Downunder Literature

Reading and Writing

 

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Reading aloud is a skill that requires the student to understand the relationship between intonation, punctuation  and emphasis. Oral presentation of the passages can be practised with the student paying attention to tone, volume, intonation and body language.

Children learn how to write by reading. You can use dictation passages as starters for further writing exercises.

For example:

· Make a list of things that happen in the extract, use your list to rewrite the story.

· Rewrite an extract on a separate page. How well did you do?

· Turn a narrative into a report.

· Using a biography or history piece, research further and write about something that you have learned.

· Have your students find an extract that they liked and use it as a pattern for their own piece.

This is an excerpt taken from Downunder Dictation and Teacher’s Guide

Dictation

Copy work

Spelling

Comprehension

Punctuation

Writing

Text types

Resource Index

· Beatrix Potter for Beginners

· Mother Goose Copy work

· Aesop’s Fables Copy work

· Downunder Copy work Printing Book One

· Downunder Copy Work Cursive Book Two

· Downunder Copy Work Advanced Cursive Book Three

· Downunder Dictation and Teacher’s Guide

· Emma Serl’s Primary Language Lessons