Anzac Day Whole Class School Journal Resource Year 5 and 6 – Grey Angels SJ L3 2014

Description

Ignite Historical Understanding and Literacy Skills with the Anzac Day article ‘Grey Angels’. This ready-to-use resource, based on the captivating “Grey Angels” article from the Level 3 June 2014 School Journal, transforms learning about Anzac Day and World War I into an engaging experience. Perfect for structured literacy, it builds deep comprehension through the Science of Reading principles. Students will follow the journey of New Zealand nurses like Edna Pengelly, from their departure to the challenges of wartime service in Egypt and England.

What’s Inside? A comprehensive 90-slide slideshow, support worksheets, and graphic organisers guide you through three in-depth reading sessions, fostering vocabulary growth, grammar skills, and critical thinking. On days four and five, dive deeper with a GIST summarising task, a timeline text structure analysis, and thought-provoking critical thinking questions. Simply project the slideshow and distribute copies of the School Journal – this resource is designed for easy, whole-class implementation.

Key Benefits:

• Develops critical comprehension skills: monitoring, summarising, inferring, and using evidence.
• Enhances literacy through focused activities on clauses, sentence structure, figurative language, and more.
• Builds vocabulary with explicit instruction and engaging semantic activities.
• Aligns with the NZ English and Social Sciences Curriculums for Years 5-6.
• Promotes active learning and deeper connections to the text.