Students sequence the key events in 'Mallee Sky' (drought changing to welcome rainfall) using a simplified storyboard planner, identifying how environmental patterns affect the landscape.
Students combine their cumulative learning of sensing verbs, prepositional phrases, and comparisons to co-construct and independently draft a descriptive paragraph about an outback landscape, utilizing a multi-tiered writing frame.
Students learn how prepositional phrases give information about 'where' and 'when' events occur, practicing adding them to simple sentences containing sensing verbs to build descriptive detail.