Comprehension text – The mermaid of Zennor – Year 2 digital unit

Description

This is a 7-page unit from the Developing Comprehension skills and word knowledge series that covers:

Text

Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately (ACELY1789)
Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts (ACELY1665)
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591)

Comprehension

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 (ACELY1670)
Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, re-reading and self-correcting (ACELY1669)
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 (ACELA1470)

Word knowledge

Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writing (ACELA1474)
Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes (ACELA1472)
Understand how to use knowledge of diagraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words (ACELA1471)
Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable (ACELA1824)

Each individual text type covers a number of content descriptions across the Language, Literature and Literacy strands of Australian Curriculum English. The detailed lesson plans save valuable planning time and allow for individual student differences. Use all, or some, of the ideas provided to cater to the needs of your class.

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