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A Garden of Your Own

A Garden of Your Own
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Description

This activity encourages students to use their imagination to create their own special garden. Inspired by The Secret Sky Garden and Florette, students will describe and develop their garden through drawing, descriptive writing, and storytelling.

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9E2LY08 9

Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters

AC9EFLY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

AC9EFLY08 9

Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations

AC9E1LY08 9

Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters

AC9E1LY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures

AC9E2LY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning

ACELY1650 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

ACELY1653 8.4

Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations

ACELY1660 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

ACELY1663 8.4

Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters

ACELY1670 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

ACELY1673 8.4

Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters

ENe-4A old

Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies

ENe-3A old

Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts

EN1-4A old

Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

EN1-3A old

Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies

ENE-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect

ENE-HANDW-01 new

Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas

EN1-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning

EN1-HANDW-01 new

Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts

VCELY153

Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

VCELY162

Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case

VCELY186

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

VCELY196

Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters

VCELY222

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

VCELY232

Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position

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