This pack is great to use for an orientation day or the beginning of a new school year. The pack includes all the necessary items to welcome new students to the class, including a welcome sign, name tags, crowns to decorate, a note to the new teacher and book suggestions with followup activities for each.
Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters
Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences
Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences
Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
Recognises and uses an increasing range of strategies to reflect on their own and others’ learning
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences
Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others
Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature