English is the Key Learning Area where students develop knowledge, skills and understandings about English language and literature. The students will be actively engaged in the development of skills through:

This term in English, Amaroo will:

• read and view a variety of  imaginative and informative texts. They will focus on  books by author Margaret Wild as an author study.
• create imaginative and  informative  texts on familiar topics for known readers by planning, proofreading and editing their own writing.

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING in ENGLISH

• Listening to your child read every night
• Reading to your child
• Stop reading when it is becoming a battle or if the book is too challenging. Retry tomorrow or read the remainder together. At challenging words prompt “What would make sense and look right?
• Ask your child to keep a diary of special events such as a diary 

The following approach can help when students practise their spelling:

• Look carefully at the word
• Say the word
• Cover the word
• Write the word from memory
• Uncover and check the spelling against the correct word.
• Repeat