Description
Integrate HASS into Writing with Our Supplemental Writing Pack!
Enhance your classroom’s writing instruction while seamlessly integrating the Australian Curriculum's Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) into your writing lessons. This resource supports educators in making writing instruction more engaging and relevant to HASS topics.
What’s Included:
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Vocabulary Presentations: Introduce key HASS terms with a focus on decoding and understanding. Each vocabulary presentation includes:
- Word Segmentation: Helps students break down and decode each term.
- Contextual Usage: Provides sentences to infer meaning and see the word in action.
- Student-Friendly Definitions: Includes definitions, morphology, and synonyms to deepen understanding.
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Supporting Vocabulary Writing Templates: Reinforce vocabulary with structured writing practice.
- Sentence Writing Templates: Students write sentences using vocabulary words, with templates that vary in specificity and include options for direct use or glue-in activity.
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Slides for Daily Review: Incorporate sentence-level activities into your daily reviews or lessons by inserting these slides into your template.
- Activities: Includes joining sentences with conjunctions, identifying complete sentences vs. fragments, appositives and expanding sentence kernels.
- Flexible Use: Choose slides that align with the HASS topics you’ve covered or use them as standalone lessons.
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Scrambled Sentence Activities: Hands-on practice for sentence construction.
- Level-Based Scrambles: Two levels of difficulty, including individual word pieces and clusters for varying skill levels.
- Conjunction Matching: Students match sentence stems ending with 'because,' 'but,' or 'so,' to their matching endings enhancing their understanding of sentence structure and meanings of conjunctions.
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Paragraph-Building Activities: Develop students’ writing skills with progressively challenging tasks.
- Topic Sentence Improvement: Students refine pre-written topic sentences, making them clearer and more engaging.
- Topic Sentence Creation: Given a theme or topic, students craft their own topic sentences that align with the main idea.
- Paragraph Elaboration: Students expand basic paragraphs by adding more details and information.
- Detail Expansion: Students brainstorm and write three supporting details for a given topic sentence.
- Paragraph Planning and Drafting: Students are guided to plan their paragraph structure before writing a complete draft.
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Editing Activities: Enhance sentence structure, meaning, and content with targeted editing exercises.
- Sentence Rearrangement: Students work on improving sentence clarity by rearranging words and phrases, adding detail or including conjunctions and appositives.
- Focus on Meaning: Unlike traditional editing exercises, these activities are designed to improve the content and structure rather than correcting capitalization, punctuation, or spelling errors.
Why Choose This Resource?
- Alignment with The Writing Revolution® : Perfect for teachers familiar with the book, our resource aligns well with its principles, ensuring effective integration into your writing instruction.
- Enhanced Vocabulary Instruction: Supports students in understanding and using key HASS terms effectively.
- Versatile Application: Use the slides for daily reviews or focused lessons, use the activities for stand alone lessons or regular literacy rotation activities.
- Aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum and perfect supplemental resources to our HASS units.
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Vocabulary Resources and Sentences Level Resources are broken into the following topics:
- Places and Connections
- First Nations
- Significant People and Places
- Technological Developments
Elevate your HASS and writing instruction with our resource, designed to engage students and reinforce their learning across subjects. Perfect for teachers looking to integrate content-rich vocabulary and writing practice in a meaningful way.
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