Learning task 3
To assist with forming an argument, students participate in an activity similar to a debate called Academic Controversy. Procedures for this activity are online at the Tasmania English Learning Area. Write the topic for the Academic Controversy, "New Zealand and Australia should have a common border for trade purposes", on the whiteboard.
Extracting and organising Information
The
Information Transfer (Word 29KB)
is a graphic organiser to help students organise their ideas for transactional writing.
Preparing to learn at sentence level
- This range of tasks prepares students for learning, but is placed at the end of the unit as the tasks are designed to introduce the exemplars.
- The
Referral words (Word 44KB)
task focus on pronouns.
- The
cohesion (Word 33KB)
task can be completed independently or explain how to complete the worksheets and model the first answer.
- To help students integrate quotes into text a
quotes activity (Word 28KB)
activity is included.
Published on: 15 Jul 2009
