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Orientation Day Teacher Pack - Lower Primary
P F 1 2 3 Pre & Primary Essentials Resources Worksheets Engaging With & Responding to Literature 27 Pages

Orientation Day Teacher Pack - Lower Primary

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.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to respond to stories and share our feelings and thoughts about events and characters.
  • We are learning to respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators.
  • We are learning to make connections to personal experiences when discussing texts.
  • We are learning to make connections to personal experiences when explaining characters and main events in short texts.
  • We are learning to identify features, such as characters and settings, of different literary texts and give reasons for personal preferences.
  • We are learning to identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain and give reasons for personal preferences.
  • We are learning to draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts and share responses with others.
  • We are learning to draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others.

Curriculum alignment

ENe-10C old Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts EN2-12E old Recognises and uses an increasing range of strategies to reflect on their own and others’ learning EN2-11D old Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own EN1-11D old Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences ENE-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults EN2-UARL-01 new Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts EN2-RECOM-01 new Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN2-OLC-01 new Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting EN1-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose EN1-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions ENE-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature read to them
VCELT207 Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences VCELT241 Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences VCELT171 Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts VCELT251 Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others VCELT252 Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature VCELT170 Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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