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**Strategies**Summarising Homework Letters (NAPLAN) Letters to the Editor (NAPLAN) Plastic Bags (NAPLAN)
 * **Topic – puppetry** || // **Reading** // || // **Writing** // || // **Spelling** // || // **Speaking and listening** // || // **Assessment** // ||
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 * **Week 1 -** Planning day MondayHand out project sheet || **Teaching Focus** Immerse students in literature about the topic.
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**Skills** Keywords – Highlighting important information. || **Teaching Focus** Exposition **Skills** Fact vs opinion


 * Grammar**Conjunction (revise) || **Teaching Focus** Compound words

Oral Expositions (Fact vs opinion) “Stand on the Line”“Corners” ||  ||
 * Strategies**Look, Say, Name… || Teaching **Focus**
 * Week 2 – Transition day – Monday – n**um**eracy focus || **Teaching Focus**How to find information, including how to select appropriate websites and books. How to find what you want in each.
 * Trang's Website on Internet Searching**

**Possible Texts** Stay Safe in the Sun (WritingFun) Too Much News (WritingFun) Homework Should Be Banned (WritingFun) **Strategies** Text Structure/Summarizing Keywords Block Out Text – Students use a black marker to block out irrelevant text. Exposition
 * Skills**
 * All Cut Up ** – Students use text pre-cut into chunks to determine the sequence within the text. || **Teaching Focus**

Text Structure Purpose
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Fact vs opinion-Letters to the Editor ** Grammar ** Indirect (Reported/Direct Speech (Quoted) - Extension || **Teaching Focus** Prefixes

**Possible Texts**
 * Strategies**Look, Say, Name… ||  ||   ||
 * Week 3- Leslie back || **Teaching Focus**Summarising, inc how to select the most important information and how to generalise from a collection of details

**Strategies** Text Structure/Summarizing ** GIST Summarizing Strategy ** – Students create summaries of twenty words or less which conveys the “gist” of what they read. || **Teaching Focus** Exposition
 * Skills** Note-taking - ** Students use a note pad and act like reporters, or the class can jointly make a list of things to help when taking notes, such as keywords or phrases (not sentences) **, **personal symbols or dot points.**

Purpose ** Grammar ** Indirect (Reported/Direct Speech (Quoted) - Extension || **Teaching Focus**Prefixes [|http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise] **Strategies**Look, Say, Name… ||  ||   || Team meeting || Teaching – Summarising. How to write dot points || ** Grammar ** Adverb || **Teaching Focus** Suffixes
 * Skills** Text Structure
 * Week 4 Lisa at PD

Suffixes
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 * Week 5 - FW Cup – Monday activities and Tuesday holiday || Teaching - How to expand your dot points into sentences of your own words. || ** Grammar ** Adverb || **Teaching Focus**

Plurals
 * Strategies**Look, Say, Name… ||  ||   ||
 * Week 6 – Remembrance Day ||  ||   || **Teaching Focus**

Plurals
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 * Week 7 – Reports due in ||  ||   || **Teaching Focus**

Verb tense
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 * Week 8 ||  ||   || **Teaching Focus**

Verb tense
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 * Week 9 ||  ||   || **Teaching Focus**

Base words
 * Strategies**Look, Say, Name… || Class debates ||  ||
 * Week 10 ||  ||   || **Teaching Focus**

Revision
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 * Week 11 ||  ||   || **Teaching Focus**


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