Lizzie Chase

Writing factual texts in S1: To include websites/videos/books with diagrams/maps/graphs/tables. Resources downloadable at http://rainbybwps.weebly.com

- a simple website about rain to show students before they plan one of their own, in groups [doing one webpage/menu tab per group]. More resources to download at the DOWNLOAD tab on the site, including writing a factual book in groups.

Downloadable planners to support the use of the NSW Literacy Continuum, from Cluster 9-12, looking at Aspects of Writing. It is vital to program using your KLA Syllabus.
Lizzie Chase - www.pinterest.com/lizziemchase

All about me Stage 3 & 4 English blog starts in Week 3 at http://allaboutus2014.edublogs.org/. Author Deb Abela responds to student writing. Students interview each other, too. See attached resources. Contact elizabeth.chase@det.nsw.edu.au for extra writing resources.

Literacy Continuum Logs-Comprehension k-6
Comprehension trackers

These trackers are to assist teachers to plan for assessing their primary students' reading comprehension.
They are to prompt teachers to include inferential questions. The Super 6 skills will be useful.
Many of the rich concepts & learning tasks within the NSW English Syllabus K-10 are not addressed.
The log pages are not suitable for students - they are intended as prompts for teachers.
Downloadable Word documents can be modified as required, & made user friendly and less generic, for student use.

Make sure you visit this site of Lizzie's as she regulary upates what is there.

SUPER 6 CARDS:
This website contains Discussion cards and Journal prompts for the Super 6 thinking strategies.
Whenever we 1. connect, 2. predict, 3. question, 4. monitor, 5. visualise and 6. summarise
as we read, view, study or write, we are ACTIVELY processing ideas and we will REMEMBER them later.

David Wiesner picture books - fun follow ups
This website has my David Wiesner lesson ideas for teachers of primary English students. They are in response to some of David Wiesner's gorgeous picture books and The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs! written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. These are sparks of ideas which will need further articulation and scaffolding in your own classroom setting.

Emily Gravett Picture Books - Follow Ups
This website contains English lesson ideas for teachers of preschoolers and Kindergarten students in response to some of the gorgeous picture books by Emily Gravett.

Connecting learning at home and school.
The aim of the project was to develop short videos which model core components of the new NSW English Syllabus and 21st Century Learning in our schools and also to model helpful tips which can be used outside the school environment.

This website has been created through a collaboration of the
Equity Partnership Officer:
Donna Sirmais
Equity Consultant: Lizzie Chase
Schools in Western Sydney:
Blackheath PS, Kingswood Park PS, Hilltop Road PS and Bidwill PS

Inferring - How do we read between the lines?

This website offers TEACHER QUESTION CARDS for upper Primary and lower Secondary English student writing tasks at the Hats, boxes, magic, moon website or its student blog.

Super 6
Many versions of the Super 6 can be found by searching on the web. In this version, preferred in NSW, six metacognitive thinking strategies assist students to actively process ideas while reading. This active processing allows students to move information into their long term memories and transform their new learning into personal insights, individual note making or new formats.

CRUNCH, CRACKLE, CREATE PROJECT

This website is part of the Crunch, crackle, create enrichment project for Stage 3-4 English, in which upper primary and lower secondary Australian students have been working on tasks at http://crunchcracklecreate.weebly.com. See other work created by students in this project at www.crunchcracklecreate.com

Please note that these pages contain a collection of links to activities to support and enhance classroom teaching and learning. The thumbnails and activities are the property of the authors/creators and available due to their generosity in sharing their work.
This website contains NSW syllabus content prepared by the Board of Studies NSW for and on behalf of the State of New South Wales which is protected by Crown copyright. http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/
All external links are intended for educational purposes only. Steph Westwoodl is not responsible for questionable or controversial content/material that may be found on external sites.
Thank you to Glenys Goffet for this.