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Learning Intention: Students are learning to identify the audience and purpose of text.
Learning Intention: Students are learning to identify the audience and purpose of text.
Success Criteria:
Success Criteria:
Students can:
Students can:
- retell events from a familiar text
- retell events from a familiar text
- use information, including titles and illustrations, to predict types of texts
- use information, including titles and illustrations, to predict types of texts
- ask questions using who, what, where and when
- ask questions using who, what, where and when
- use prepositional phrases that indicate time
- use prepositional phrases that indicate time
- use nouns in own writing
- use nouns in own writing
- write simple sentences with a subject-verb-object structure
- write simple sentences with a subject-verb-object structure
- use words to describe the shape, size and texture of an object.
- use words to describe the shape, size and texture of an object.
Introduce the text The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Look at the illustrations on the front cover and explore the way the pages increase in size as the text progresses. Note the ‘hole’ in the food illustrations, then read the title and ask students to predict what type of text it might be.
Introduce the text The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Look at the illustrations on the front cover and explore the way the pages increase in size as the text progresses. Note the ‘hole’ in the food illustrations, then read the title and ask students to predict what type of text it might be.
Activity: Using individual whiteboards, students draw or write what they may already know about the text (or their predictions of it if they are not familiar with the text). Invite students to share their responses.
Activity: Using individual whiteboards, students draw or write what they may already know about the text (or their predictions of it if they are not familiar with the text). Invite students to share their responses.
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a narrative.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a narrative.
Discuss how a narrative tells a story or series of events that could be real or imagined.
Discuss how a narrative tells a story or series of events that could be real or imagined.
What is the purpose of this text?
What is the purpose of this text?
Is it real or imagined or both?
Is it real or imagined or both?
For example, it tells a made-up story about a character (caterpillar) growing and changing (into a butterfly). However, it also gives real information about the life cycle of a caterpillar (that it hatches from an egg, forms a cocoon and turns into a butterfly).
For example, it tells a made-up story about a character (caterpillar) growing and changing (into a butterfly). However, it also gives real information about the life cycle of a caterpillar (that it hatches from an egg, forms a cocoon and turns into a butterfly).
Discuss how this text could be both entertaining and informative.
Discuss how this text could be both entertaining and informative.
Considering this, ask students who might enjoy reading this text and why.
Considering this, ask students who might enjoy reading this text and why.
Model giving an oral retell of the text.
Model giving an oral retell of the text.
Brainstorm words from the text and record on a word wall.
Brainstorm words from the text and record on a word wall.
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Model using words from the text and the word wall to write a sentence about an event from the text. For example:
Model using words from the text and the word wall to write a sentence about an event from the text. For example:
The caterpillar hatches from an egg.
The caterpillar hatches from an egg.
The caterpillar eats a lot of food.
The caterpillar eats a lot of food.
The caterpillar turns into a butterfly.
The caterpillar turns into a butterfly.
Students draw a picture of an event from the text. Then, using the sentence starter ‘The caterpillar __ __’, they write about this event.
Students draw a picture of an event from the text. Then, using the sentence starter ‘The caterpillar __ __’, they write about this event.
Encourage students to use words on display in the classroom to support them.
Encourage students to use words on display in the classroom to support them.
Too hard? Students draw a picture showing an event from the text. Encourage students to label their drawing using words on display.
Too hard? Students draw a picture showing an event from the text. Encourage students to label their drawing using words on display.
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