4.3_Judith+E

//** Hi All, **// //** The students **// This unit is written for my Year 4/5 class which is a mixed ability class of 12 Year 4s and 14 Year 5s. There are a quite a few capable writers in both 4 and 5. In class I use modelling, scaffolding and I explicitly teach text types.

//** Background Information **// The unit of work will be taught in conjunction with a HSIE integrated uni on Chinat. Our Naplan results indicated that students had difficulty with audience and vocabulary. These two areas were also slightly down in this year’s results as well.

//** The focus for this unit – Persuasive **// Advertising influences consumers in the choice of products they purchase including overseas holidays. Students are to research, design and publish a travel brochure for China.

//** The literacy skills **//
 * vocabulary
 * audience

I am off class for the next 4 weeks so I have to leave this activity in the casual hands. I have included two different rubrics for marking one based on audience and vocabulary, the other I modified from another assignment. I have also included another teacher and student self evaluation as I have found that this is an excellent way for students to become more aware of what they have actually written. I'm not sure which rubric I will be using to actually assess their finished brochures.

Please be critical as I feel there is a lot of scope for improvement. Judy

I have added my Showbag Assignment I used with my class earlier this year. The class was very involved and enjoyed the activity which was part of my Literacy Groups during term 3.