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Focus: Exploring our Class Novel
Focus: Exploring our Class Novel
Learning Intention:
Learning Intention:
We are learning to use evidence from the text to explain what an intelligent robot might do to survive in the wilderness.
Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Hook:
Let's read another chapter of our Class Novel: The Wild Robot
Mini Lesson:- PPT on Canva
Recap key moments from the novel The Wild Robot where Roz has had to adapt or solve a problem in nature.
Ask:
What makes Roz intelligent?
How does she learn from her environment?
How does she interact with animals and use her surroundings?
Teacher Think-Aloud:
"If I think about Roz learning to camouflage, I remember when she watched the animals and realised she had to sit very still and cover herself with mud and leaves. That shows intelligence because she is observing and adapting her behaviour to stay safe."
Independent Practise:
Reader’s Notebook Prompt:
✏️ What would an intelligent robot do in the wilderness?
Use examples from The Wild Robot to explain your thinking.
Think about survival, learning, and interacting with animals.
Optional Sentence Starters:
An intelligent robot would…
In The Wild Robot, Roz shows she is smart when…
This shows she is learning because…
I think a robot would also need to…
Lesson 2
Lesson 2
Focus: Vocabulary
Learning Intention: We are learning to identify what a tier 2 vocabulary word is.
Focus: Vocabulary
Learning Intention: We are learning to identify what a tier 2 vocabulary word is.
Hook:
Read mentor text
As you’re reading students have a whiteboard writing down all tier 2 words they hear throughout.
Mini Lesson:
Unpack Tier 2 Words- Co create an anchor chart.
What are some tier 2 words you identified whilst listening to the Wild Robot.
Independent Practise:
“Word Detective” – Give students a short science or geography text with 3–5 bold Tier 3 words. In pairs, they use clues in the sentence to guess the meaning
Reflection
Lesson 3
Lesson 3
Focus: Vocabulary
Learning Intention: We are learning to identify what a tier 3 vocabulary word is.
Focus: Vocabulary
Learning Intention: We are learning to identify what a tier 3 vocabulary word is.
Hook:
“Have you ever ‘sensed’ something without being told? What does it mean to feel or sense something?”
Briefly introduce the Latin root “sent” or “sens” meaning to feel or to send. List some common words that include it (e.g., consent, resent, sensitive).
Mini Lesson:
Teacher shares Health Passage and together students identify what the Tier 3 words
Google Classroom Complete the passage and highlight the Tier 3 words, find the definition for each Tier 3 word.
Reflection
Share any Tier 2 words you cm across while reading today.
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