Lesson+5+of+10+Grammar+in+Writing

“Celebrations” || Curriculum Link: HSIE, English || Year Level: 4 || Areas: HSIE- Cultures English- Grammar || In this lesson students will be looking at the place of adjectives in Information texts. In particular they will look at quantity, factual and classifying adjectives which are a typical and key grammatical feature of this text type. Before this lesson the teacher would have marked the students first drafts of their individual Information reports and would have identified adjectives as an area which the students needed expansion or improvement.The aim of this lesson is so that students are able to identify these kinds of adjectives, understand their meaning and then finally to try to add more adjectives to their individually written information report on their specific celebration. Students will already have been taught previously about the place of adjectives within information reports in previous lessons and would have touched on them in lesson three of this unit of work. They will also have prior knowledge of what the different types of adjectives are e.g. factual, quantity etc. Hopefully this lesson will improve the level of descriptive writing in their reports. ||
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 * Lesson Number: 5/10 || Lesson Topic: Adjectives and Descriptive Writing in Information Reports. || Learning
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HSIE OUTCOME CUS 2.4. Describes different viewpoints, ways of living, languages and belief systems in a variety of communities.

Indicators: - Read about major customs and celebrations of religious and other community groups. - Look at written texts to explore diversity within and across schools and other communities - Describe an image of a significant cultural event.

ENGLISH OUTCOMES

R.S 2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts.

WS 2.10 Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type.

WS 2.14 Discusses how own texts have been structured to achieve their purpose and the grammatical features characteristic of the various text types used.

Indicators: - Identifies adjectives and how they are used to provide information about nouns. - Identifies adjectives in their own writing and talks about their function in making meaning. - Talks about how different types of adjectives have been used to add information in their own writing. - Attempts to include a range of quantity, factual and classifying adjectives in their writing in order to build descriptions in extended noun groups. || IWB, Saved Image of NAIDOC week ,photocopies of Information report on NAIDOC Week from ‘Australia’s commemorative days’ (book), highlighters, white board markers, a different information report on NAIDOC week from ‘Commemorative Days’ (book) to be shown on the IWB, dictionaries. || Teacher will... __Introduction:__ Begin the lesson by putting up a picture on the IWB of an Aboriginal man performing a traditional dance at NAIDOC week. Start by asking the students what they think this man is doing/celebrating? ( see Lesson Five Resource page for image) Ask students for adjectives they would use to describe him? Elicit from the students that this man is dancing to celebrate NAIDOC week. Ask the students if anyone knows what this stands for. Explain that today they will be looking at adjectives and their place in Information reports. Ask the students what kind of adjectives are most commonly used in Information Reports and what is their focus in factual writing. Remind the students of the difference between factual, quality and classifying adjectives.Tell the students that today they will be focussing on adjectives and descriptive writing as this is one area that they all needed work in their first draft of their Information Report |||||| Students will...
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Look at the image on the IWB answer the teacher’s questions. || __Activity One:__ Explain to the students that for the first Activity they will be put into groups of 3-4 and be given a short Information report on NAIDOC week. They need to, as a group, try to identify as many adjectives as they can in this report in 5 minutes. Divide the students into groups ( see Unit of Work page, lesson five appendices for text). After this, select students to feedback as a whole class which words they chose. Correct any errors.
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__Activity Two:__ Now that students can identify adjectives correctly put up onto the IWB a different Information Report on NAIDOC week for the students to read that has some of it’s adjectives blanked out and numbered.( see Lesson Five Resource page for template). Ask students to read the text to themselves. Then ask students to think of suitable adjectives that could be placed in the blank spaces. Explain to them that of course they may not always know the answer but that they should try to use their vocabulary knowledge to answer this. Explain that they may write their answers down in their note books. Ask students to then compare their answers with a partner. Then ask students to share a few answers with the class

__Activity Three:__ In the final activity the teacher will give back to the students their first drafts of their information reports on their chosen celebration. Tell the students that it is now their chance to apply the previous strategies to their own work. Explain that they need to identify how many adjectives they have used and then try to add more, interesting adjectives to their reports to make it more interesting to read and to expand their noun groups. Remind them of the different kinds of adjectives commonly used in Information reports. If necessary take an example sentence from a students work to illustrate on the whiteboard. |||||| Listen to instructions for the first activity.

Get into groups and complete activity.

Feedback to the class.

Read the text to themselves.

Try to come up with adjectives that would fit appropriately in the blank spaces.

Students participate in a pair share on their answers and then share as a whole class.

Students listen to the instructions for the activity.

Students pay attention to the example.

Students now spend the next part of the lesson working on their information report. || To conclude the lesson the teacher will highlight to the students the importance of being descriptive in one’s writing. Explain to the class that in the next lesson they will be writing their final drafts for their wiki. |||||| Students listen to the teacher and ask any questions they may have. || During this lesson the students will be assessed in a variety of ways in a formative way. The students will actually already have been assessed on their ability in this area partially by the first drafts of the information report which the teacher will have already marked. During this lesson the teacher will take note during the feedback parts of the lesson on the answers given by the students and on their level of participation. They will also be assessed on their contribution to group work and in their effort shown in trying to include new and appropriate adjectives to their information report in order to make it more interesting and more informative. ||
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