Stage 2 Framework for Learning from Home

Learning and Support / Supplementary Language Activities – Week 3 & 4

Week 3 Resources linked to: Geography unit - Places are Similar and Different with focus on Australia

Task: Suggested supplementary activity:

Spelling Peg spelling – Colonisation Unit 2, page 1 (see attachment)

Reading Bronwyn Bancroft - Why I love Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3LFPRQ3Yus Jeannie Baker - Where the Forest Meets the Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHb_WEA50yo Penny Matthews and Andrew McLean – A Year on Our Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co9MyotFn4c

Writing – Visualisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7Mz7Qi4x0 https://revesby-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/r/revesby-p/localcontent/visualising.jpg

Writing – Persuasive Text

O.R.E.O – Persuasive writing formula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTWXWVvSpa0&t=73s Growing your own fruits and vegetables positives and negatives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m3ZwsJ8KPg https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-27/gardening-growing-food-vegetables-backyard-personal-finance/11811980

Writing – Character Profile

Get to know your character (see attachment)

Writing – Acrostic Poem

How to write an acrostic poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVOeA7aqM0

Writing - Letters (see attachment – Formal letter template)

Peg Spelling – Colonisation Unit 2, Page 1

Writing a Character Profile template

Writing a formal letter template

Stage 2 Framework for Learning from Home

Learning and Support / Supplementary Language Activities – Week 3 & 4

Week 4 Resources linked to Geography unit - Places are Similar and Different with focus on Australia Science unit – Heat and Light

Task: Suggested supplementary activity:

Spelling

Peg spelling – Colonisation Unit 2, page 2 (see attachment)

Reading

Alison Lester – Are We There Yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-SAG1tdhg Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins – My Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs14IA8sV8g Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins – My Place http://nadiawheatley.com/my-place

Writing - Reading response

Responding to a text: https://www.literacyideas.com/text-response Story elements template (see attachment)

Writing - Imaginative text

Brainstorming (Setting, characters) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJULQ0xBHFs Planning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAVW3b7E0TI

Literacy – Editing Character comparison

Things to remember when editing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XllbZizpTk What is a character? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhOBuYQJPEY Character traits – Ways to describe you and/or your character: https://teachingmadepractical.com/character-traits-list/ What is a Venn Diagram? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkV_uRErIqk How to compare and contrast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KIAmHc3Ts

Writing – Book review

https://www.literacyideas.com/how-to-write-a-great-book-review

Reading response – Story elements template

Peg Spelling – Colonisation Unit 2, page 2