Literacy – Writing and Representing

Lesson Plan - Clancy the Courageous Cow Written by Lachie Hume

Curriculum area - Literacy Stage 1 - Duration 60min

Retell of the story - Literacy – Writing and Representing

Book - Clancy the Courageous Cow written by Lachie Hume

Lesson Overview - Clancy the Courageous Cow is a narrative text that explores courage, friendship and the importance of home and is written in first person, present tense and is appropriate for younger readers. It successfully combines simple sentence structure with a simple narrative structure that explores courage, bravery, friendship and the importance of home. It is beautiful as a read-aloud text.

Lesson Objective - Language shapes our understanding of ourselves and our world. Clancy the Courageous Cow retell aims to engage students in developing a sense of self awareness, by looking at the way we treat others.   

Prior Knowledge - Before reading, Clancy the Courageous Cow look carefully at the front cover. What predictions can you make about the story? Can anyone please tell me what animal is on the front cover?

Anticipated Learning Outcome/Outcomes

EN1-2A plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers

EN1-5A uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words

EN1-8B recognises that there are different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter 

ST1-4LW-S describes observable features of living things and their environments

Theme - Clancy the Courageous Cow is a narrative text that explores courage, friendship and the importance of home.

Rewards - Use class reward system to generate a positive working environment.

Enquiry Questioning

What predictions can you make about the story?

Can anyone tell me what happened in the story?

Why do you think Clancy may have been upset?

Do you think the cows were very nice to each other?

Explanation - Introduce the book to students, and explain that as a part of work on writing Students will listen to a book called Clancy the Courageous Cow written by Lachie Hume and later write a retell of the story from memory.

Re-tell - Using the illustrations as your guide or with no visual aide, retell the story of Clancy the Courageous Cow written by Lachie Hume

Differentiation - Use a whiteboard to construct a simple sentence, scaffolding students who need further assistance with writing. Student can do this book from memory with / without visual aide.

Conclusion - Have students sit in a circle and use random DoJos to select students to read out their work.

Assessment

Informal assessment of students’ prior knowledge, measuring outcome EN1-8B recognises that there are different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter.

Formal assessment on student’s bookwork, measuring outcomes EN1-2A plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers [and] EN1-5A uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words

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