This comprehensive unit plan has been designed to explore evaluative language, including modal verbs. Through the use of the presentation, activities and worksheets students will extend their technical vocabulary and ways of expressing feelings and opinions. At the completion of the unit, there is an assessment for teachers to utilize to assess student learning.
Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
Extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension