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LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum: Year 7
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LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum
Welcome to LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum. LiteracyPlanet is the most comprehensive online literacy resource for Australian schools. It features 1,000s of exercises to support the development of key literacy skills from the early learning years to Year 9 and up, including pre-reading, phonics, sight words, reading, spelling, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar and punctuation. An Australian-developed resource, LiteracyPlanet is founded on the beliefs that literacy skills are an essential foundation for life, and students learn better when they are engaged and having fun. Teachers are instrumental in helping their students develop these valuable skills, and need curriculum-aligned resources that are effective and easy to use. LiteracyPlanet’s content is developed by educators and designed to complement and support teaching of the Australian Curriculum, with a primary focus on English. This guide helps teachers understand how LiteracyPlanet is aligned to the Australian Curriculum, and links each exercise to the associated knowledge, skills and learning outcomes. Using this guide, teachers will be able to see how the content is mapped to the general outcomes and strands of the English Curriculum, and what is available for their day-to-day planning. Thank you for making LiteracyPlanet a resource in your school. We are excited to be a part of your students’ learning journey.
Adam McArthur CEO, LiteracyPlanet.
Content Summary
Pre-Reading
Sight Words
Targeting ages 3-5, pre-reading exercises are colourful and highly interactive. They cover the following three areas:
Sight words constitute two-thirds of all vocabulary in early reading and about half of all adult reading material.
Visual skills includes visually distinguishing differences and similarities, exploring concepts of directionality and identifying sizes, pairs and missing parts. Sequencing covers matching symbols, positional language, sequencing events and letter matching. Learning the alphabet deals exclusively with learning letter names (not sounds). The concept of vowels and upper and lower case letters is also explored, and an opportunity for revision is available at the end of the section.
LiteracyPlanet’s sight word section features two categories of words: Common Sight Words and More Sight Words. The 720 words listed under Common Sight Words include the 220 Dolch Words and other commonly occurring words in children’s literature. The section titled More Sight Words was compiled by Macquarie University’s Department of Cognitive Science based on studies into sight word acquisition. More than 1,400 words are covered by these two categories. All sight word lists are available on the LiteracyPlanet site, or teachers can create their own.
Each of these areas includes interactive tutorials to introduce key concepts and numerous exercises to test students’ knowledge and application.
Spelling
Phonics
The latter years spelling lists are predominantly made up of phonemic word grouping, word family groupings, prefix and suffix groupings, conventional spelling and etymological groupings.
The phonics content in LiteracyPlanet incorporates both an analytic and a synthetic phonics approach to target the early primary years. The key steps to reading acquisition are followed: 1. Phonemic awareness 2. Blending 3. Basic sight vocabulary 4. Double letter sounds 5. Long vowel rules 6. Soft ‘c’and ‘g’ 7. Complex double letter sounds (diphthongs) 8. Vowel sounds with ‘r’ 9. Silent letters Each new letter sound correspondence is introduced via a tutorial, followed by interactive exercises to test students’ understanding and application.
LiteracyPlanet offers a variety of spelling categories and word lists for years Foundation to Year 8.
Students are able to click on the sentence speaker in the toolbar to hear the word used in a sentence in word play games. There are 14 word play games to help students identify, familiarise and learn their spelling and sight words in a fun and engaging manner. Teachers can also create their own word lists to suit the varying needs of individual students, their class and school.
Reading Fluency
Grammar and Punctuation
LiteracyPlanet’s reading section provides students with a range of levelled extracts based on eight categories: Creatures, Disasters, Discoveries, Mysteries, People, Bizarre, Sport and Miscellaneous. With over 400 extracts, there is something to please even the most reluctant reader.
LiteracyPlanet’s grammar section includes over 500 exercises, and content covers the early primary years to senior schooling.
Students can select either fluency mode or reading mode to complete a reading exercise. Fluency mode records the words read per minute as students progress through the activity. Additionally, students can click on any unfamiliar words to hear them. These unfamiliar words are highlighted and voiced when the extract is played back at the recorded fluency rate and the words are displayed in the teacher report. Reading mode allows students to read the text independently. Both the fluency mode and reading mode feature general comprehension questions, in a multi-choice format to ensure that students have read the extract. Many of the reading fluency extracts also feature in the comprehension section.
Comprehension The comprehension section features hundreds of fiction and non-fiction extracts, covering a range of genres. These extracts are levelled using seven internationally recognised reading schemas: Reading Recovery, Fountas and Pinnell, PM, Developmental Reading Age (DRA), Rigby, Lexile and Wings. Students can select from eight categories: Creatures, Disasters, Discoveries, Mysteries, People, Bizarre, Sport and Miscellaneous. The questions that follow each extract target three key comprehension skills: literal, inferential, and metacognitive. These skills are targeted using twelve strategies for reading processing: main idea, facts and details, sequencing, cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, predicting, words in context, conclusions and inferences, fact and opinion, author’s purpose, figurative language, and summarising. Many of the texts in the comprehension section also feature in the reading fluency section.
Key concepts covered include: parts of speech, vocabulary, phrases, clauses, types of sentences, punctuation, and proof reading and editing. Students have the assistance of a grammar tip in each exercise, coupled with three examples, which are located in the tool bar. Each grammar tip provides a definition of the exercise to help students understand what they are being asked to do, to allow for a more independent learning experience.
Year 7 (Age 12-13) The Independent to Advanced Reader and Writer
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Year 7 | Content Overview
Content overview matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations. Year 7: The Independent to Advanced Reader and Writer Comprehension
Read texts such as short stories, letters, folk tales, free verse, newspaper articles, novel extracts, historical and scientific reports, autobiographies, poetry and discussions. Answer questions with a focus on the comprehension strategies: main idea; facts and details; sequencing; author’s purpose; figurative language; cause and effect; comparing and contrasting; inferring and drawing conclusions.
Matching ACARA Content Descriptors
Strand / Elaborations
ACELA1531 Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts, and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors.
Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; navigate, read and view learning area texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating: compose texts; use language to interact with others. Text knowledge: use knowledge of text structures; use knowledge of text cohesion. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.
ACELY1721 Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning, and vary according to audience and purpose.
Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating: compose texts; compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts. Text knowledge: use knowledge of text structures; use knowledge of text cohesion. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures: use knowledge of words and word groups. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.
ACELY1722 Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts.
Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; navigate, read and view learning area texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Text knowledge: use knowledge of text structures; use knowledge of text cohesion. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures: use knowledge of words and word groups. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.
ACELY1723 Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources.
Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; navigate, read and view learning area texts; listen and respond to learning area texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Text knowledge: use knowledge of text structures; use knowledge of text cohesion. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures: use knowledge of words and word groups; express opinion and point of view. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.
Spelling
Learn to spell extension words.
ACELA1539 Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins, for example Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to learn new words and how to spell them.
Literacy Elements addressed: Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary; use spelling knowledge.
Grammar and Punctuation
Learn about complex and compound sentences, clauses, theme and rheme, direct and indirect objects, transitive and intransitive verbs.
ACELA1532 Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses.
Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures: use knowledge of words and word groups. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.
ACELA1534 Recognise and understand that subordinate clauses embedded within noun groups/phrases are a common feature of written sentence structures, and increase the density of information.
Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures: use knowledge of words and word groups. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.
ACELA1536 Understand how modality is achieved through discriminating choices in modal verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns.
Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of words and word groups. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.
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Year 7 | Spelling, Comprehension
Spelling Find a comprehensive selection of spelling lists on the LiteracyPlanet website, or create your own.
Exercise
Literacy Knowledge and Skill Focus
Description
Alphabetical Word Monster
Reading
Decoding
Graphic
Categorising
Select the words in the correct alphabetical order
Word Order
Reading
Decoding
Graphic
Categorising
Select the words in the correct alphabetical order
Static Words
Reading
Decoding
Graphic
Word recognition
Game - identify the written word that matches the spoken word.
Word Snap
Reading
Decoding
Graphic
Word recognition
Game - identify the pairs of written words
Floating Words
Reading
Decoding
Graphic
Word recognition
Game - identify the written word that matches the spoken word
Word Finder
Reading
Decoding
Graphic
Word recognition
Game - identify the written words in a word find puzzle
Sentence Jumble
Reading
Decoding
Graphic
Word recognition
Game - listen to the spoken words and organise the corresponding written words into the correct word order
Word Builder 1
Writing
Encoding
Graphic
Blending
Build the correct word by choosing the correct grapheme and position to spell words
Word Builder 2
Writing
Encoding
Phonemic
Blending
Build the correct word by choosing the grapheme from the keyboard and typing it to spell words
Spell this Word
Writing
Encoding
Phonemic
Segmenting
Listen to the spoken word, segment the phonemes and choose the correct graphemes from the keyboard to spell the words
Dictation
Writing
Encoding
Phonemic
Segmenting
Listen to the spoken word, segment the words and choose the correct graphemes from the keyboard to spell the words and reproduce the spoken sentences
Flash Card
Writing
Encoding
Word recognition
Practise spelling the words from visual memory using the look, cover, write, check strategy
Memory Game
Reading
Fluency
Graphic
Word recognition
Game - identify the pairs of written words from memory
Jigsaw
Writing
Encoding
Phonemic
Blending
Build the correct word by choosing the correct pairs of grapheme to spell words
Comprehension Strategies covered: main idea (MI), predicting (P), author’s purpose (AP), compare and contrast (CC), facts and details (FD), conclusions and inferences (CI), words in context (WC), sequencing (S), fact and opinion (FO), cause and effect (CE), figurative language (FL) and summarising (S). All titles offer the option of a printable running record.
Topic
Title
Text Type
Genre
Reading Recovery Levels (PM Readers)
Fountas/ Pinnell
Developmental Reading Age (DRA)
Rigby
Lexile
Wings
Word Count
Creatures
Cane Toads in Australia
Narrative
Short story
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
456
Creatures
Mozzies Can Kill
Report
Information report
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
531
Creatures
A Shark Tried to Eat Me
Article
Newspaper article
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
418
Disasters
Colossus of Rhodes
Report
Information report
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
451
Disasters
The Warden’s Venom
Narrative
Novel extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
440
Disasters
Stuck In a Hole With Deadly Lizards
Narrative
Novel extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
388
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Title
Text Type
Genre
Fountas/ Pinnell
Developmental Reading Age (DRA)
Rigby
Lexile
Wings
Word Count
Disasters
Zlata’s Diary
Narrative
Novel extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
499
Discoveries
The Temple of Doom
Recount
Biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
508
Discoveries
The Discovery of Penicillin
Recount
Biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
551
Discoveries
Dead Sea Scrolls
Report
Information report
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
445
Discoveries
Dickon
Recount
Autobiographical speech
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
529
Mysteries
The Nazca Lines of Peru
Recount
Biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
529
Mysteries
The Mummy’s Curse
Report
Information report
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
337
Mysteries
Lucy Looks Into a Wardrobe
Report
Information report
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
478
People
Ramses II - Builder of Monuments
Narrative
Novel extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
489
People
Teenage Care
Recount
Biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
453
People
When I Fell From the Sky
Recount
Biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
505
People
The Mayor of Loserville
Recount
Biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
466
Bizarre
Cruel to Be Kind - Part 1
Recount
Biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
656
Bizarre
Cruel to Be Kind - Part 2
Recount
Autobiographical extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
533
Bizarre
What It Feels Like to Be Buried Alive in an Avalanche
Narrative
Novel extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
430
Bizarre
The Snake Charmer
Recount
Autobiography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
556
Sport
The Spirit of Football
Recount
Autobiography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
433
Sport
Same Tune Next Year
Report
Information report
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
483
Sport
Gold! Gold! Gold!
Exposition
Letter to editor
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
511
Miscellaneous
The Loner
Report
Historical report
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
143
Miscellaneous
The Watchful Warrior
Narrative
Novel extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
507
Miscellaneous
How God Made the Duck-Billed Platypus
Poetry
Free verse
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
290
Miscellaneous
The End of a Splendid Journey Part 1
Description
Novel extract
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
442
Miscellaneous
The End of a Splendid Journey Part 2
Report
Historical biography
Independent
Z
70
N/A
900 1100
N/A
503
Year 7 | Comprehension
Topic
Reading Recovery Levels (PM Readers)
8
Year 7 | Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and Punctuation Strand
Instruction Area
Selecting contractions
Writing
Punctuation
Graphic
Apostrophe marks
Matching words to their contractions
Apostrophes
Identifying the correct use of the apostrophe -1
Writing
Punctuation
Graphic
Apostrophe marks
Choosing the correct use of an apostrophe in a contraction
Punctuation
Apostrophes
Identifying the correct use of the apostrophe -2
Writing
Punctuation
Graphic
Apostrophe marks
Choosing the correct use of an apostrophe in a contraction
Punctuation
Apostrophes
Correct use of apostrophes in sentences - 1
Writing
Punctuation
Graphic
Apostrophe marks
Identifying correct apostrophe usage on the end of a word/name
Punctuation
Apostrophes
Correct use of apostrophes in sentences - 2
Writing
Punctuation
Graphic
Apostrophe marks
Identifying correct apostrophe usage on the end of a word/name
Kinds of sentences
Interrogative types
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Interrogatives
Identifying interrogative sentences
Kinds of sentences
Text types
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Types of sentences
Understanding the difference between interrogative, declarative, imperative and exclamatory
Sentences beginnings
Adjectives (attributes)
Beginning match - 1
Writing
Grammar
Parts of speech
Adjectives (attributes)
Understanding how to use sentence endings on sentences that begin with an adjective
Sentences beginnings
Adjectives (attributes)
Beginning match - 2
Writing
Grammar
Parts of speech
Adjectives (attributes)
Understanding how to use sentence endings on sentences that begin with an adjective
Sentences beginnings
Adverbs (circumstance)
Beginning match - 1
Writing
Grammar
Parts of speech
Adverbs (circumstance)
Understanding how to use sentence endings on sentences that begin with an adverb
Sentences beginnings
Adverbs (circumstance)
Beginning match - 2
Writing
Grammar
Parts of speech
Adverbs (circumstance)
Understanding how to use sentence endings on sentences that begin with an adverb
Types of sentences
Revision
Identifying types
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Types of sentences
Identifying the different types of sentences
Types of sentences
Compound sentences
Completing compound sentences
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Types of sentences
Completing compound sentences using the correct punctuation and conjunctions
Types of sentences
Complex sentences
Clauses in complex sentences
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Types of sentences
Identifying dependent/subordinate and independent/principal clauses in a sentence
Types of sentences
Complex sentences
Connecting complex sentences
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Types of sentences
Using subordinating conjunctions to form a complex sentence
Types of sentences
Complexcompound sentences
Identifying clauses
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Types of sentences
Identifying dependent/subordinate and independent/principal clauses in a sentence
Types of sentences
Complexcompound sentences
Punctuating sentences
Writing
Punctuation
Graphic
Compound sentence structure
Applying the correct punctuation to a compound-complex sentence
Parts of a sentence
Theme and rheme
Identify the rheme
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Rheme
Identifying rheme in a sentence
Parts of a sentence
Direct and indirect object
Identify the direct and indirect object
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Objects
Identifying direct and indirect objects in a sentence
Parts of a sentence
Transitive/ intransitive verbs
Transitive or intransitive verb
Writing
Grammar
Sentences
Verbs
Identifying transitive and intransitive verbs of a sentence
Topic
Category
Exercise
Punctuation
Apostrophes
Punctuation
Knowledge
Learning Objective
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