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You and Me, Murrawee

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Literal & Inferred- Characters

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WALT: Identify information about a character in the text.
WILF: You can explain what you can see in the text and what you think about the text.

Social: Follow instructions.
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Understanding Context - Culture

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Preparing the Brain:

WALT: Understand what culture is.
WILF: Can you identify the culture in the book and how the author shows it. 

Humanity: We celebrate our differences

Engaging & Stretching the Brain:

I do: Discuss culture and explaining your own culture. 
We do: Fill in culture grid together.
You do: Fill in your own culture.
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Visual Features

*Making connections between information in print and images

Firing up the Brain:

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Timed Pair Share:
1. What is happening in the picture?
2. What are the emotions of the person who owns the car? Do you think they were still in it?
3. What are the emotions of the people walking past?

If you were going to write a caption to this picture - what would it be?

Preparing the Brain: 

WALT: Understand the connection between information and illustrations.
WILF: Explain how the illustration helps to explain the information // how the information helps to explain the information.

Social: We accept others ideas

Engaging the Brain: 

1. What does the text (the words) tell us on this page?
2. What do the images tell us on this page?
3. Is there an example of one helping to understand the other?
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Stretching the Brain:

Identify what the text tells us through the pictures and what the pictures tell us on their own...
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In the Water

- Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks (ACAVAM107)
- Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAVAM108)
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Imagine you are the girl looking down into the water - what would you see...

1) Create a detailed writing piece that describes what you can see in the water.

2) Create a detailed art piece that communicates the ideas that are in your writing.

Long Vowels

Firing up the Brain:

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Preparing the Brain:

WALT: Use long vowels correctly.
WILF: You can identify the long vowels in the text and use these to write a sentence.

Social Goal: Listen Actively

Engaging the Brain:

Read through the text and identify words with long vowel sounds.

​Model writing a sentence using these words

Stretching the Brain:

Students write long vowel sounds of their choosing in sentences.

Strengthening the Brain:

Find the long vowels

Identify Text Structure

* Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463) ​

Firing Up the Brain:

Dragon's Garden

Preparing the Brain:

WALT: Identify the text structure and if there are 1 or 2 stories in this book.
WILF: You can explain, using the text, how the structure helps us to understand the story of each character.

Social Goal: We are accepting of others ideas.

Engaging the Brain:

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Stretching the Brain:

Story Map the two separate stories of the Girl and Murrawee.
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Strengthening the Brain:

Questions:
1. What is the structure of this text?
2. What is the purpose of this text?
3. How does the structure help meet the purpose of the text?

Language Features

Sentence structure, noun group/phrase, vocabulary, punctuation, figurative language...
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Different Modes of Communication

The Aboriginal people believe that the earth and everything in it was made by their ancestral spirits. This is called the Dreamtime or the Dreaming. It was a time when the rivers, mountains, rocks, deserts and plants were made. The Dreamtime stories are an important part of the Aboriginal culture.

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Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world, of it's creation, and it's great stories. The Dreamtime is the beginning of knowledge, from which came the laws of existence. The Dreaming world was the old time of the Ancestor Beings. They emerged from the earth at the time of the creation
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Nouns

Firing up the Brain:

Preparing the Brain:

WALT: Understand what a noun is.
WILF: You can correctly identify nouns in sentences.

Social Goal: We look for solutions

Engaging the Brain:

Nouns

Stretching the Brain:

Round robin - nouns
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Strengthening the Brain:

Grammar Quiz

​Historical Narrative

Task: Create a word bank of key vocabulary from our pictures from the past and present around Jackadder Lake. Add descriptions to each of your words. See past and present word banks below. Students write section by section on a separate piece of paper. Students to tick off word bank as they write. Students can use any of the bolded words in my modelled text for inspiration.

1) Imagine you are Murrawee (or another traditional aboriginal name) going down to Jackadder Lake. What you write in this will be illustrated in a water colour painting.

2) Imagine you are the Girl (choose a name, or your own) going down to Jackadder Lake. What you write in this will be created using acrylic paint as an overlay on your water colour design.
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    • The Return to the Hollow
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    • Fractions
    • Multiplication
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    • Mass and Capacity
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  • Morning/Relief
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  • Year 2
    • English >
      • Sem 1 English >
        • You and Me Murrawee
        • Shared Reading
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society
        • Clancy & Millie and the Very Fine House >
          • Building Homes
          • Nouns
          • Guided Reading
      • Sem 2 English >
        • Australian Kids through the Years >
          • History of Bicycles
          • Pictures for Report
          • Shared Reading-trees
        • Expedition 40 - The Secret of the Seasons
        • Natural Wonders
        • Reading Strategies Persuasive
        • Speaking and Listening
        • The Deep End & Water
    • Maths >
      • Semester 1 >
        • Length
        • 2D Shapes
        • Chance
        • Place Value
        • Addition and Subtraction
        • Rainbow Facts
        • 3D Shapes
        • Money
      • Semester 2 >
        • Number Sequences
        • Number
        • Arrays
        • Area
        • Division
        • Measurement
        • Volume and Capacity
        • Fractions
        • Working Mathematically
        • Location and Transformation
        • Statistics
        • Months and Seasons
        • 2016 >
          • Art
          • HASS >
            • Country/Place >
              • Why I Love Australia
            • Boomerang Art
          • English >
            • Semester 1 >
              • Poetry
              • Imaginative Retell
              • Time text- shared reading
              • Shared Reading
              • Journal Writing
              • What made Tiddalick Laugh
              • Guided reading writing stim
              • Spelling ( Powerpoint chants)
            • Semester 2 >
              • Reading for Facts
              • Reading- Seasons math connection
              • Persuasive Writing >
                • Persuasive text shared reading
              • NAPLAN Prep
              • Imaginative Retell
              • Quad Bike
            • Brain Break
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