Clever Commentary

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 3 English

Students can:

• understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating (AC9E3LA07)
• understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense (AC9E3LA08).

Year 4 English 

Students can:

• understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity (AC9E4LA08)
• understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence (AC9E4LA09).  

Relevant parts of Year 3 English achievement standards: Students describe the language features of texts, including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and how visual features extend meaning. 

Relevant parts of Year 4 English achievement standards: Students describe how ideas are developed through characters and events, and how texts reflect contexts,and describe how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning. 

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion and lead explicit teaching about verb tenses.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Whiteboard
• Student Worksheet (1 per student)

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

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