher		Date: Week 4	Curriculum Level: 1-3
Purpose: To learn a basic letter writing format To organise ideas into paragraphs WALT Write a letter Organise ideas into paragraphs:		Achievement Objective:
Resources needed:	Planning and writing doc
Introduction of Lesson:	Why might we write a letter? (think about purpose) What sort of things might we want to tell our teacher for next year?
Writing time and prompts	Class brainstorm - ideas we may include in our letter - academic, personal, home life, cultural, challenges, hobbies, personality, strengths, Plan for your writing - choose which categories you would like to tell your teacher about. Write - remember that each new idea should be a new paragraph. Work with a buddy to plan how you will organise your writing.	Peer edit - focus on the organisation of ideas

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Lesson Name:		Date: Week 5	Curriculum Level: 1-3
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Lesson Name:		Date: Week 7	Curriculum Level: 1-3
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Lesson Name:		Date: Week 8	Curriculum Level: 1-3
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Lesson Name:		Date: Week 9	Curriculum Level: 1-3
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