Vacation Literacy Cover page

Literacy Topics:
Vocabulary Building
Railway Children Novel Study Ch 3 Questions and Tasks
Synonyms/Antonyms, Clauses
Rewriting A Scene from Chapter 2
Summarizing Chapter 4
Writing Journal Responses to Poetry

Literacy Expectations:
Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary: Railway Children
Expectations:
- use known spellings to work out the spelling of related words
- use dictionaries efficiently and carry out IT spell checks
- collect synonyms and antonyms and investigate shades of meaning

Grammar and Punctuation
Expectations:
- investigate clauses within sentences and how they are connected

Reading: Novel and Note-taking
Expectations:
- consider how characters are presented, and their different perspectives
- skim-read to gain overall sense of a text and scan for specific information

Writing
Expectations:
- write new scenes or characters into a story, or write from another view point
- use writing to summarize novel chapter (e.g. paragraphs, sections, chapters)
- write a commentary on an issue, setting out and justifying a personal view

List of Attachments
1. Writing Vocabulary in Sentences and answering Novel Study Questions
2. Using Synonyms/Antonyms, and Punctuating Clauses
3. Distinguishing between main (independent) clause and dependent clause (clause links)
4. Writing journal responses to Poetry Handouts: School Buses, Bed Sore and Song

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Guided Practice (see attached lessons for students studying at home)

Independent Practice:
1. All Literacy exercises except Journals are due February 21st
2. Journals due February 22nd.