Hydro Tasmania - NAPLAN Language Revision Practice

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 7 English:

• Investigate vocabulary typical of extended and more academic texts and the role of abstract nouns, classification, description and generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language (ACELA1537).
• Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins, for example Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to learn new words and how to spell them (ACELA1539).

Year 8 English:

• Recognise that vocabulary choices contribute to the specificity, abstraction and style of texts (ACELA1547).
• Understand how to apply learned knowledge consistently in order to spell accurately and to learn new words including nominalisations (ACELA1549).
• Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts (ACELY1733).

Syllabus Outcomes: EN4-1A, EN4-3B. 

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – oversee activity.

• Copies of the Student Worksheet (one copy per student)
• Dictionaries

This lesson has been developed in partnership with  
Hydro Tasmania.

Hydro Tasmania has been at the forefront of clean energy innovation for one hundred years. It is Australia’s largest producer of clean energy – generating hydro and wind power – and the largest water manager. Hydro Tasmania has 55 major dams, operates 30 hydropower stations and has built some of Australia’s largest wind farms.

Hydro Tasmania also sells energy in the National Electricity Market through its retail business Momentum Energy, and sells its expertise internationally through its consulting business Entura.

Visit the Hydro Tasmania website to learn how the business is working towards Australia’s clean energy future.