Travel to seven places in Australia and New Zealand. Identify each location to win a souvenir. Scan texts and images to get clues. Find all seven locations to win a holiday. This learning object is the second in a series of three objects that progressively increases in difficulty.
Topics:
Abstraction; Capitalisation; Comprehension; English language; Geographic location; Literary descriptions; Maps; Nouns; Page layout; Proper nouns; Reading; Scanning; Text types; Vocabularies
Keywords:
Abstraction, Capitalisation, Comprehension, English language, Geographic location, Literary descriptions, Maps, Nouns, Page layout, Proper nouns, Reading, Scanning, Text types, Vocabularies
Learning area:
English
Strand:
Literacy
Concept:
Comprehension; Critical literacy; Searching
Audience user level:
5; 6; 7; 8; 9
Audience type:
Student
Age range:
9-15
Audience sector:
School
Key learning objectives:
Students use scanning strategies to decode written and visual texts.
Students construct literal and inferential meaning from written and visual texts.
Students identify and distinguish between proper nouns within written and visual texts.
Educational value:
Introduces scanning strategies to identify proper nouns.
Highlights capitalised words to visually reinforce scanning strategies.
Features a range of authentic texts and images depicting or referring to places in Australia and New Zealand.
Tests identification of place names via simplified maps.
Gazetteer:ID: NSW56500
; State ID: NSW
; Name: SYDNEY
; Longitude: 151.20960
; Latitude: -33.86520
Meta-metadata language:
ENGLISH
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