ESI487 Assignment 3
Unit title: Text typesHost content areas: Literacy Understandings: How do we communicate for different purposes and audiences? Teacher: Mr Van Raay How are texts constructed for particular effects? Year Level: Grade 5 Standard 3-4 Stages 7-11 | ||||||
Stage | Purpose | Resources, preparation | Sequence of activities | Grouping | Ongoing assessment | Strategies and skills |
Week 1 | To determine students current knowledge and understanding. | Handout 1/ newspapers; enough for one between two (same every Monday). Handout 2/ scavenger hunt. Handout 3/ A Newspaper Article (appendix 1). Cardboard for display | Every Monday students will share a copy of the newspaper marking interesting, unusual, amazing, horrible, sad, funny etc things they come across. Discuss what they have read and found interesting. ============================================== Conduct a Newspaper Scavenger Hunt. Activity 3. Have the students list from their discovery, the parts of the newspaper, (i.e. - sports, comics, movie guide, business articles, weather, stock market report, crossword puzzle, TV guide, political column, advertisements, real estate ads, classified ads, photos, etc.) Discuss the feature of the newspaper as a group. Why is sport on the back page? Introduce the topic of the newspaper by formulating a K-W-L chart on the whiteboard. In groups of four ask students' to brainstorm ideas about what they know about a newspaper and formulate their own group K-W-L chart for display. What is it used for? Where do you get it? What is its benefit/disadvantage? Who writes it? Where and how? Why buy one? Make a list of things you might find in a newspaper. Class discussion. | Pairs then class discussion. | Brainstorming Listening Recalling Classifying Grouping Working in teams Discussion Research Being literate Thinking Communicating | |
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Cardboard | Classroom display. Get some large display posters from the newsagents. On a sheet of cardboard have students do a display on Newspapers. See appendix 2 for... | |||||
Newspaper colour
English: part two of newspaper article i wrote
Newspaper article, Christchurch 1937