Lesson 9: Retelling a sequence of events using prepositional phrases
Learning Intention: Students are learning how authors use illustrations to enhance meaning in texts.
Success Criteria:
Students can:
use visual cues to interpret meaning in a text
ask questions using who, what, when, where, why or how
use prepositional phrases
use drawings to support planning and writing
use personal vocabulary and words on display to construct sentences.
Explain that the text, Spencer’s New Pet took the reader on a journey.
Create a list of places Spencer visited to display in the classroom.
Review the anchor chart of prepositions from Lesson 2 and prepositional phrases displayed on sentence frames.
Remind students that prepositional phrases describe where (place) or when (time) something is in relation to something else.
Model retelling the journey Spencer took through the park, using prepositional phrases. Highlight the use of visual cues, such as images and dotted lines, to retell events in sequence. In pairs, students use the story map to orally retell the sequence of events in the park. Support students to include prepositional phrases.
Draw, Talk, Write, Share
Too hard? Students label their story map using prepositions.
Too easy? Students write sentences that match the sequence of events on their story map.