Serious Spelling
In this worksheet, students help legendary bard William Spellspeare proofread one of his letters for spelling errors. This worksheet is part of a larger unit that helps your students better understand and develop the skills required to edit their own work using the COPS system.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative, persuasive and multimodal texts with correct text structure, grammar, punctuation, language features, images and sound appropriate for the purpose and the audience.
- We are learning to re-read and edit work using knowledge of text structures and language features.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E5LY06
9
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation
ACELY1705
8.4
Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
EN3-2A
old
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
EN3-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
EN3-VOCAB-01
new
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
EN3-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
EN3-SPELL-01
new
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
EN3-HANDW-01
new
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
EN3-HANDW-02
new
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
EN3-UARL-01
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
EN3-UARL-02
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
VCELY329
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
VCELY330
Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
VCELY332
Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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