This course is designed to foster a love for language through interactive and age-appropriate activities. Students will engage in reading and writing exercises that promote language development and comprehension across a range of text types, such as information reports, narratives, opinion pieces and news articles. The weekly writing task is based on the reading activities, allowing students the opportunity to practise what they've learnt, thus building essential skills for effective comprehension and communication. This course assists in the preparation for ICAS and the Opportunity Class Placement Test.
Course objectives
Week 1: Adverbs, identifying the main idea, cloze – subheadings, sensory imagery, fiction and non-fiction comprehension and analysis, paired texts comprehension
Week 2: Verbs, building vocabulary, vocabulary in context, word fill-in-the-blank, narrative comprehension, identifying the main idea
Week 3: Inferring theme, narrative comprehension, writing preparation – supporting theme, non-fiction comprehension
Week 4: Word fill-in-the-blank, inferring character, narrative comprehension, writing dynamic and static characters, character profiles, cloze – subheadings
Week 5: Similes, setting, literary description – comprehension and analysis, cloze – sentence gap-match and subheadings
Week 6: Argument, persuasive writing and poetry comprehension, PEEL structure, brainstorming practice, cloze – sentence gap-match, word fill-in-the-blank
Week 7: Anecdotes, persuasive letters comprehension and analysis, letter format, cloze – sentence gap-match and subheadings, idioms
Week 8: Text structure, diary entries, text analysis, poetry and non-fiction comprehension
Week 9: Reading and writing assessments & review, acrostic poetry, cloze
Week 10: Vocabulary quiz, Gothic literature, sensory imagery, poetry analysis
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| North Sydney Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Baulkham Hills HS | 0 | 0 |
| North Sydney Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Normanhurst Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Sydney Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Hornsby Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Sydney Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Fort Street HS | 0 | 0 |
| Girraween HS | 0 | 0 |
| St George Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Hurlstone Agriculture HS | 0 | 0 |
| Penrith Selective HS | 0 | 0 |
| NBSC Manly Campus | 0 | 0 |
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| North Sydney Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Baulkham Hills HS | 0 | 0 |
| North Sydney Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Normanhurst Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Sydney Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Hornsby Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Sydney Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Fort Street HS | 0 | 0 |
| Penrith Selective HS | 0 | 0 |
| Girraween HS | 0 | 0 |
| NBSC Manly Campus | 0 | 0 |
| St George Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Hurlstone Agriculture HS | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 14+ |
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| North Rocks Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Ermington Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Artarmon Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Matthew Pearce Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Dural Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Waitara Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Hurstville Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Summer Hills Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Lindfield Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Ryde Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Ironbark Ridge Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Chatswood Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Greystanes Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Neutral Bay Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Wahroonga Public School | 0 | 0 |
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| North Rocks Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Ermington Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Artarmon Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Matthew Pearce Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Dural Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Waitara Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Hurstville Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Ryde Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Ironbark Ridge Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Chatswood Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Woollahra Public School | 0 | 0 |
| Neutral Bay Public School | 0 | 0 |
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| Baulkham Hills HS | 0 | |
| North Sydney Girls HS | 0 | |
| North Sydney Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Hornsby Girls HS | 0 | |
| Normanhurst Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Sydney Boys HS | 0 | |
| Sydney Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Penrith Selective HS | 0 | 0 |
| Girraween HS | 0 | 0 |
| NBSC Manly Campus | 0 | |
| Fort Street HS | 0 | 0 |
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| Baulkham Hills HS | 0 | 0 |
| North Sydney Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| North Sydney Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Hornsby Girls HS | 0 | |
| Normanhurst Boys HS | 0 | 0 |
| Sydney Boys HS | 0 | |
| Sydney Girls HS | 0 | 0 |
| Penrith Selective HS | 0 | |
| Girraween HS | 0 | |
| NBSC Manly Campus | 0 | |
| Fort Street HS | 0 | |
| Others | 0 |
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| Arden Anglican School | 0 | 0 |
| Barker College | 0 | 0 |
| Brigidine College St Ives | 0 | 0 |
| Cranbrook School | 0 | 0 |
| Danebank School | 0 | 0 |
| Hills Grammar School | 0 | 0 |
| Kambala School | 0 | 0 |
| Knox Grammar School | 0 | 0 |
| Meriden School | 0 | 0 |
| MLC School | 0 | 0 |
| Monte Sant'Angelo | 0 | 0 |
| Newington College | 0 | 0 |
| Northholm Grammar | 0 | 0 |
| PLC Sydney | 0 | 0 |
| Pymble Ladies' College | 0 | 0 |
| Queenwood | 0 | 0 |
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| Reddam House | 0 | 0 |
| Santa Sabina College | 0 | 0 |
| SCEGGS Darlinghurst | 0 | 0 |
| Shore School | 0 | 0 |
| St Andrew's Cathedral | 0 | 0 |
| St Catherine's School | 0 | 0 |
| St Joseph's College | 0 | 0 |
| St Luke's Grammar | 0 | 0 |
| Sydney Grammar School | 0 | 0 |
| Tara Anglican School | 0 | 0 |
| The King's School | 0 | 0 |
| The Scots College | 0 | 0 |
| Trinity Grammar School | 0 | 0 |
| Wenona School | 0 | 0 |
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| Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6/7 | Year 8/9 | |
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| First Prize | Cynthia Ko | Adalyn Xiong | Allen Wang | Richelle Lam | Joyce Lee |
| Second Prize | Rohit Buchi | Matthew Cheung | Joanna Li | Francis Yang | Zachary Jiang |
| Third Prize | Aditi Jethwa | Avyaan Jethwa | Irina Sui | Irene Sun | |
| Highly Commended | Allen Lu Jason Choy |
Olivia Liu Jeffrey Song |
Isabella Choy Adam Wang |
Chloe Liu Elva Li |
Alice Yang William Wang |
| Year 5/6 | Year 7/8 | |
|---|---|---|
| First Prize | Rose Asgari | Aditya Paul |
| Second Prize | Ian Jung | Indraneel Jishnu |
| Third Prize | Richelle Lam | Cynthia Cai |
| Highly Commended | Jaithra Vasani Anooushka Vijay Anand Lehan (Olivia) Xu |
Anna Crowley |