Suggested resources:
Stage 2 & 3
Heroes units plus units of work from Petaa CBCA web site.
Jandamarra and other Mark Greenwood books eg: Simpson and his donkey and Ned Kelly and the green sash, plus for another perspective we are going with The One and Only Ivan as class novel and will read Midnight by Mark Greenwood, Light horse Boy by Diane Wolfer and War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.
The Aussie Heroes series is also available online
http://newfrontierpublishing.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/aussie-heroes-series-is-now-available.html?m=1
The 'Aussie heroes' series by Gavel Edwards?: http://www.hazeledwards.com/page/sir_edward_weary_dunlop.html
The blurb on the back of the CBCA Peter Goldgoldthorpe's short-listed book 'Ice, rock, wind' describes Douglas Mawson as a hero. Cracking story and great for debating 'what makes a hero?'
Soldier Boy and War Horse.
Fantasy heroes Stage 1
Spelling Reading
Duration Term 4 (1–10 weeks) 8–10 hours per week in total
Unit/Topic Using a range of print and digital texts students explore the fantasy genre. Students identify and discuss common
features of plot, fantasy characters and what constitutes the hero in these texts. They create their own fantasy text to
share with their peers using the medium of their choice.
While teaching this unit, explicit teaching of reading will occur concurrently and reading groups will operate.
Texts: April Underhill, Tooth Fairy by Bob Graham, Beware of the Storybook Wolves by Lauren Child, Look, a Book!
by Libby Gleeson.
Types of texts: spoken texts, print texts, visual texts, media, multimedia and digital texts.
Weekly spelling focus
• morphemic word families
• letter combinations
• spelling rules
• word origins
• homophones
Guided/Modelled reading
• using clues in a text
• identifying different perspectives
• retelling to capture key events
• comprehension strategies to gain
meaning and respond to texts
Outcomes EN1-1A, EN1-2A, EN1-3A, EN1-4A, EN1-5A, EN1-6B, EN1-8B, EN1-9B, EN1-10C, EN1-11D, EN1-12E
http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/assets/global/files/english_s1_sampless1.pdf.
Stage 2 & 3
Heroes units plus units of work from Petaa CBCA web site.
Jandamarra and other Mark Greenwood books eg: Simpson and his donkey and Ned Kelly and the green sash, plus for another perspective we are going with The One and Only Ivan as class novel and will read Midnight by Mark Greenwood, Light horse Boy by Diane Wolfer and War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.
The Aussie Heroes series is also available online
http://newfrontierpublishing.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/aussie-heroes-series-is-now-available.html?m=1
The 'Aussie heroes' series by Gavel Edwards?: http://www.hazeledwards.com/page/sir_edward_weary_dunlop.html
The blurb on the back of the CBCA Peter Goldgoldthorpe's short-listed book 'Ice, rock, wind' describes Douglas Mawson as a hero. Cracking story and great for debating 'what makes a hero?'
Soldier Boy and War Horse.
Fantasy heroes Stage 1
Spelling Reading
Duration Term 4 (1–10 weeks) 8–10 hours per week in total
Unit/Topic Using a range of print and digital texts students explore the fantasy genre. Students identify and discuss common
features of plot, fantasy characters and what constitutes the hero in these texts. They create their own fantasy text to
share with their peers using the medium of their choice.
While teaching this unit, explicit teaching of reading will occur concurrently and reading groups will operate.
Texts: April Underhill, Tooth Fairy by Bob Graham, Beware of the Storybook Wolves by Lauren Child, Look, a Book!
by Libby Gleeson.
Types of texts: spoken texts, print texts, visual texts, media, multimedia and digital texts.
Weekly spelling focus
• morphemic word families
• letter combinations
• spelling rules
• word origins
• homophones
Guided/Modelled reading
• using clues in a text
• identifying different perspectives
• retelling to capture key events
• comprehension strategies to gain
meaning and respond to texts
Outcomes EN1-1A, EN1-2A, EN1-3A, EN1-4A, EN1-5A, EN1-6B, EN1-8B, EN1-9B, EN1-10C, EN1-11D, EN1-12E
http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/assets/global/files/english_s1_sampless1.pdf.