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.
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
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
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication
Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary
Students can orally retell the story.
Students can rewrite the story in their own words.