The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sentence Maker
In this worksheet, students trace, cut and paste scrambled words to create sentences about the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
This activity was created as a part of Teach This’ Very Hungry Caterpillar unit. It is designed to help you bring an exciting range of cross-curricular activities into your classroom to go along with this classic story book. In the unit students will sequence the story, assemble sentences, count their way through fruit, make healthy eating decisions and learn a little bit about how hungry caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies
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Learning goals
- We are learning to recognise characteristics of different types of texts, e.g. traditional beginnings and endings of fairy tales and rhyme in poetry.
- We are learning to identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text.
- We are learning to retell and adapt familiar texts through role play, performance, images or writing.
- We are learning to retell familiar texts through role play, reciting rhymes, drawing pictures or using technology.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to make meaning.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as retelling, making inferences and finding key words to make meaning from multimodal texts.
- We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, functional posture and pencil grip.
- We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, correct posture and pencil grip.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLE03
9
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
AC9EFLE05
9
Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
AC9EFLY08
9
Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations
AC9EFLY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
ACELY1653
8.4
Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
ACELY1650
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
ACELT1580
8.4
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
ACELT1578
8.4
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
ENe-8B
old
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
ENe-10C
old
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
ENe-3A
old
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
ENe-4A
old
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
ENE-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature read to them
ENE-HANDW-01
new
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
ENE-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
ENE-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
ENE-CWT-01
new
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
VCELY153
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
VCELT159
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
VCELT149
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
VCELY162
Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case
VCELT150
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.