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Specific language
skills encouraged
The skills of sequencing
an explanation or hypothesis; effective weighing and ordering of ideas
so as to enhance meaning. The language of tentative reasoning in offering
alternative explanations. The need to draw on an increasingly wide range
of geographical factors in framing ideas demands sophisticated drafting
and editing skills.
Examples of connections
to literacy
- language of causality/reason, eg because, therefore, in the light of, thus, however
- develop, explain,
explore and communicate ideas
- read increasingly
complex non-fiction texts, selecting essential points and using inference
and deduction
- listen perceptively
and be sensitive to the development of discussion, conveying meaning
clearly and sustaining interest in precise non-fiction writing with
clear points of view
- show critical
responses and select and analyse information
Examples of connections
to geography programme of study
- analyse and evaluate
evidence and draw conclusions (1d)
- communicate in
appropriate ways (1f)
- explain physical
and human features (3c)
- explain changes
(3d)
- explain how places
are interdependent (3e)
- explain physical
and human processes (4b)
- causes and effects
of a hazard (6cii)
- components and
links in the water cycle (6dii)
- causes and effects
of population change (6fii)
- how and why economic
activity changes (6hiii)
- how conflicting
demands on an environment arise (6ji)
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