EDLA519 Assessment 2. Template 3: Language demands.

What spoken
language
demands will
there be?

What listening
tasks will there
be?

What texts will

the students be
reading?

What written
text types will
there be?

What aspects of
grammar will
the students be
expected to
use?
Language and
structure (There
once was)
Alliteration

What specific
vocabulary does
the topic require
students to
know?
Garbage
Forest
Tin
Value

Class discussions
Think, pair, share

Listening to
teacher reading
The Tin Forest

Visual text
(YouTube video)
Reading along
with teacher (Tin
Forest)

Narrative
(orientation)

Pair discussions
Class discussions
Readers theatre

Listening to
teacher reading
The Tin Forest

Pair reading (Tin

Forest)

Write their own

script for readers
theatre

Word meanings
Affect and effect
Metaphors

Sprouted
Idea
Emerge

Listening to
teacher reading
The Tin Forest

Individual reading
of wish activity

Construct their
own responses to
interactive file and
wish activity

Grammatical
words depicting
meaning of
characterisation

Ache
Emptiness
Wish
Barren

Group discussions
Collaborative talk
Predictions

Listening to the
views of others in
the group
Listening to other
students reading
The Tin Forest

Re-reading text
Predicting what
happens next in
the text

Written group
mind map

Focus on verb/
verb groups
Identifying points
of view

Mingled
Dreaming
Point-of-view

Class discussions
Collaborative
vocabulary
building

Listening to
teacher reading
The Tin Forest

Individual reading
of interactive file

Written short
literary
descriptions
(adjectives)

Sentence building
Use and purpose
of adjectives

Jungle
Tropical
Exotic

EDLA519 Assessment 2. Template 3: Language demands.

Communication
with partner to
complete activity
Presentation and
comparison of
work
Class discussion
Small group
discussion

Think, pair, share

Listening to
teacher provide
explicit instruction

Re-reading and
adjusting their
personal literary
descriptions

Published and
illustrated short
literary
descriptions

Focus on
noun/noun group
Use and purpose
of adjectives

Adjective
Noun

Reading short
passages from The
Tin Forest

Adaptations of
original text by
students

Antonyms
Word meanings
Adjectives

Windswept
Wide
Rubbish
Weather

Composing lists
based on purpose
and audience

Language and
structure
Purpose
Audience

Formal typed
letter

Language of
opinions and
persuasion

Listening to
teacher read
Lester and Clyde
Listening to class
discussions and
presentations
Online texts as
part of research