The English Series - English: Foundation

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Title: The English Series English: Foundation © 2016 Ready-Ed Publications Printed in Australia Author: Yolanda Cool Illustrator: Alison Mutton

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Contents Teachers’ Notes v8.1 Curriculum Links

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Punctuation Events In A Story

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Section Five: More Poetry Teacher Notes Crocodile Spotting Roll And Find Reading Detectives Feelings!

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Section Two: Fiction Teacher Notes A Different Story The Cockatoo And Its Colours Identify Character Traits Story Board What Goes Where?

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The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox My Response Characters 1 Characters 2 Character Feelings

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Section Three: A Narrative Teacher Notes Lily And The Shopping Bag Sequencing Write A Story Listen And Sequence Listen And Complete Match Texts To Pictures

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Section Six: Connections Teacher Notes We Are Off On A Long Flight Connection Stems My Experience Visual Maps My Own Journey Poem

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Section One: Poetry Teacher Notes Paper Boat Winter Is Here Inside And Outside Scavenger Hunt Summary In My Hand Creating Poems

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Section Four: Informative & Imaginative Texts Teacher Notes 33 The Dingo 34 Dingo And His Friends 35 Texts Are Different 1 36 Texts Are Different 2 37

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Teachers’ Notes This book is part of The English Series, which consists of seven books altogether. It is linked to the v8.1 Australian curriculum and each page in the book references the content descriptors and elaborations, which it specifically addresses.

Section Three: A Narrative In this section students will be given the opportunity to look at the typical structure of a fiction text and recognise its different parts.

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Activities include: • kinesthetic tasks: acting out meanings, role playing; • print-based tasks: labelling, reading and writing activities; • auditory tasks: listening to comprehend; • visual tasks: talking about meanings and collecting pictures, images/objects, etc.

Section Four: Informative & Imaginative Texts In this section, teachers are able to model reading behaviours for their students.

The activities will encourage discussing similarities and differences between different text types.

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The activities in this book specifically revolve around the curriculum links for Literacy and Literature. The activities allow students to think carefully about the structure, language features and content of a range of text types.

Individual, partner and group activities are included and cater for different learning abilities and styles. Many activities are openended and enable the development of early years thinking skills.

syntax. By allowing students to think aloud about the meaning of texts they have the opportunity to express the written text meanings in every day spoken language, making it easier for them to understand.

Section Five: More Poetry In this section, students will be encouraged to use prior knowledge, to identifying literal information explicitly stated in the text. By integrating ideas and information in texts, students will learn to record answers in both a visual and written format.

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Section One: Poetry In this section students will understand how to identify visual and written clues in a text to generate theories about the content and then test these theories against information found in the text. They will understand and locate the main idea/s in texts by gathering and condensing information.

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Section Two: Fiction In this section it is important that students get the opportunity to talk about the meaning of written texts. As spoken and written language are different in their vocabulary, semantics, grammar and

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Section Six: Connections In this section, students will make personal connections between the text and their own experiences. To encourage text to selfconnections they will use Connection Stems.

Activities encourage students to visualise by creating mental images of elements in a text that they are summarising.

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This book is divided into seven sections, which are outlined in detail below.

Section Seven: Traditional Tales In this section, students will learn that as stories become more complex, more inferential thinking is required. The strategy for identifying and understanding storycharacter components needs to be more detailed and expanded with questions in relation to self.

v8.1 Curriculum Links Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (ACELA1435) Elaborations: • Creating students’ own written texts and reading aloud to the teacher and others

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Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELT1580) Elaborations: • Drawing, labelling and role playing representations of characters or events • Reciting rhymes with actions Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) Elaborations: • Listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question • Sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps

Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (ACELY1649) Elaborations: • Reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation • Navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word.

• Predicting what might happen on the basis of experience of this kind of text; at the sentence level predicting the meaning on the basis of syntax and word meaning

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Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575) Elaboration: • Comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own

imaginative and informative texts (ACELY1648) Elaborations: • Talking about what is ‘real’ and what is imagined in texts • Identifying and selecting texts for information purposes and commenting on how the text might help with a task

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Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaborations: • Talking about the meanings in texts listened to, viewed and read • Visualising elements in a text (for example drawing an event or character from a text read aloud) • Providing a simple, correctlysequenced retelling of narrative texts • Relating one or two key facts from informative texts • Finding a key word in a text to answer

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Deliver short oral presentations to peers (ACELY1647) Elaboration: • Sharing a personal experience, interest or discovery with peers in a semi-formal situation Identify some differences between

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a literal question Making links between events in a text and students’ own experiences Making an inference about a character’s feelings Discussing and sequencing events in stories

Talking about how a ‘different’ story is told if we read only the words, or only the pictures; and the story that words and pictures make when combined

Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact (ACELY1784) Elaborations: • Speaking so that the student can be heard and understood • Listening and responding to oral and multimodal texts including rhymes and poems, texts read aloud and various types of digital texts

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Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) Elaborations: • Using Image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and webs-based texts • Using beginning concepts about print, sound–letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts • Using speaking, writing and drawing to represent and communicate personal responses to ideas and events experienced through texts

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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 (ACELA1432) Elaborations: • Pointing to the letters and the punctuation in a text • Commenting on punctuation encountered in everyday texts, for example ‘That’s the letter that starts my name’, ‘The name of my family and my town has a capital letter’

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(ACELT1783) Elaboration: • Talking about people, events and ideas in texts enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted • Talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories • Using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences

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Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (ACELA1439) Elaboration: • Recognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes, for example ‘funny’ and ‘money’ • Identifying syllables in spoken words.

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Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786) Elaborations: • Exploring how the combination of print and images in texts creates meaning

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Teacher Notes Poems: Paper Boat & Winter Is Here 1. Sit with your class on the mat and demonstrate how to find ‘clues’ in texts. The titles of texts are ‘clues’. Look at the titles of the provided poems on pages 10 and 11. Ask your students what the titles tell them about the topics of the poems (what will the poems will be about).

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2. Look at the illustrations. They are ‘clues’ too. Ask, “Do the illustrations tell you what the poems may be about?”

reading and join in reciting the poems. Make up some actions to go with the poems to consolidate meaning.

4. After reading/reciting the poems, identify key words and phrases that indicate the main ideas in the poems. Write key words and phrases on the board.

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5. Discuss how the students can locate the main ideas in the poems by answering the following question types:

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6. Model questions (e.g. Where is the poem set?; What do you feel after reading the poem?; Who is in the poem?; Why do you like/dislike this poem?).

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Teacher Notes Comprehension Wands

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Where is the poem set?

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Cut out, laminate and place onto pop sticks. Place in a bucket for students to pick out and answer questions. They can ask these questions about lots of texts. Asking questions help students to develop meaning.

Who is in the poem?

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Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaborations: Talking about the meanings in texts listened to, viewed and read. Finding a key word in a text to answer a literal question.

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Read or listen to the poem Paper Boat, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

Paper Boat

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It’s raining and I have an idea.

I’ll make a paper boat, fold, fold, fold.

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I swish past the trees with my paper boat in my coat.

I splash through the puddle with the paper boat in my coat.

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In the rain I place the paper boat in my coat.

I jump over the puddle, splosh!

I jump into the puddle, splash!

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Past the gate, swing!

Inside, out of the rain.

Activities: Clap out the syllables in each line. Underline the words that are repeated in the poem.

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Curriculum Link: Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELY1580) Elaboration: Reciting rhymes with actions. Curriculum Link: Read decodable and predictable texts, practicing phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (ACELY1649 ) Elaboration: Reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation.

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Read or listen to the poem Winter Is Here, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

Winter Is Here

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Winter is here and so is the rain.

Winter is here and so are boots.

Winter is here and so are hats.

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Winter is here and so are scarves.

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Activities: Clap out the syllables in each line.

Underline the words that are repeated in the poem.

Curriculum Link: Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELY1580) Elaboration: Reciting rhymes with actions. Curriculum Link: Read decodable and predictable texts, practicing phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (ACELY1649 ) Elaboration: Reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation.

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Inside And Outside

Activity

Read or listen to the poem Paper Boat, then complete this activity sheet.

1. The poem Paper Boat describes indoor and outdoor activities.

Which activities do you do inside and which activities do you do outside? Copy the words inside and outside of the boat to show indoor and outdoor activities. Add some of your own words.

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read ride swim sleep eat drive play fly sit walk

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Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650 ) Elaboration: Making links between events in a text and students’ own experiences. Curriculum Link: Recognise and generate rhyming words and syllables (ACELA1439) Elaboration: Recognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes. Identifying syllables in spoken words.

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Scavenger Hunt

Activity

Read or listen to the poems Paper Boat and Winter Is Here, then complete this activity sheet.

Collect the items below related to things from inside and outside. Over the next week, search around the school and at home to see if you can find the listed objects. When you have found them tick them off on your list. Write the names of the objects that you found and what you could do with them on a rainy day. Share your ideas with your class.

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is orange.

Curriculum Link: Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) Elaboration: Using beginning concepts about print, sound–letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts.

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Summary In My Hand

Activity

Read or listen to the poem Paper Boat, then complete this activity sheet.

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In the palm of the hand, draw a picture to match the poem.

Curriculum Link: Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) Elaboration: Talking about people, events and ideas in texts, enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted.

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Place your answers to the questions inside each finger.

1. Finger 1: Name one setting in the poem.

2. Finger 2: Name an action in the poem.

3. Finger 3: What is something that you have made on a rainy day?

4. Finger 4: Write down word/s that indicate how fast the narrator is doing something in the poem.

5. Thumb: What is the narrator wearing in the poem?

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Creating Poems

Activity

Read the poem Winter Is Here, then complete this activity sheet.

Write your own poem on another season.

1. Circle! Season I have chosen: autumn

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___________ is r here so is •f or evand i ew p_____________________ ur posesonl y• ___________ is here and so is _____________________

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Draw

When you read Winter Is Here, what did you imagine? Choose a line from the poem and write it here. On the back of this sheet, draw what you imagined when you read this line.

Poem line:____________________________________________ Curriculum Link: Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) Elaboration: Using beginning concepts about print, sound-letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts.

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Teacher Notes Story: The Cockatoo And Its Colours 1. Model how to make meaning of texts while reading, by showing the students how to think aloud. Open the discussion for students to take risks and suggest their own ideas. As you read, ask the students questions like:

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“It could be … because …“ and “What do you think?”

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“What part of the text makes you think this?” and “This part of the text makes me think this.”

2. To engage the students in the text you could also look at sight words that are found and play word recognition games.

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3. Follow the steps.

a. Teacher reads a passage from the story.

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d. Students compare with a peer to see if the image is similar.

e. Discuss as a class the features that are the same or different in all drawings and why?

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A Different Story

Pair Up! This illustration accompanies a story entitled The Cockatoo

And Its Colours. Without reading the story, guess from the illustration, what you think the story will be about. Work together.

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Listen to or read the story The Cockatoo And Its Colours (page 19).

1. Is it a different storyline to your story? Circle: YES / NO 2. Are there any similarities or differences between your story and the story entitled The Cockatoo And Its Colours? Record them in the table below.

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Curriculum Link: Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786) Elaborations: Talking about how a ‘different’ story is told if we read only the words, or only the pictures; and the story that words and pictures make when combined. Exploring how the combination of print and images in texts creates meaning.

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Read or listen to the story The Cockatoo And Its Colours, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

The Cockatoo And Its Colours

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A long, long time ago deep in the Australian bush, white cockatoos nestled in a tree enjoying the shining Sun. The Sun shone and shone.

One day, one of the cockatoos named Feather Tail, flew up to the Sun. It grasped the Sun in its beak and suddenly it all went dark.

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from white into a rainbow of colours.

The coloured cockatoo with the Sun in its beak sat on the top of the tree showing off its colours to the other animals.

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One of the animals promised to give Feather Tail a shining opal in return for putting the Sun back in the sky, and Feather Tail agreed. When the Sun was returned to the sky, its colours fell on all the other white cockatoos in the tree – giving them beautifully coloured coats.

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Identify Character Traits

Activity

Read or listen to The Cockatoo And Its Colours, then complete this activity sheet.

1. Who is the author of the story The Cockatoo And Its Colours? _ _____________________________________________________ 2. Select and copy the words into the boxes that best describe Feather Tail in different parts of the story. Add some of your own.

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Showing his colours to the other animals.

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3. Is Feather Tail a hero or a villain in the story?

Circle: hero / villain 4. Do you like or dislike Feather Tail’s actions?

Circle: like / dislike

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Curriculum Link: Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) Talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories.

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Story Board

Activity

Read or listen to The Cockatoo And Its Colours, then complete this activity sheet.

Turn the story The Cockatoo And Its Colours into a story board by using your own words and images. The first slide has been done for you.

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A long time ago, cockatoos enjoyed basking in the Australian Sun.

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What Goes Where?

Activity

Read or listen to The Cockatoo And Its Colours, then complete this activity sheet.

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It began to rain, and rain and rain.

Feather Tail and the opal turned black.

Feather Tail flew up to the Sun.

Colours fell from the sky onto the other cockatoos to give them colours.

Curriculum Link: Use comprehensions strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Discussing and sequencing events in stories.

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Teacher Notes Story: Lily And The Shopping Bag Read the story out loud in class.

1. Identify the ‘signal’ words (first, then, next, finally). Talk about how these signal words offer clues to the sequence of events.

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• How do you know?

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Read it again.

Why do you think the author has written it?

What is your reaction to the events in the story?

Who do you think it has been written for?

What parts of the story do you like the best and why?

Who are the characters in the story?

Where is the story set?

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Read or listen to the story Lily And The Shopping Bag, then complete this activity sheet.

Lily And The Shopping Bag

by Yolanda Cool

Lily is going shopping to buy a carton of milk, a sausage, an apple and some nuts. First Lily picks up her shopping bag; not seeing that Tomas the mouse is inside. Then, off Lily goes to the shops.

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She trots past Mrs. Grey’s house with the only cat in the street. Past Ms. Black’s house with the big dog. Past Mr. White’s house with the little rabbit. Past Mrs. Brown’s house with the many birds.

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Inside the shop, Lily selects some nuts, an apple, a sausage and some milk. Lily pays the shopkeeper. After putting the shopping into her bag, Lily leaves the shop with her items and skips down the street swinging her bag.

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She marches past Ms. Black’s house with the big dog and the hole in the bag gets bigger. Out of the bag drops the sausage and the big dog runs across and gobbles the sausage up.

She strides past Mrs. Grey’s house with the only cat in the street and the hole in the bag gets bigger. Out of the bag drops the milk and the cat jumps up and drinks it all up.

o c . che e onto r When Lily finally arrives home, into the kitchen and o t r s s r u e p the table goes the bag. The bag is empty! Lily looks out the

window and looks down the street to see the only cat in the street licking up the milk, the big dog eating the sausage, the little rabbit nibbling at the apple and the many birds pecking at the nuts!

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Curriculum Link: Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (ACELY1649) Elaborations: Reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation. Navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word.

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Sequencing

Activity

After reading or listening to Lily And The Shopping Bag, complete this activity sheet.

Draw lines to match the words with the pictures. Then, use numbers to place the events from the story in the correct order.

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Inside the shop, Lily goes to buy some nuts, an apple, a sausage and milk.

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Out drops the milk and the cat jumps up and drinks it all up.

Find a partner to retell the story to in sequence.

Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaboration: Providing a simple, correctly sequenced retelling of narrative texts. Discussing and sequencing events in stories.

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Write A Story

Activity

After reading or listening to Lily And The Shopping Bag, complete this activity sheet.

Write your own story about going shopping. Plan it here.

Change the story’s characters and scene to reflect where you live. Use the plan below.

The title of my story is:

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Beginning: Is there a problem with the shopping bag in the story?

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Middle: What does your main character buy at the shop?

End: What happens to the shopping?

Now write your story on the back of this sheet.

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Curriculum Link: Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) Elaboration: Using beginning concepts about print, sound-letter and word knowledge and punctuation to create short texts.

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Listen And Sequence

Activity

This is a listening activity. Listen to Lily And The Shopping Bag story again. As you listen, complete this activity sheet.

Write down the names of the animals and what they ate from Lily’s shopping bag in order.

Name of animal

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Listen And Complete

Activity

This is a listening activity. Listen to Lily And The Shopping Bag story again. As you listen, complete this activity sheet.

Complete the cloze using the words below.

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Which piece of information was not in the story?

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Curriculum Link: Listening to and responding orally to texts and to communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) Elaboration: Sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps.

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Match Texts To Pictures

Activity

After listening to Lily And The Shopping Bag, complete this activity sheet.

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She gallops past Mr. White’s house with the little rabbit and the hole in the bag gets bigger.

Out drops the apple and the little rabbit gobbles the apple up.

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Draw the animals which match the words from the story. Then use numbers to put the events in the correct order.

Past Mrs. Brown’s house with the many birds and the hole in the bag gets bigger. Out drops some nuts and the birds swoop down and gobble up the nuts.

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and the big dog runs across and gobbles the sausage up.

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Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaboration: Visualising elements in a text (for example drawing an event or character from a text read aloud).

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Teacher Notes Texts: The Dingo and Dingo And His Friends

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Before reading to your class, complete the steps below.

1. Discuss the topic of the texts (Dingoes) and ask students about their experiences with dingoes or their relative - the dog.

2. Ask what they think informative and imaginative texts are.

Brainstorm examples on the board. Ask questions to ensure that students know the difference.

(Informative texts: are non-fiction texts which inform, instruct or persuade, by including information about real people and events.

Imaginative texts: entertain or draw an emotional response from the reader to the characters and events which are not real, to create mental images. They are fiction texts.)

3. Have students predict from the titles of the texts which one will be informative and which one will be imaginative. Record predictions on the board for the class, so that they can check to see if they were correct after reading or listening to both texts.

4. Have students predict from the illustrations which text will be informative and which text will be imaginative. Ask them to justify their predictions.

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Read the stories aloud to the class.

5. While listening the student should think aloud about: • What is happening e.g. “I wonder where/how/why....”

• Let students answer the questions asked, so that they engage with the story and demonstrate thinking processes while listening.

Reflection

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What is the purpose of the text?

Who is the audience?

What is the main point/purpose of the text?

Who is the main character?

What are some ‘facts’ presented in the story?

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Read or listen to the text below, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

The Dingo

by Yolanda Cool

The dingo is an Australian wild dog that was introduced to Australia some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago from South East Asia.

The Dingo is believed to be the ancestor of all dog breeds. Dingoes are golden or reddish in colour.

Dingoes can live for over 20 years.

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young males, and some live in packs of up to ten. They communicate with wolf-like howls and roam great distances.

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Dingoes don’t make good pets. They need daily long walks, need space and activity. Dingoes must not be chained up in backyards or taken off the leash in parks.

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Height: 48-58.5cm as adults.

Temperament: Dingoes can be restless, cooperative, agile, aloof, loyal.

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Curriculum Link: Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) Elaboration: Listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question.

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Read or listen to the text below, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

Dingo And His Friends

by Yolanda Cool

Dingo had some friends. They were Sun, Crow and Possum. Dingo and his friends all lived in the bush together.

They spent their days playing in the sunshine. They played Hide and Seek from Sun by hiding in the shadows. They played Peek-aBoo in the sand dunes, and Marco Polo down by the river.

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Then, one day big trucks drove into the bush and began to clear the trees. Crow flew away. Dingo stood on a hill and watched.

Crow flew down and landed on Dingo’s back.

Possum ran. Dingo and Crow stood on a hill and watched. Possum ran to Dingo and Crow, and they sat watching the trucks. Sun then floated to the hill and watched.

As they all watched on, they saw roads being built, trees replaced with light poles, shrubs replaced with houses and finally, cars and ©R adyEdPubl i cat i ons people replace thee animals.

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Texts Are Different 1

Activity

Read the texts The Dingo and Dingo And His Friends, then complete this activity sheet.

1. Is the text The Dingo an informative or imaginative text? _ Circle: informative / imaginative 2. Is the text Dingo And His Friends an informative or imaginative text?

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Curriculum Link: Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts (ACELY1648) Elaborations: Talking about what is ‘real’ and what is imagined in texts. Identifying and selecting texts for information purposes and commenting on how the text might help with a task. Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaboration: Relating one or two facts from informative texts.

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Texts Are Different 2

Activity

Read the texts The Dingo and Dingo And His Friends, then complete this activity sheet.

1. Write down or tell a friend in your own words what you think is the difference between an imaginative and an informative text.

An imaginative text is … _____________________________ _ _____________________________________________________

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Say why you have selected these books to help you with your task. _ ______________________________________________________ _ ___________________________________________________ Curriculum Link: Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts (ACELY1648) Elaboration: Identifying and selecting texts for information purposes and commenting on how the text might help with a task.

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Punctuation

Activity

Read the excepts taken from the texts The Dingo and Dingo And His Friends below, then complete this activity sheet.

1. Circle the capital letters in red and circle the full-stops in green.

The dingo is an Australian wild dog that was introduced to Australia some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, from South East Asia.

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Sun, Dingo, Crow and Possum stood on the hill and watched.

5. Write one rule about a comma: Rule:__________________________________________________ _ _____________________________________________________

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Curriculum Link: 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 (ACELA1432) Elaborations: Pointing to the letters and the punctuation in a text. Commenting on punctuation encountered in everyday texts, for example ‘That’s the letter that starts my name’, ‘The name of my family and my town has a capital letter.’

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Events In A Story

Activity

Read the text Dingo And His Friends, then complete this activity sheet.

Write down three events that happen in the story Dingo And His Friends.

Then write or draw how you feel about these events.

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Get into groups of four and role play the story. You will need to decide who will take each part. Present it to the class.

Curriculum Link: Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) Elaboration: Using speaking, writing and drawing to represent and communicate personal responses to ideas and events experienced through texts. Curriculum Link: Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact (ACELY1784) Elaboration: Speaking so that the student can be heard and understood.

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Teacher Notes Poem: Crocodile Spotting Before reading 1. Ask the students to predict what the poem is about from its title.

Record their predictions on the board for later reference so that they can check to see if they were correct.

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individual students: “What is ………trying to do?”, “What happens when…. Does this?”

3. Stop before the ending, ask them to predict the ending. They may have read, We’re Going On A Bear Hunt and draw on this text to help them answer this question.

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Follow up 6. Write on the board: Who is the animal in the poem?

What are the characters trying to do?

What happens when the characters try to do it?

What happens in the end?

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5. Discuss each guess to check if it makes sense before revealing the missing word.

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ask questions from Roll and Find. The answers can be found in the poem. Let’s start by reading the title of the poem.”

2. Choose a student to read the poem’s title or ask the class to say it together.

3. Discuss the meaning of the title.

4. Play Roll and Find (page 44). Reread the story, roll the dice and get the students to answer the questions.

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Read or listen to the poem Crocodile Spotting, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

Crocodile Spotting

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We are going on a long drive, we are going to see a big one.

We are going crocodile spotting!

We are going on a long drive, buckle up!

Click, click, click.

Get in, Pepsi!

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Off we go!

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We drive through the city, in and out, in and out, in and out.

Are we there yet?

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We drive through the heat of the day.

Oh no, it is so hot!

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Are we there yet?

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Bump, bump, bump.

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Out you go!

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We walk through the desert sand, squeak, squeak, squeak.

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We rest under a tree.

Ahh! Ahh! Ahh! We eat our lunch, there is the river!

Through the sand, squeak, squeak, squeak.

Through the grass, swish, swish, swish.

Through the mud, squelch, squelch, squelch.

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There it is!

Oh! It is a big one!

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Through the grass, swish, swish, swish.

Through the sand, squeak, squeak, squeak.

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Max, Olivia and Casper, off we go!

Brmm, brmm, brmm.

We saw a crocodile!

Curriculum Link: Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (ACELY1649) Elaborations: Predicting what might happen on the basis of experience of this kind of text; at the sentence level predicting the meaning on the basis of syntax and word meaning. Reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation.

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Roll And Find

Activity

Read or listen to the poem Crocodile Spotting, then complete this activity sheet.

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Cut out the dice, fold and glue. Get into groups and roll the dice.

Answer the questions that match the numbers.

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Name one character in the poem.

Name one onomatopoeic word in the poem.

Name an action in the poem.

Name a word that you think should be said loudly when reading this poem.

Name another animal which could easily replace the crocodile in this poem.

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Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaboration: Finding a key word in a text to answer a literal question.

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Reading Detectives

Activity

Read or listen to the poem Crocodile Spotting, then complete this activity sheet.

Answer the where, what, who, when and why questions. All good reading detectives know that it is important to be able to answer these types of questions to better understand a text.

Why does the poet use words like swish, swish, swish?

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Who are the characters in the story?

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Where are the characters going?

What are four different settings in the story?

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When do they find what they are looking for?

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Feelings!

Activity

Read or listen to the poem Crocodile Spotting, then complete the activity sheet.

The characters in the poem express many different emotions. Colour the faces below which best show how the characters feel in different parts of the poem.

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We are going on a long drive, we are going to see a big one.

We are going crocodile spotting!

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Drive down the long road.

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

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Teacher Notes Story: We Are Off On A Long Flight

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Read the poem - We Are Off On A Long Flight 1. Sit with the students on the mat. As you read, model how to relate the text to your own experiences. Tell them: This reminds me of…

I remember when…

I have a connection to…

An experience I have had like this is when…

I recall an event like this when…

2. Students to sit in small groups or pairs and attempt reading and retelling.

3. After the students have read in their groups or to their partners, encourage them to talk about how the text connects to their own lives - they may have been on holiday or been on a plane, for example.

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Read or listen to the poem We Are Off On A Long Flight, then complete this activity sheet.

We Are Off On A Long Flight We are off on a long flight!

Pack the suitcases, drive in the car, through Perth City we go.

Bye City, bye Bell Tower, bye Swan River, bye Kings Park, bye foreshore.

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Bye bikes, bye canal houses, bye museum. Board the plane, up in the sky we fly. See the Indian Ocean, see the coastline, blue, green, yellow. Perth!

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Off the plane, get the bags, passport check, hugs and kisses, in the car, hello Bell Tower, hello Swan River, hello Kings Park, hello foreshore. Home!

Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaboration: Making links between events in a text and students’ own experiences.

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Connection Stems

Activity

Read or listen to the poem We Are Off On A Long Flight, then complete this activity sheet.

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That reminds me of another poem/story I’ve read…

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Curriculum Link: Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575) Elaboration: Comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own.

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My Experience

Activity

Read or listen to the poem We Are Off On A Long Flight, then complete this activity sheet.

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Choose a scene from the poem and draw it.

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Curriculum Link: Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575) Elaboration: Comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own.

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Visual Maps

Activity

Read or listen to the poem We Are Off On A Long Flight, then complete this activity sheet.

The poem lists a lot of attractions and features that are in Perth and Amsterdam. Cut out the attractions and features below and paste them under the cities.

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Curriculum Link: Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651) Elaboration: Using image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and web-based texts.

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My Own Journey Poem

Activity

Read or listen to We Are Off On A Long Flight, then complete this activity sheet.

Write your own poem about a journey between two places that you have been on or that you would like to go on. Plan it here.

Place that you are leaving from:

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When you have finished your final piece, read it to your teacher.

Curriculum Link: Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (ACELA1435) Elaboration: Creating students’ own written texts and reading aloud to the teacher and others.

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Teacher Notes

Traditional Tales: Who Is More Important? and The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox Before reading 1. Tell the students that the tale Who Is More Important? is a traditional tale from Africa (Nigeria).

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2. Use a globe to locate Africa and compare its location to where the students live.

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4. Discuss with the class how stories give us information about the characters. Ask the following questions to help the students draw this information from the text: Who are the characters in this story?

How do we know this?

Actions – what do the characters do?

Dialogue – what do the characters say to themselves and each other?

Thoughts – what are the characters thinking?

Physical attributes – how do the characters look? (What animal characteristic do they have – is it a big dog with little ears and small cat with big ears?)

Feelings - how does each character feel?

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Read or listen to the traditional tale from Africa Who Is More Important?, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

Who Is More Important?

(A traditional Nigerian tale adapted by Yolanda Cool)

Once upon a time there was an argument between a cat and a dog who each claimed to be more important than the other. It was then decided that to settle this argument they would each keep watch over a bag of beans at different times.

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The cat was the first to complete the task. The cat was able to ward off rats from getting to the bag of beans but when a human thief came, the cat took to its heels and the thief carried the bag away.

It was then the dog’s turn to complete the task which the cat had failed. The dog successfully kept away the thief from the bag of beans with its barks, but did not notice when the rats slipped past and began feasting on the beans.

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Curriculum Link: Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) Elaboration: Listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question.

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Read or listen to the traditional tale The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox, then complete the activity sheets which follow.

The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox (An Aesop’s tale adapted by Yolanda Cool)

A bear and a rooster had been living in Treetop Forest for a long time and had become good friends. One day they decided that they would like to visit Woody Gate Forest for a change.

So, the bear and the rooster set off on their trip and as night fell, they found a nice tree where they decided to spend the night.

The rooster flew up into the branches and was soon fast asleep.

The bear settled in the large hollow trunk below.

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road a fox was resting, and hearing the rooster crowing, thought that the rooster would make a good breakfast for him. So, he stood under the tree, and called up to the rooster, “What a lovely voice you’ve got, Mr. Rooster. Why don’t you come down, so that we can have a chat and make friends?”

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The greedy fox could already taste the rooster, and knocked on the tree trunk, waking the bear. The bear, seeing the fox, jumped on him and chased him away.

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Curriculum Link: Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) Elaboration: Listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question.

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My Response

Activity

Read the traditional tales Who Is More important? and The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox, then complete this activity sheet.

1. Below is part of the story taken from Who Is More Important? Read it, then place words in the boxes to describe how you feel about this part of the story .

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2. What lesson does this part of the story teach you?

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4. Tick which part of the story you think this is.

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Curriculum Link: Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) Elaborations: Talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories. Using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences.

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Characters 1

Activity

Read the traditional tales Who Is More important? and The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox, then complete this activity sheet.

Place the characters from the two stories under the correct headings by cutting and pasting. Add another character from another story that you have read or listened to.

Bad Character

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Curriculum Link: Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) Elaborations: Talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories. Using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences.

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Characters 2

Activity

Read the traditional tales Who Is More Important? and The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox, then complete this activity sheet.

Copy the words next to the animals that best describe them. Add some of your own. kind selfish shy adventurous brave dishonest cunning sly loyal smart helpful weak strong clever silly

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Curriculum Link: Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) Elaborations: Talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories. Using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences.

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Character Feelings

Activity

Read the tale The Bear, The Rooster And The Fox, then complete this activity sheet.

How does each character feel in different parts of the story?

Draw the animals’ faces to show the feelings.

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Fox

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Bear

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Curriculum Link: Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELT1580) Elaboration: Drawing, labelling and role playing representations of characters or events. Curriculum Link: Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) Elaboration: Making an inference about a character’s feelings.

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