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The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle
PREPRIMARY ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
Sub Strand: Language for Interaction.
ACELA1429: Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes (reading and viewing and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The caterpillar within the narrative, eats different fruits, vegetables and sugary foods each day to make a cocoon at the end of the week. The children will be required to make a digital collage, on picollage, of the needs of people and caterpillars have. These needs include: eating, sleeping, drinking etc.
Sub Strand: Text Structure and Organisation.
ACELA1430: Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes (reading and viewing, writing and *speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children will compose a digital video (to understand that texts that many forms) of their interpretation of how the narrative goes of the very hungry caterpillar. The children will use the green screening app to compose a video of the sequence of the narrative.
Sub Strand: Text Structure and Organisation.
ACELA1432: Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences (reading and viewing and writing).
- ACTIVITY: The children will be required to remaking sentences from the narrative. The parts of the sentence, which include the letters, full stops and capital letters, will be placed on pegs. the children will place the pegs on strong to make the sentences, in the correct order.
Sub Strand: Expressing and Developing Ideas.
ACELA1435: Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (reading and viewing, writing and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children are required to summarise the narrative story. the children will use the application called explain everything, to relay their understanding of the text. The children can draw pictures and write text/ or words to describe the meaning.
Sub Strand: Phonics and Word Knowledge.
ACELA1817: Know how to read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words (reading and viewing, and writing).
- ACTIVITY: The educator and the children will complete a shared reading procedure to sound out unknown words that are throughout the narrative. The children will be required to read out loud and identify their high frequency words within the narrative. These high frequency words will come from their word wall.
Sub Strand: Expressing and Developing Ideas.
ACELA1786: Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (reading and viewing).
- ACTIVITY: The children will be required to use printed sequencing card of pictures from the book. They will use their contextual understanding to correctly sequence the cards to match the book's narrative (Images from the children's literature to make the meaning conveyed by the author).
Sub Strand: Phonics and Word Knowledge.
ACELA1820: Write consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words by representing some sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words (writing and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children will spell out/ write out their CVC words using letter leaves. This activity will require the children to find leaves in the outdoor environment, then write one letter on each leaf to spell out a CVC word.
LITERATURE
Sub Strand: Responding to Literature.
ACELT1577: Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators (reading and writing, and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children are required to make a picollage of their favourite children literature/ book. The educator will use The Very Hungry Caterpillar to demonstrate how the end product will look. The picollage will include the authors name, the child's favourite character, their favourite part during the book and explaining what the narrative is about. As the children are only Preprimary, they will be using drawing and illustrations to compose their picollage.
Sub Strand: Responding to Literaure.
ACELT1783: Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (reading and viewing, writing, and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: Each child will complete a wordsalad (application on iPads) on the feelings and emotions they felt during the guided reading. These feelings and emotions include happy, sad, excited, angry etc...
Sub Strand: Examing Literature.
ACELT1578: Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (reading and viewing, writing, and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children will use wooden pieces of pine wood (natural material) to paint what the caterpillar ate on each day of the week. This provides the children with the ability to retell the story through visual drawings, rather than using words.
Sub Strand: Creating Literature.
ACELT1580: Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (reading and viewing, writing, and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children will use role and dramatic play to retell the story's narrative. The class, educator and students, can make a stage to act out their performance of the narrative.
Sub Strand: Creating Literature.
ACELT1831: Innovate on familiar texts through play (reading and viewing, and speaking and listening).
- LEARNING CENTRE/ PROVOCATION: The life of a caterpillar will be made into a learning centre. The children will be able to explore, with reference from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the life of a caterpillar. The educator will include real caterpillars to enable the student to investigate what is happening to the caterpillar daily. The children have the option to become a caterpillar to play/ act out the life of a caterpillar or become a zoologist to investigate the caterpillars.
LITERACY
Sub Strand: Interacting with Others.
ACELY1646: Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (reading and viewing, and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: After a guided reading session, with using the sounding out reading strategy, of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the educator will being a reflective discussion. The educator will ask prompting and reflective questions about the children's understanding of the narrative and the sounding out reading strategy.
Sub Strand: Interacting with Others.
ACELY1647: Deliver short oral presentations to peers (speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children, collaboratively in groups, will compose a stop motion video on where the butterfly goes around the world. The groups of children will present these videos to the class with their simple presentation skills. These skills being speaking loudly, making our perfect sentences and looking at everyone when we speak.
Sub Strand: Interpreting, Analysing, Evaluating.
ACELY1649: Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (reading and viewing).
- ACTIVITY: The class, educator and students, will complete guided reading activity using the predicting strategy. The children will join into the reading to predict unknown words within the narrative.
Sub Strand: Creating Texts.
ACELY1651: Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (*reading and viewing, writing, and speaking and listening).
- ACTIVITY: The children will be asked to compose a bookcreator, an application on iPads, of the life of the butterfly after he leaves the story's narrative. These bookcreators will include similar words, drawings and pictures to explain their interpretation of where the butterfly is going after the story ends.
Sub Strand: Creating Texts.
ACELY1652: Participate in shared editing of students' own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops (writing).
- ACTIVITY: The whole class, the educator and children, will summaries the meaning of the narrative. The educator will write the children's answers on the board, while making purposeful mistakes. These mistakes include incorrect use of capital letters, not using full stops correctly and miswriting a letter. The children must pick up on the mistakes and misuses of the punctuation, as this is the aim of the activity.
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