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Syllabus outcomes for
Bear and Chook books rap
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Bear and Chook and Bear and Chook by the sea
by Lisa Shanahan and Emma Quay
Covers reproduced by permission of Hachette Children’s Books |
Focus outcomes for English Stage 1
Learning to Read — Reading and Viewing Texts
RS1.5 Reads a wider range of texts on less familiar topics with increasing independence and understanding, making connections between own knowledge and experience and information in texts.
Shared, Guided and Independent Reading
- draws on own knowledge to interpret characters and events in literary texts related to personal experiences
- speculates on the behaviour of characters in stories and discusses own behaviour in similar situations
- participates in class/group brainstorming activities to cluster and categorise ideas and facts following the reading of texts
Responding to Texts
- assesses role of visual images accompanying written text, eg in providing additional information or introducing new information
Subject Matter
- begins to read texts about less familiar topics.
Learning to Write – Producing Texts
WS1.9 Plans, reviews and produces a small range of simple literary and factual texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers.
Joint and Independent Writing
- uses a framework to make notes, eg matrix, flowchart, semantic map
- writes elementary descriptions of familiar things
- writes short recounts of personal experience
- expresses an opinion in writing
- contributes to joint construction of texts
Audience
- reads own writing to the teacher or to a peer
Channel of Communication
- uses drawings to accompany texts where relevant
- contributes to jointly constructed class blog messages
Learning to Write – Skills and Strategies
WS1.10 Produces texts using the basic grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type.
Grammar and Punctuation
- uses adjectives to provide more information about nouns
- uses creative word play in the writing of literary texts.
Linked outcomes for English Stage 1
Learning to Talk and Listen — Talking and Listening
TS1.1 Communicates with an increasing range of people for a variety of purposes on both familiar and introduced topics in spontaneous and structured classroom activities.
Purpose
- expresses a point of view about texts read, heard or viewed
Audience, Subject Matter
- listens attentively and converses with others to share ideas or give information.
Learning About Reading — Context and Text
RS1.7 Understands that texts are constructed by people and identifies ways in which texts differ according to their purpose, audience and subject matter.
Purpose
- describes the purpose of organisational stages in familiar texts
Audience
- predicts from the cover and title the target audience of a text
Responding to Texts
- makes inferences and expresses an opinion about a character’s actions, qualities, characteristics and motives in texts read or viewed and speculates on own behaviour in a similar situation.
Learning About Writing – Context and Text
WS1.13 Identifies how own texts differ according to their purpose, audience and subject matter.
Audience
- states the purpose and intended reader before writing
Subject Matter
- selects and refines topic before writing.
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