with an alternative ending. Emotive Language – when words are used to make the reader feel a certain emotion, like sadness or anger – e.g. We are the poor, helpless children who are forced to do hours and hours of homework every night OR relate to the fractured fairy tale currently being read – e.g. I’m just a poor, tired, hungry wolf who ran out of butter. NB explicit teaching of using for and against formats is/may be required SPELLING FOCUS – CHOOSE FROM: Individual programs Topic Specific Words Personal pronouns Words conveying degree of certainty Evaluative language Present tense Action verbs Thinking and feeling words SEE SPELLING FOCUS AT END OF LESSONS FOR MORE DETAIL RESOURCES The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Power point Role-play Students choose another fairy tale to Students make up their own scenario Use role-play to help students use to tell their side of the story to the to each tell their side of the story to explore the concept of point of authority figure as demonstrated by the authority figure as demonstrated view. In groups of three, have one the teacher in the role-play. Ask other by the teacher in the role-play. Ask SPEAKING student be a “good character”, a members of the class to take notes of other members of the class to take second student play the “bad the events and decide what the truth notes of the events and decide what AND character” and the third play an actually is. the truth actually is. LISTENING authority figure such as a police officer, teacher, judge, parent. Teacher models a scenario from the chosen fairy tale with two students, while playing the part of one of the
Emotive Language – when words are used to make the reader feel a certain emotion, like sadness or anger – e.g. We are the poor, helpless children who are forced to do hours and hours of homework every night OR relate to the fractured fairy tale currently being read – e.g. I’m just a poor, tired, hungry wolf who ran out of butter. NB explicit teaching of using for and against formats is/may be required SPELLING FOCUS – CHOOSE FROM: Individual programs Topic Specific Words Personal pronouns Words conveying degree of certainty Evaluative language Present tense Action verbs Thinking and feeling words SEE SPELLING FOCUS AT END OF LESSONS FOR MORE DETAIL with an alternative ending. RESOURCES The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Power point SPEAKING AND LISTENING Role-play Use role-play to help students explore the concept of point of view. In groups of three, have one student be a “good character”, a second student play the “bad character” and the third play an authority figure such as a police officer, teacher, judge, parent. Teacher models a scenario from the chosen fairy tale with two students, while playing the part of one of the Students choose another fairy tale to use to tell their side of the story to the authority figure as demonstrated by the teacher in the role-play. Ask other members of the class to take notes of the events and decide what the truth actually is. Students make up their own scenario to each tell their side of the story to the authority figure as demonstrated by the teacher in the role-play. Ask other members of the class to take notes of the events and decide what the truth actually is.
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