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Contents Preface....................................................................................vii Acknowledgements.................................................................viii 1 Texts—purpose and audience ................................... 1 What is a text?................................................................. 1 Purpose and audience............................................................. 1 News article........................................................................... 3 ‘Bow wow vows’ Advertisement........................................................................ 4 Praise mayonnaise Film review............................................................................. 5 Rabbit-Proof Fence Magazine covers..................................................................... 6 Australian Cyclist Website homepage................................................................. 7 The Smith Family website 2 Texts and contexts.................................................. 9 What is context?............................................................... 9 Personal context..................................................................... 9 As the Twig is Bent Social and cultural context.....................................................11 ‘World Environment Day’ Historical context...................................................................13 Diary of Samuel Pepys Language Introducing nouns............................................... 16 3 Narrative texts ..................................................... 19 What is a narrative?..........................................................19 Structure of a narrative...........................................................19 Poems...................................................................................20 ‘Storytime’ Plays and films.......................................................................22 ‘Meeting Count Dracula’ Novels...................................................................................24 Lockie Leonard: Human Torpedo Comic strips..........................................................................26 Ginger Meggs Language Common and proper nouns.................................26 Contents iii
4 Recounting........................................................... 30 What is a recount?...........................................................30 Autobiography.......................................................................30 Mao’s Last Dancer Diary.....................................................................................33 Zlata’s Diary Language Collective and abstract nouns..............................35 5 Informing ............................................................. 38 What is an information report?..........................................38 Tsunami information report....................................................38 ‘Awesome waves’ Koala information report........................................................40 ‘Koalas’ Language Adjectives...........................................................43 6 How well do you spell?........................................... 45 Using a dictionary.................................................................45 Test your spelling...................................................................47 Confusing pairs.....................................................................48 Spelling rules.........................................................................50 7 Looking at the movies............................................ 54 Camera shots........................................................................54 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Film posters...........................................................................58 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Shrek 2 8 The Dreaming and beyond...................................... 64 Stories from the Dreaming......................................................64 ‘Mundiba and the honey’ The dispossessed...................................................................66 ‘We are going’ The stolen children................................................................68 ‘John’s story’ Language <strong>English</strong> word origins.............................................69 9 Words in action..................................................... 74 Using a thesaurus..................................................................74 Vocabulary building...............................................................76 Synonyms and antonyms.......................................................78 Occupational words...............................................................80 iv Contents
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Page 7 and 8: 15 Fantasy ........................
Page 9 and 10: Acknowledgements The author and pub
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Page 13 and 14: Advertisement Fresh eggs, Creamier
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Page 17 and 18: • • • Identifying purpose and
Page 19 and 20: In adulthood, Oodgeroo turned to po
Page 21 and 22: So serious have these problems beco
Page 23 and 24: Diary Samuel Pepys is famous for hi
Page 25 and 26: Language Introducing nouns A noun i
Page 27 and 28: Nouns—qualities Complete each sen
Page 29 and 30: Through the dialogue of the charact
Page 31 and 32: Plays and films Plays, films, telev
Page 33 and 34: Novels A novel has all the features
Page 35 and 36: Comic strips Comic strips are narra
Page 37 and 38: Using proper and common nouns to co
Page 39 and 40: 4 Recounting What is a recount? Rec
Page 41 and 42: How well did you read? 1 Why had th
Page 43 and 44: Tuesday, 7 July 1992 Dear Mimmy, Th
Page 45 and 46: Animals Select the correct collecti
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Checking spelling and meaning Write
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23 The day of the year when an even
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Spelling rules How to form noun plu
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Adding ‘ing’ 1 When changing th
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7 Looking at the movies Camera shot
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2 Look at the White Witch and the s
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Film posters Charlie and the Chocol
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Shrek 2 There have been four Shrek
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• • • Creating a fantasy stor
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8 The Dreaming and beyond Stories f
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The dispossessed Oodgeroo Noonuccal
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The stolen children The words ‘th
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The English also borrowed new words
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Greek words in English There are ma
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9 Words in action Your success as a
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Vocabulary building Key words For e
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Synonyms and antonyms A synonym is
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Using antonyms Select an antonym fr
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10 Multimedia texts What is a multi
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Understanding multimedia 1 What is
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3 List the five major sections on t
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Understanding multimedia 1 What doe
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2 Design a website Imagine that you
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Plot The plot is the novel’s stor
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Structure A winter scene District i
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Describing the setting 1 Where is t
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•• Robyn •• Meeting the cha
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Determination But I wondered if Cap
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12 Poets paint word pictures What i
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Identifying similes Identify the si
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Comprehending the metaphor 1 Throug
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6 ‘And howls and hollos long and
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5 Who are the ‘surgeons in shirt-
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13 The short story What is a short
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All the same, there was something s
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3 Why don’t the other kids like t
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14 Heroes What is a hero? A hero is
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How well did you read? 1 What is th
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out to his father for help, but Dae
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8 The sailors tied him to the mast
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Modality can be strong, moderate or
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15 Fantasy What is fantasy? Fantasy
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4 ‘How cold you look’. What phy
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How well did you read? 1 What is th
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lnserting adverbs Replace the words
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16 Let’s punctuate When we are sp
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Full stops, question marks and excl
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Commas and capitals Rewrite the fol
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8 the ranger declared californian r
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Whose indicates possession. Whose c
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How well do you read? 1 Why had the
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Clauses Language Clauses and animal
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Animal words The sounds of animals
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the ground trembling, the grass tea
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Giving a speech Careful planning an
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Presentation suggestions 1 Use your
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Your imaginary speech I am: Introdu
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Back-of-the-book dictionary accumul
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