We are continuing to explore informative texts in English and our students are creating some amazing power points on famous people and places around the world. When reading and responding to these texts, they identify literal meaning, main ideas and supporting detail, describing the connection between images and meaning of accompanying words.

In publishing an informative text with a supporting digital image, the students make conscious choices of language features and vocabulary to add detail, build cohesion and inform the audience. They select and position images to extend reader understanding of the text.

Most students have successfully published several informative digital texts with diverse topics using appropriate titles, headings to organise the information, nouns, proper nouns, pronouns and verbs to link ideas. They used simple and/or compound sentences and connected ideas using conjunctions, topic-specific vocabulary and mostly, accurate spelling and punctuation. These topics included: The Great Barrier Reef, Dame Nellie Melba, The Sydney Opera House, Douglas Mawson, Mary Mackillop, The Eiffel Tower, Elephants and The Sahara, Marie Curie and Coco Chanel. With a range of topics to explore, most students enjoy these combined lessons with their peers.

Warm regards,

S3 and S4 Staff and Students.