The Very Cranky Bear Mini Book
This mini-book of Nick Bland’s ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ is a terrific resource for your students to practise their retelling and summarising skills of this well known book. It is part of ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ book unit.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to retell familiar texts through role play, reciting rhymes, drawing pictures or using technology.
- We are learning to imitate the speech, characteristics or attitudes of familiar characters.
- We are learning to retell or adapt familiar stories through performance, reciting rhymes, writing, drawing pictures or using technology.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LE05
9
Orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools
ACELT1586
8.4
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication
ACELT1832
8.4
Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary
EN1-10C
old
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
EN1-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Students can orally retell the story.
Extensions
Students can rewrite the story in their own words.
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