5 - Education and Literacy

General Outcome 4
Students will listen, speak, read, write, view,
and represent in German to enhance the clarity
and artistry of communication.
4.3 Attend to
Conventions
GRADE
5
Specific
Outcome
Enhance Artistry
Students will be able to:
4.2.4 choose descriptive language and sentence patterns to clarify and enhance ideas
SAMPLE TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Students make a poster to advertise a class bake sale. They brainstorm words, phrases, and design
features that will provide information and encourage the reader to attend.
• Students discuss words that have more than one meaning as they are encountered in texts (e.g.,
the different meanings of the word Vorstellung—imagination, introduction, performance).
• After reading a story, students identify simple and compound sentences from selected passages
shown on the overhead projector. Students look for examples of similar sentence types in their
own writing.
• Students experiment with using short sentences for emphasis or to convey excitement or action,
such as speed. They use longer sentences to explain cause and effect or relationships.
• Students identify descriptive words/phrases in an appropriate poem. The words/phrases are then
used in complete sentences to create an explanation of the poem’s imagery.
• Students, working in small groups, practise how to use descriptive words to enhance the clarity of
their sentences. Provide each group with a two- or three-word sentence. Students add appropriate
adjectives and adverbs both as single words and as phrases.
• Using an overhead projector, invite students to watch as you model how to combine several short
sentences into longer, more interesting and complex sentences. Students, working in pairs,
practise combining sentences. Students may later choose a personal piece of writing to revise by
combining sentences.
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