Topic:

Year 5 & 6

Level 2 (Turquoise Level 18)

Duration 1 week

Achievement objectives

Learning outcomes

Personal  Reading
Viewing

bulletMake confident use of cues and conventions of print
bulletAble to respond to meanings and ideas and able to describe the verbal and visual features

Processes

Learning outcomes

Exploring language (Reading and Writing)
Thinking Critically (Viewing and Presenting)
bulletAble to explain choices that writers have made when writing their story
bulletAble to show awareness of how words and images can be used to make meaning

Resources
Instructional readers

bullet At the Marae
bullet Pirates
bullet When the volcano erupted
bullet Make a bottle orchestra

Internet sites

bullet Put the skeleton back together again http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html
bullet Honey bee website http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/honey_bee.htm
bullet Draw a dinosaur http://www.dinosaurcartoons.com/pages/fun.html

Learning Experiences

  1. Read At the Marae, focus on the feelings expressed by the narrator, the informal, conversational style, the Maori words, the ‘es’ plurals for ‘mattresses’ and ‘speeches’, the ‘ight’ in light, night and right.
    Related reading activity - Inspiration template ‘Plurals’
  2. Read Pirates (over 2 days), focus on vocabulary and apostrophes showing possession
    Related reading activity – Inspiration template ‘What have we learnt about pirates’
  3. Read ‘When the volcano erupted’, focus on language features, how punctuation is used
    Related reading activity – Hot Potatoes Cloze exercise online ‘Volcano’
  4. Read Make a bottle orchestra – focus on parts of a book
    Related reading activity – Inspiration flow diagram how to make a bottle orchestra

 

Assessment

Running records, Self assessment

Extra Activities

 Non fiction box

‘ight’ words Inspiration template

Pirates Wordfind (PowerPoint)

Make a bottle orchestra with bottles and water

PowerPoint Volcano Wordfind

Make your own Wordfind

Draw a dinosaur http://www.dinosaurcartoons.com/pages/fun.html

 
       

 

My Self Assessment         Name:________________________

 

I found out this new information:

 

 

Compulsory Tasks

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I could have done better

I did quite well

I did my best work

What could I do next time to improve or what went wrong?

Plurals

 

 

 

 

 

 

What have we learnt about pirates

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hot Potatoes Cloze Volcano

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make a bottle orchestra flow diagram

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optional Activities

Non fiction box

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘ight’ words

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make a bottle orchestra

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volcano wordfind

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make your own wordfind

 

 

 

 

 

 

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