Session

Language Demands Information Text (Desert People)

What spoken
What listening tasks What texts will the What written text
language demands will there be?
students be
types will there
will there be?
reading?
be?
1

Recounting prior
knowledge of
deserts
Giving an
explanation

Following
instructions to be
able to complete
an information
web
Listening to
questions

Factual texts

What aspects of
grammar will the
students be
expected to use?

Answering
questions
(proper use of
Tenses)
Vocabulary
Punctuation

Stage 3, Year 5
What specific
vocabulary does the
topic require
students to know?
Content words
(introduced gradually
as needed):
Story critical: Adapt,
ancestors, arid,
climate, nomadic,
resources
Enrichment: Bountiful,
caravans, desolate,
dung, extract, fertile,
inhospitable, jinn,
lush, millennia,
monsoons, oases,
plateaus,
precipitation, vast,
vegetation

Giving a reasoned
opinion
Asking questions
Describing a title
page

Being able to give

a summary of
what their partner
has told them
Asking questions

Listening to the
teacher describe
the elements of
the text
Focussing on
questions

Information text
(Desert People)

Listening to the

teacher
summarising short
pieces of spoken

information
Listening to a

Page 4,
Demanding
Deserts
Page 5, What
exactly is a

Factual texts title

page, Table of
Contents

Capitalisation
Proper Nouns
Writing in
complete
sentences
(proper use of
Tenses)

Title page, fiction,

non-fiction, Table of
Contents, prediction,
word bank

Fact webs, factual

texts

Using commas to
separate points
Questions
Correct
sentences
(proper use of

Vocabulary generated
by word web, content
words listed in Day 1,
summarising

Session

Language Demands Information Text (Desert People)

What spoken
What listening tasks What texts will the What written text
language demands will there be?
students be
types will there
will there be?
reading?
be?
partner recount
information
4

Comparing and
contrasting
Explaining
similarities and
differences

Oral reading

Giving a summary

Comparing things
Reading a
summary
Oral reading
Reporting to the
class
Using prepositions
in sentences
Oral reading
Asking questions

What aspects of
grammar will the
students be
expected to use?

desert?

Page 10 and 14
Page 24
(Glossary)

Stage 3, Year 5
What specific
vocabulary does the
topic require
students to know?

Tenses)

Factual texts, photo

descriptions,
matching vocabulary

Comprehension
questions,
information texts

Correct
punctuation
Adjectives

Content word bank,

adjective word bank
for comparing and
contrasting,
similarities and
differences

Phrases
Adjectives used
to describe
nouns
Adverbs

Content word bank,

summary,
comprehension

Compare and
contrast
listening to the
teacher modelling
Listening to fellow
students give
explanations
Listening to oral
summaries
Listening to the
retelling of the
text www.raz-
kids.com

Listening to
partners
Listening to class
summaries

Information text
(Desert People)

Factual texts, Venn

diagrams

Writing a summary
using commas, full
stops and question
marks

Content words, Venn

diagrams, comparison
words

Listening to
groups report on
their chapter
Listening to
teacher
instructions

Information text
(Desert People)

Factual texts,
prepositions,
worksheet

Prepositions

Content words,
prepositions

Factual texts

Session

Language Demands Information Text (Desert People)

What spoken
What listening tasks What texts will the What written text
language demands will there be?
students be
types will there
will there be?
reading?
be?
8

Asking questions to
research desert
peoples

Focusing on
information from the
Internet resources

Factual texts from

researching the
Internet

Discussing and
explaining ideas from
discussion cards

Listening to partners

10

Giving a
presentation
Asking questions
Answering
questions

Listening to
presentations

Information
texts
Discussion
questions

Factual texts

Factual recounts

Factual reports,
discussion questions

Information reports

Stage 3, Year 5

What aspects of
grammar will the
students be
expected to use?

What specific
vocabulary does the
topic require
students to know?

Writing paragraphs
using correct
punctuation and
grammar

Content words,
dictionaries, the word
wall

Prepositions
Comparisons

Content words,
dictionaries and
glossaries
Content words,
dictionaries