Can You Say It Better?
”Can You Say It Better?" is an engaging worksheet designed to enhance students' vocabulary and language skills. Through a series of sentences with basic grammar and common words, students are challenged to elevate their language by swapping out descriptive vocabulary. This resource promotes creativity and critical thinking while providing opportunities for differentiation to accommodate varying levels of proficiency.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand new and familiar vocabulary and to make suitable vocabulary choices to suit the audience and purpose.
- We are learning to recognise formal and informal language and understand the appropriate use of each.
- We are learning to understand new and familiar vocabulary and to make suitable vocabulary choices to suit the audience and purpose.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E2LA09
9
Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
AC9E2LA01
9
Investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions
ACELA1461
8.4
Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context
ACELA1470
8.4
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose
EN1-1A
old
Communicates with a range of people in informal and guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations
EN1-7B
old
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
VCELA235
Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context
VCELA237
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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