Hazardous Adventures: At What Cost?
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Hazardous Adventures: At What Cost?
ISBN: |
9781760675233 |
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Paperback |
Published: |
1 Jan 2019 |
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293
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$14.95 NZD
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Title:Hazardous Adventures: At What Cost?
Synopsis: Should adventurers put their lives at risk? List of texts: Dangerous rescues who pays? Adventurer rescued after four days at sea. Are robots better explorers than humans? Taking risks. Rescuers risk lives to save dog
Year level(s): 3 4 5 6
Reading level: R
Text type: Persuasive
Curriculum link: Health and Social Science. Geography
Content vocabulary: adrenalin adventurer adventurous capsized emergency service specialists engineers exploration hazardous isolated mission obligation rescue professionals rescuer robotic submarine routes thrill seekers travellers volunteer
High frequency words:
Key concepts: Individuals have a responsibility for their personal safety when undertaking hazardous endeavours. People make choices that can have positive or negative outcomes for both themselves and the community. Sometimes there is conflict between the rights of an individual and those of a group or community.
Reading strategies:
Phonics:
Paired text: Odysseus and the Cyclops + First-time Visitors
Supporting material: Lesson Plan - Hazardous Adventures: At What Cost?
Series: Flying Start to Literacy
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Series information:
Flying Start to Literacy is an award-winning comprehensive literacy program. It reflects best practice in literacy instruction and supports the systematic development of students’ reading strategies and skills.
Each Student Book is part of connected pair, a narrative book and an informative book, both presenting the same key concepts and vocabulary. These titles have been trialled with a range of readers, including English language learners.
Each pair of Student Books is supported by a Lesson Plan. These visually appealing resources are durable and easy-to-use. They integrate oral language, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension, writing and phonics.
Reading strategies, phonics and phonemic awareness and repetition of high-frequency words are all developed through this series, enhancing the reader’s fluency and comprehension. With an array of engaging titles to choose from, readers will laugh, explore and share in the adventure whilst learning and expanding their vocabulary.
Flying Start to Literacy resources are suitable for use as part of an early intervention program and provide effective support for English language learners.
This series is supported by a wealth of teacher resources, which can be obtained by visiting www.flyingstarttoliteracy.com.au
Teacher Resources
Flying Start to Literacy is supported by an array of free teacher resources, including:
- scope and sequence documents
- phonics and phonemic overviews for each reading stage
- reading and writing across the curriculum overviews of text types, text features, curriculum links, key concepts, and content vocabulary for the books at each of the reading stages
- records of reading behaviour are provided for books at each stage
- ongoing assessment checklist forms
- getting started tips and guidance
- title-level correlations to the Australian Curriculum
- information about the research that underpins the series
- percentage of decodable words tables for Levels 1—10.
Visit www.flyingstarttoliteracy.com.au to access these free resources.