FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT

TERM/WEEKS: 1,
Weeks 7-8

YEAR LEVEL: 4

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC:

ENGLISH Writing

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Critical and creative

thinking

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and
Cultures

Ethical Behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Personal and social

Competence

Sustainability

WEEK
/
LESS
ON

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Week:
7
Lesso
n:
1

Language;
Expressing and
developing ideas;
Understand that the
meaning of sentences
can be enriched through
the use of noun
groups/phrases and
verb groups/phrases
and prepositional
phrases(ACELA1493)

Demonstrate how
both images and
words can be used
to create meaning.

Checklist:
Did the student
select relevant
pictures to their
topic?

Introduction;
Discuss what students know about nouns and
adjectives.
Have them use one word to describe the person
next to them.

Did the student

name the
picture using a
noun?

Lesson;
Students will be broken up into 3 groups to focus
on a topic (animals, places or people).
Dependent on class size, may need more groups.

Did the student

have at least 5
adjectives
describing their
picture?

Pic Collage (iPad app) will be used to create a

photo collage. Students can search for images
relevant to their topic.

Literacy;
Creating texts;
Use a range of software
including word
processing programs to
construct, edit and
publish written text, and
select, edit and place
visual, print and audio

Use Pic Collage

to create a display
of adjectives.
Recognise that
adjectives can be
specific to a topic
or can be used
across multiple
topics.
Use Titan Pad to
record collective
answers of a
group.

Class discussion
(observation
only):
Could the

Intercultural
Understanding

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

Students will then add 5 images to the collage.

Then add a text box over each image. They will
use a noun to name the image and then add at
least 5 adjectives.
For students who have difficulty in finding the

KEY
QUESTIONS

What is an
adjective?
Why would
we use
them?
How do they
help us when
we read a
text?
Can the
same
adjective be
used to
describe two
different
things?
(example;
can you

RESOURCES

iPads
Pic Collage
app loaded
onto iPads.
Interactive
Whiteboard
(IWB)
Titan Pad
web page
Tag Crowd
web page

elements (ACELY1697)

Use Tag Crowd to

identify what
common and not
so common
answers were in a
group.

students define
an adjective?

words suggest they look at the basics first

(colour, size, shape)

Could the
students
discuss how
and when
adjectives are
used?

Ensure each group has a mix of strong ICT users

and weak ICT users.
Extension activity: ask students to find another
word that describes the same feature (small,
tiny, miniscule).
Each student will add their adjectives to the class
Titan Pad
The Titan Pad will then be copied to Tag Crowd,
select one student to complete this on the IWB.
Conclusion;
Have students present their Pic Collages.
Discuss what the common adjectives were for
each group.
Use the Tag Crowd to discuss what the common
adjectives were for the class. Could some only
apply to a particular topic?
Discuss how adjectives help us when we write.

describe an
animal and
an
environment
with the
same words)