Learning Intention: We are learning to explore how creative language, imagery and symbol improve our enjoyment in texts.
Success Criteria:
Students can:
- use wordplay such as rhyme and alliteration to evoke enjoyment
- create a simple sentence, that includes imagery
- follow three-part instructions to create an image
- respond to spoken questions.
Re-read the text This is a ball and encourage students to choral read the text.
Activity: Explain how a spoken sentence can be broken into words. Place 4 hoops on the floor and model jumping into hoops as each word in a sentence is spoken. Provide students with a sentence to segment.
For example, ‘The rocket went zoom’, ‘The rocket went swoosh’. Students identify the number of words in the sentence.
Think about the images and listen carefully to the poem. Discuss the imagery in the poem and ask students which image they think the poem describes. Prompt students to share how they know the poem is about playing in the rain. Provide opportunities for responses and support students to identify the onomatopoeia drip-drop, splish-splash, woosh and splosh.
Re-read the words ‘giggles’ and ‘squeal’ and explain how the onomatopoeia word ‘giggles’ helps readers to visualise or see someone who is happy, while ‘squeal’ tells readers that the child playing in the rain is excited and filled with joy.
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Model segmenting and reconstructing a sentence.
‘She can jump’.
Students segment and reconstruct a sentence.
Too easy? Students reconstruct a sentence and write a sentence, just as, I can jump and splash.
Too hard? Students cut and paste, and match ‘I can jump’ to the baseboard.