Literacy – Writing and Representing

Lesson Plan - Retell of the story

Literacy - Writing and Representing

Curriculum area - Literacy Stage 1 - Duration 60min

Book - Hairy Nose Itchy Butt Written by Elizabeth Frankel and Garry Duncan

Lesson Overview - The Hairy Nose Itchy Butt story is a narrative text that explores our natural environment, Australian animals, bravery and the importance of home.

Hairy Nose Itchy Butt is written in first person, present tense and is appropriate for younger readers. It successfully combines poetic language with a simple narrative structure that explores the themes of our natural environment, Australian animals, bravery and the importance of home. It is beautiful as a read-aloud text.

Lesson Objective - Language shapes our understanding of ourselves and our world. The Hairy Nose Itchy Butt story retell aims to engage students in developing a sense of environmental awareness, by looking at the environmental impact.

Theme - The Hairy Nose Itchy Butt story is a narrative text that explores our natural environment, Australian animals, bravery and the importance of home. Poetic Devices e.g. alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, imagery repetition, imagery and rhyme to help tell the wombats story.

Prior Knowledge - Before reading Hairy Nose Itchy Butt, look carefully at the front cover. What predictions can you make about the story? What kind of things does a wombat do? Does anyone know what a wombat might eat? Where a wombat might live?

Vocabulary Used

 Natural environment, Wombat

Home, Australian animals, bravery 

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.

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

Enquiry Questioning

What predictions can you make about the story?

What kind of things does a wombat do?

Does anyone know what a wombat might eat?

Where a wombat might live?

Explanation - Introduce the book to students, and explain that as a part of work on writing Students will listen to a book called Hairy Nose Itchy Butt written by Elizabeth Frankel and Garry Duncan, 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 Hairy Nose Itchy Butt Written by Elizabeth Frankel and Garry Duncan.

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 student selection, in order 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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