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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.
Revisit the ending of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Discuss what the caterpillar did after he finished eating through all the different foods over the week (built a house, nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed out of the cocoon).
Revisit the ending of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Discuss what the caterpillar did after he finished eating through all the different foods over the week (built a house, nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed out of the cocoon).
What did the caterpillar do after he finished eating through all the different foods over the week?
What did the caterpillar do after he finished eating through all the different foods over the week?
(built a house, nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed out of the cocoon).
(built a house, nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed out of the cocoon).
Verbs are action words, they describe something that a person or thing does.
Verbs are action words, they describe something that a person or thing does.
Write the sentence:
Write the sentence:
The caterpillar ate spinach.
The caterpillar ate spinach.
A simple sentence can contain a noun (subject), verb and object to convey an idea. Using different coloured markers, underline the subject (caterpillar) verb (ate) and the object (spinach) in the modelled example.
A simple sentence can contain a noun (subject), verb and object to convey an idea. Using different coloured markers, underline the subject (caterpillar) verb (ate) and the object (spinach) in the modelled example.
Activity: Provide students with modelling clay to make and act out a scene from the text showing an action that the caterpillar took. Encourage students to use verbs other than ‘ate’.
Activity: Provide students with modelling clay to make and act out a scene from the text showing an action that the caterpillar took. Encourage students to use verbs other than ‘ate’.
For example: the caterpillar crawled out of the egg, the caterpillar built a cocoon.
For example: the caterpillar crawled out of the egg, the caterpillar built a cocoon.
Students share their sentences orally with a partner
Students share their sentences orally with a partner
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Select a student’s response and, using an interactive writing strategy, co-construct writing a sentence with the subject-verb-object structure.
Select a student’s response and, using an interactive writing strategy, co-construct writing a sentence with the subject-verb-object structure.
Students independently write a sentence using the subject-verb-object structure based on their model from activity 4.
Students independently write a sentence using the subject-verb-object structure based on their model from activity 4.
Too hard? Students are supported to write a sentence using a subject and verb. For example, The caterpillar ate/crawled/slept.
Too hard? Students are supported to write a sentence using a subject and verb. For example, The caterpillar ate/crawled/slept.
Too easy? Students include a prepositional phrase indicating time. For example, On Sunday the caterpillar built a house.
Too easy? Students include a prepositional phrase indicating time. For example, On Sunday the caterpillar built a house.
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