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.