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=Curriculum=

The year level best suited for this lesson found in relation to the department of education curriculum scope and sequence for English is at a year 6 level and higher. There are four different areas found in scope and sequence for English which are listening and speaking, reading, viewing and writing. These four levels determine what a student should have learnt by that year level. Each level is broken up into three parts which are imagination, information and argument. The main focus for this lesson is on the students’ imagination because students are required to recreate and retell a story from a book they are reading in class.

= Listening & Speaking =

The minimum requirements need for this lesson in regards to scope and sequences for listening and speaking are discovered at a year 5 level. At this stage students are able to retell stories with a twist, choral speaking and dramatization. These skills are needed for a student to be competent for this lesson because they need to understand how to retell a story with that dramatization to make their play entertaining and for an audience to understand the meaning of the story.

= Reading =

The minimum requirements need for this lesson in regards to scope and sequences for listening and speaking are discovered at a year 6 level. At this level for year 6 students’ are required to read and understand narrative poems, play scripts and young adolescent fiction books. These skills are required for our lesson because students have to be able to understand and critically analysis the book they are reading to be able to transform it into a play. Furthermore students need to be competent in understand their own play so they can make sure it makes sense before they are required to perform. = = = Viewing =

The minimum requirements need for this lesson in regards to scope and sequences for listening and speaking are discovered at a year 6 level. At this level students are required to understand a range of texts including films, graphic novels, painting’s from another country, picture books including adventure and television programs. Having students understand a range of texts is important for this lesson because students are able to create a meaning and analysis more than one form text. This works well with this lesson because if the year level is not focusing on a book they can always transform a film or a painting into their own story and maybe with a different ending or message.

= Writing =

The minimum requirements need for this lesson in regards to scope and sequences for listening and speaking are discovered at a year 7 level. At this level students are required to be able to understand how to write ballads, fantasy, horror stories and play scripts. This part of the lesson will require the most amount of attention from the classroom teacher. Although the level for writing is higher than the required level for this lesson, through the reading and viewing of scripts and stories students are still aware of what a play script is. If the teacher is able to organise lessons for the students on how to write scripts through the use of interactive white boards or videos this may assist in the development of student learning.