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The Very Cranky Bear Mini Book

The Very Cranky Bear Mini Book
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Description

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.
 

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
Curriculum Codes

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

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

VCELT192

Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication

VCELT193

Build on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary

Differentiation

Modifications

Students can orally retell the story.
 

EXTENSIONS

Students can rewrite the story in their own words.
 

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