Annotated+Grammar+Lesson+Resource

__Resource for Celebrations Grammar Lesson__
Explanation of resource:

This resource is a factual text entitled ‘Commemorative Days’ and is written by Katherine Steward. It is part of a series of project books. It is a Pearson publication and was published in 2011. This resource looks at a wide range of Australian Commemorative Days ranging from Cultural and Historical days such as Harmony Day to Special Days such as Daffodil Day. The text is extremely well laid out and consists of a single or double page spread on each day. The information about each day is written in an Information Report style and so provides suitable examples of the text type the children have been writing. The language used in the text would be at Level two as it is a combination of everyday words as well as some new technical words. It has many colourful photographs to make the text engaging for the reader. The clear and well organised layout makes the text user friendly for the Stage two student. It also has a contents page, index, glossary and a ‘find out more’ section which suggests relevant websites.

Relevance of resource:

This resource is extremely relevant to this unit of work as it directly relates to the topic. It is relevant to the Australian school context as it is an Australian publication that covers a wide variety of Commemorative Days in Australia. In this unit of work the students are focussing on Information Reports on various celebrations and this book lends itself extremely well to this area as it contains many Information Reports that serve as strong examples of that particular text type. Another reason for it being a relevant resource is that it is stage appropriate. In the grammar lesson it will be used to examine adjectives and descriptive writing within Information Reports. In the grammar lesson the students will be looking at a particular Information Report on a particular commemorative day from the resource. Using skills and strategies they will read the text and attempt to add suitable adjectives to it and then apply the same strategies to their own Information report. This ties in to the English Syllabus outcome of RS 2.6 of efficiently using an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts (2007, p 31). In this activity the student is acting as a text participant and a text user. They are using the text for particular purposes which can be done effectively if the student knows about the linguistic features of the text type (Santoro, 2004, p 57). The students have this knowledge from the lesson they participated in earlier in the unit on How to write an Information report through modelled and jointly constructed writing.

References: NSW Board of Studies. (1999) //English K-6 syllabus.// Santoro, N. (2004). //Using the four resources model across the curriculum.// In A. Healy & E. Honan //Text next: New resources for literacy learning.// Newtown PETA pp 51-67 Stewart, K. (2011). //Project Series: Commemorative Days//. Pearson: Victoria.





Above pages adapted and taken from: Steward,K. (2001). Project series: Commemorative Days. Pearson: Victoria