This activity helps students explore how language in poetry creates feelings and emotions. They will identify emotions in Triantiwontigongolope, consider how the poem makes them feel, and analyse how the poet’s word choices affect the mood of the poem.
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams
Re-read student’s own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation
Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs
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
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
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
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
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
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements
Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation
Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs
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