Book Week 2024: There’s Magic In Words

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

• creative thinking
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5 and 6, English

• Students will learn to create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts (AC9E3LE05)
• Students will learn to create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (AC9E4LE05)

Relevant parts of Year 5 and 6 achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes: EN2-CWT-01

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia, Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - lead students in the word-generating activity and group story-writing tasks, and support students in independent writing activity.

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

• Target 4.6: By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

• Drawing materials
• Writing materials

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics With Nicole Case

Quick summary: In this professional learning session, we will explore the effectiveness of systematic synthetic phonics instruction, an evidence-based approach grounded in research and recognised for its success in teaching reading. We'll delve into the best practice teaching strategies within this method, emphasising their role in enhancing decoding skills, reading fluency, and overall literacy.

The session will also cover the selection of appropriate texts that support phonetic learning while building vocabulary and background knowledge. Participants will learn how to navigate and access additional resources and information to enrich teaching practice further.