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WS01 - The spacey elephant

English, Year 4

By the end of Year 4, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories. They share and extend ideas, opinions and information with audiences, using relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They use text structures to organise and link ideas. They use language features including subjective and objective language, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features and features of voice. 

 

They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They describe how ideas are developed including through characters and events, and how texts reflect contexts. They describe the characteristic features of different text structures. They describe how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning. They read fluently and accurately, integrating phonic, morphemic, grammatical and punctuation knowledge. 

 

They create written and/or multimodal texts including stories for purposes and audiences, where they develop ideas using details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They use paragraphs to organise and link ideas. They use language features including complex sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features. They write texts using clearly formed letters with developing fluency. They spell words including multisyllabic and multimorphemic words with irregular spelling patterns, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge. 

Language | Text structure and organisation

AC9E4LA03

identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes

Language | Text structure and organisation

AC9E4LA04

dentify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E4LA06

understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E4LA07

investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E4LA08

understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E4LA09

understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E4LA10

explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image and salience on composition of still and moving images in texts

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E4LA11

expand vocabulary by exploring a range of synonyms and antonyms, and using words encountered in a range of sources

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E4LA12

understand that punctuation signals dialogue through quotation marks and that dialogue follows conventions for the use of capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation

Literature | Creating literature

AC9E4LE05

create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

Literacy | Creating texts

AC9E4LY06

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation

Literacy | Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LY09

understand how to use and apply phonological and morphological knowledge to read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter combinations, including a variety of vowel sounds and known prefixes and suffixes

Literacy | Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LY10

understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns, including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphological word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and word origins, to spell more complex words

Literacy | Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E4LY11

read and write high-frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling

Annotations

 

1. Creates an engaging first page, with a clear title and an image that captures the imaginative purpose of the text. 

2. Opens the text by introducing the main character and an interesting dilemma facing that character. Names the character “Rocket” to symbolise their dream of being an astronaut.

 

3. Includes an image to support characterisation.

4. Repeats “very large” to emphasise the character’s dilemma.

 

5. Organises key moments of the storyline in well-structured paragraphs.

 

6. Uses onomatopoeia (“DING DONG”) to bring the scene to life. Experiments with onomatopoeia (“BLWWBLWWBLWW”) to describe the happy trumpeting.

7. Chooses a precise verb (“strode”) to build Rocket’s personality and attitude.

 

8. Employs dialogue to develop the storyline.

9. Uses exclamation marks and an illustration to add humour to the text.

10. Contrasts Rocket and the other astronauts and creates humour, because the astronauts fly like birds while Rocket flies like an elephant.

11. Spells multisyllabic words.

 

12. Concludes the story by repeating the image from the beginning, again capturing the key idea of the text.