Writing  

As part of writing students will be learning about the structure of factual recounts. They will be writing a factual recount about the 1967 Referendum which is a significant event in Australia that occurred around the time of the setting of the book we are reading, Us Mob Walawurru. Students will be reading and discussing a variety of non-fiction texts to help them understand new, more complex information. 

As writers they will take notes on key points of the texts and use these in their factual recount organising them into life before the referendum, events leading up to the referendum, and after the referendum.

Towards the end of the term students will be planning and writing a character analysis. Students will re-read, and edit their pieces of writing, reflecting on text-level features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Each week students will be provided a 20-minute touch typing skill session through Typing Club. All students have access to their own computer and, through this web-based educational platform, are learning about proper finger positioning and improving their typing speed and accuracy. Feedback for their typing performance is provided through regularly assessing their typing speed and accuracy.