Lesson Topic/Focus Blogging Date 21/6/12

VELS Domain(s) English Writing & ICT

Grade(s)/Year Level(s) 4
VELS Dimension (or Religious Education Guideline)
Writing
At Level 3, students write texts containing several logically ordered paragraphs that express
opinions and include ideas and information about familiar topics. They write narratives which
include characters, setting and plot. They order information and sequence events using some
detail or illustrative evidence, and they express a point of view providing some information and
supporting detail. They combine verbal and visual elements in the texts they produce. They meet
the needs of audiences by including appropriate background information
They write a variety of simple and compound sentences and use verb tenses correctly. They use
punctuation to support meaning, including exclamation marks and quotation marks, and
accurately use full stops, commas and question marks. They use vocabulary appropriate to
context and spell most one and twosyllable words with regular spelling patterns, and frequently
used words which have less regular spelling patterns. They use sound and visual patterns when
attempting to spell unfamiliar words
Duration o Lesson 40 Minutes
Learning !utcome(s)/Standard(s)"
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#ssessment"
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