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FOCUS OUTCOME

This integrated unit of work has been designed around the Science & Technology unit, Earth & Its Surroundings. It focuses on the specific outcome: **ES S2.6** Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect the conditions on Earth. Specific __Indicators__ that are addressed are as follows: **-** Identifies the different planets and their roles in the solar system. **-** Accesses and records information about the sun and planets in the Solar System from video, computer software and books. **-** Selects appropriate images about the Solar System and develops ideas and questions to support the inclusion of images. **-** Uses and reports on an image to inform other about the Solar System. **__Related Literacy Outcomes and Indicators __** **TS2.2** Interacts effectively in groups and pairs, adopting a range of roles, uses a variety of media and uses various listening strategies for different situations. **-** Listens to others during groups discussions, responding appropriately. **-** Responds to different viewpoints in a discussion. **-** Listens to spoken presentations and responds appropriately and engages with the audience and uses appropriate body language when presenting. **WS2.9** Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well-structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. 
 * -** Recognises the need for conceptual images in displaying features of the solar system for inclusion in a multimodal text.
 * -**Contributes effectively in small groups to articulate key visual grammar features of a selected image representing the solar system.
 * -** Draws comparisons to visual grammar present in a whole image and a selected part of the image.
 * -** Structures text types (factual descriptions) in appropriate stages.
 * -** Uses some effective planning strategies when drafting a factual description.
 * -** Selects relevant information to use in the writing of their factual description.

**RS2.8** Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and the grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**-** Reconginises the social purpose of and the key grammatical features of a factual description <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**-** Identifies nouns, action verbs, adjectives and adverbs in a factual description and how these add to the meaning of the text <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**-** Uses grammatical information in shared reading activities, e.g. identify adjectives and how they add meaning to nouns <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**WS2.10** Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**-** Jointly constructs a range of text types such as a factual description

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