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English Lesson Sequence - Clauses
English Lesson Sequence - Clauses
Year Level: 5
Focus Inquiry:
The following lesson sequence is designed for year 5 students. It is designed to aid students
towards completing a final summative assessment task of a persuasive analytical essay about
Flying Foxes in Central Queensland. Students will explore the focus question: ‘how can we
use persuasive writing techniques and sentence structures to write a persuasive analytical
essay?’ The Year 5 class will examine the 2 types of clauses, sentence types and noun groups,
with a link to subjective and objective language. Students will explore these aspects of
English through a range of learning techniques, including reading, watching and hands on,
creative learning. They will construct their own sentences and paragraphs using persuasive
writing techniques, to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of dependent and
independent classes, noun groups and subjective and objective language.
Rationale:
This lesson sequence aims to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of English
language: expressing and developing ideas. This learning sequence builds on ‘concepts, skills
and processes developed in earlier years’ (ACARA, 2021). The specific Australian
Curriculum links to this learning sequence are; ‘understand the difference between main and
subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause
(ACELA1507)- knowing that a complex sentence typically consists of a main clause and a
subordinate clause’ (ACARA, 2021), and ‘understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective
groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person,
place, thing, or idea (ACELA1508)’ (ACARA, 2021). The learning sequence focuses on the idea of
expressing and developing ideas through English language where students are able to engage with and
create a persuasive type text.
Lesson sequence overview
Understand how
noun
groups/phrases
and adjective
groups/phrases
can be expanded
in a variety of
ways to provide a
fuller description
of the person,
place, thing, or
idea
(ACELA1508)