A Grade 1 oral language lesson focused on narrating family traditions and celebrations. Students use temporal connectors and descriptive language to share a special story from their family life, aligned with WIDA Narrate standards.
Synthesise all learned elements (noun groups, action verbs, punctuation) to create descriptive sentences about Mallee Sky. Scaffolded with sentence starters and word cards.
Focus on capital letters and full stops in simple sentences about the Mallee environment. Students act as 'Punctuation Patrol' to correct and write clear sentences.
Focus on verbs and action words in 'Mallee Sky'. Students explore what the sun, clouds, and rain do. Sentence creation is scaffolded with cut-and-paste sentence builders.
Focus on simple noun groups from the text. Students learn to build and read descriptions like 'the dry dirt'. Sentence work involves fill-in-the-blank cloze sheets.
Introduce 'Mallee Sky', focusing on the setting and senses. In the GPV segment, students identify nouns and adjectives, followed by joint sentence construction.