Our Planet, Our Future

Unit Objectives

• Build background knowledge of natural resources and how they can be used sustainably.

• Use comprehension strategies (predicting, questioning, inferring, summarising, visualising, connecting) to make meaning across persuasive, narrative and informative texts.

• Identify the structure and language of a persuasive PEEL paragraph (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link).

• Plan, draft, revise, edit and publish persuasive PEEL paragraphs about a chosen natural resource.

• Construct complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions to elaborate ideas and explain reasons.

• Apply revising and editing strategies to improve their own and peers' writing.

Success Criteria

✅ Summarise the main idea of an informative or persuasive text in their own words.

✅ Use evidence from the text and images to infer characters' or authors' opinions.

✅ Identify the four parts of a PEEL paragraph in a mentor text.

✅ Write at least one persuasive PEEL paragraph about a natural resource.

✅ Include at least three complex sentences using a variety of subordinating conjunctions.

✅ Revise their writing for clarity and structure, and edit for grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Learning Intention

• I can understand what a resource is.

• I can predict the topic and audience of a persuasive text.

Success Criteria

• I can use the title, cover and pictures to predict what an author wants the reader to think or do.

What is a natural resource?

-Turn and talk-

What are some examples of a natural resource?

-Find your personal dictionary-

Add resource to a word web at the front of your dictionary.

Write the definition for resource in your dictionary.

The first page.

🎯 Who?

🎯 What?

🎯 Where?

🎯 Who is the audience?

What is the evidence to support your ideas?