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Make it happen: plan a party

Make it happen: plan a party

TLF ID L8289

Prepare an invitation to your birthday party. Include a statement, photo and important details such as address, phone number and reply date. Choose items of food to buy for the party. Use a map to select shops where you can buy the food you need. Complete a photo album of the party by selecting captions to match the photos.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • Provides a model of the social purpose and features of an invitation.
  • Illustrates the purpose and features of written communication.
  • Provides feedback when students make decisions in response to information in the text and audio.
  • Provides a caption-matching exercise for students to apply comprehension skills.
  • Includes audio to support reading and comprehension.
  • Facilitates modelling and class participation via an interactive whiteboard. For example, strong colours and clear graphics are easily visible in a classroom setting.
Year level

F; 1; 2

Topics Text structure Reading Reading comprehension Informative texts Picture books Listening comprehension Illustration Narratives Visual texts Text types Vocabularies Multimodal texts Text purpose
Learning area
  • English

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Penn Short and Erica Dale\; MassMedia Studios Pty Ltd
  • Organization: Penn Short and Erica Dale\; MassMedia Studios Pty Ltd
  • Description: Script writer
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.massmedia.com.au/
  • Name: Marcelle Holliday
  • Organization: Marcelle Holliday
  • Description: Subject matter expert
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • Name: MassMedia Studios
  • Organization: MassMedia Studios
  • Description: Technical implementer
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.massmedia.com.au/
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Person: Lynda Matthews
  • Description: Educational validator
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Colour independence
  • Device independence
  • Hearing independence
  • Generic
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2016, except where indicated under Acknowledgements. This material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/.