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Literacy – Reading Comprehension
The usual Reading Comprehension is where a teacher gives the students a series of questions and they must find the answers in the text or picture.
In this exercise the students had to develop a set of instructions for the class to follow.
The literacy skills involved were:
☺using commas to separate lists of instructions but using and with no comma before the final words
☺using the prepositions next, between, except, on and with
☺using numerals as part of the instructions
☺using their knowledge of the words for various colours.
Listed below are the instructions the students developed in shared writing.
1.The man with the axe has blue pants and jumper, yellow hat and a grey and brown axe.
2.Colour the dog being carried black and white.
3.The dog looking up is brown.
4.The chook next to the bowl is brown with a red comb.
5.The child between the goat and the owl has blonde hair, green
shirt and blue trousers.
6.Draw a cat on the stump.
7.Colour all of the boys’ pants brown except for the boy with fruit.
8.How many mushrooms can you colour?
Please discuss this work with your child, praise them for work well done and help them if they were unable to complete it. Record your comments here ……
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ICT (Information & Communication Technology)
Term 2 2003
Task:To produce a personalised notepad using computerskills
FilePage SetupMarginstop1 cm
bottom1 cm
left1 cm
right1 cm
Paper size
Landscape
Default
2 columns (You will now have 2 A 5 pages )
Insert a Text Box in the bottom left hand corner.
Insert a Picture in the Text Box.
Remove the lines of the box by selecting No Line.
Use Wordart to make a heading. Have the letters
Empty so you can colour them in.
Copy your heading and move it to the other side of the
page.
Insert a large picture in the middle of this page.
Turn it into a Watermark.
View Toolbars Customize Drawing Image Control
Drag and Drop Image Control into your toolbar.
Highlight picture – click on Image Control – Select Watermark
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