Lesson Title: Holidays
Date:
KLA: English
Stage: Early Stage 1
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Grade: K-6
Duration: 30 minutes
Aim of the lesson:
To provide opportunities for the students to share their experiences from the holidays
through a narrative recount. Other areas that these worksheets focus on include:
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Homophone identification (there/their/they’re) – Stage 2.
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Irregular past tense – Stage 2.
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Procedural writing – Stage 3.
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Narrative structure (including a beginning, middle and an end) – Stages 1, 2, 3.
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Identification of nouns, verbs and adjectives – Stage 3.
Outcomes and Indicators:
Early Stage 1:
Stage 2:
RES 1.5
RES 1.6
WES 1.9
WES 1.11
WES 1.12
WES 1.14
Stage 1:
RS 1.5
RS 1.6
RS 1.7
RS 1.8
WS 1.9
WS 1.10
WS 1.11
WS 1.12
RS 2.6
WS 2.9
WS 2.10
WS 2.11
WS 2.12
Stage 3:
RS 3.6
WS 3.9
WS 3.10
WS 3.11
WS 3.12
Resources: Holidays Worksheets
Pen or pencil
Assessment:
Early Stage One:
- Form meaningful sentences by inserting an appropriate word chosen from the list.
- Spelling.
- Word order and sentence structure.
Stage One
- Narrative recount of past events.
- Spelling.
Stage Two
- Irregular verbs, present and past tense.
- Narrative recount of their experiences on holidays.
- Homophones.
- Proof reading.
Stage Three
- Procedural writing.
- Narrative recount.
- Noun, verb and adjective identification.
Time:
Introduction
5 minutes
Body
20 minutes
Closure
5 minutes
Task engagement:
Introduction: Explanation
of task and topic.
Teacher’s notes
Body: Worksheet
Closure: Collecting /
putting away worksheets.
Extension: Give the student the worksheet at the stage that they are working at. This is not
always the equivalent year level.
If a student is finding the worksheets too easy increase the difficulty by one stage.
Stage 3 B students – ask them to write a narrative on the topic if they need extending.
Values:
Integrity
- trusting others to work independently.
- doing what you say you will do.
- teachers mark students work consistently to agreed standards.
Excellence
- reaching personal best performance.
- maintaining high learning expectations.
- setting and meeting high standards.
- persisting through challenges and difficulties in learning.
Respect
- accepting the right of others to hold different views to your own.
- listening to others without interrupting.
- obeying school rules.
- acknowledging the strength and abilities of students.
Responsibility - self discipline.
- modelling expected behaviours.
- involvement in strategies to encourage compliance with school rules.
Cooperation
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accepting class protocols for group work and working with others.
working well with others outside immediate friendships.
initiating problem solving.
identify issues and possible solutions to help reserve conflict.
Participation
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contribute to class discussions.
encouraging creative thinking about issues and problems.
accept roles in group activities.