Learning Experience Seven

Learning Objective/s

Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority

Australian Curriculum


LS 6 (vi) Use words and word groups in complex sentences, including
nominalisations (a process for forming nouns from verbs or adjectives) to
identify or refer to ideas, concepts, people, places and objects and use verb
tenses that locate events in time.

VR 6 (v) - Identify and describe words and word groups that: represent ideas
and relationships in sentences, including extended noun groups and phrases
and extend ideas and show relationships.

VR 6 (vii) - Predict and confirm the meaning of unfamiliar words and decode
them using and combining cues including knowledge about word origins, base
words, prefixes and suffixes.

WC 6 (vi) - Use words and word groups including: noun groups, phrases and
adjectives to create effective, detailed and accurate descriptions, adverbs and
phrases to show time, place and cause and verbs and adverbs to intensify
meanings, expand and sharpen ideas.

WC 6 (x) - Select learning area vocabulary that: adds precision and enhances
meaning.



Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses (ACELA1521).

Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful
choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases
(ACELA1523).

Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can
express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525).

Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words,
suffixes and prefixes, morphemes, spelling patterns and generalisations to
learn and spell new words, for example technical words and words adopted
from other languages (ACELA1526).

Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating
ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating
information, experiences and opinions (ACELY1709).

Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as
voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of
interaction and needs and expertise of the audience (ACELY1816).

Classroom Organisation


Assessment

Differentiation/Adjustments

- Direct instruction.
- Whole class
brainstorm.
- Interactive whole class
game.

Formative Assessment: Questioning, class brainstorm and
Write Answers quiz, will assist with the assessment of
understanding.



- Sequenced in stages and guided with explanations
and demonstrations.
- Body language and hand gestures.
- Visual representations.
- Direct instruction and modelling.
- Cooperative learning groups.


Learning Experience Sequence


Learning Experience Duration:
60 Minutes

- 15 Minutes: Educator is to introduce lesson content; explaining that students will be required to participate in a
whole class brainstorm. This strategy will be utilised to not only to assess student comprehension, but also further
extend the knowledge gained from the previous rotations.
- 20 Minutes: Class brainstorm focusing on the concepts within the previous learning experience; e.g. the use of
commas in texts and separate clauses, verbs, adverb groups/phrases and tense, evaluative language and
vocabulary. While brainstorm is in motion, Educator is to guide conversation using questioning (Resource Seven,
Section A) and record student responses while adding to the word wall.
- 25 Minutes: Once students have articulated newfangled knowledge, Educator is to segregate students into
cooperative learning groups for the Write Answers quiz. Groups will then be provided with paper and pencils,
and required to answer an array of questions from the focus text Playground (Resource Seven, Section B). The
team that answers the most question correctly is victorious.