English Unit: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been a favourite with children for over 50 years. This unit 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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AC9EFLE02 9

Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters

AC9EFLE03 9

Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings

AC9HPFP06 9

Identify health symbols, messages and strategies in their community that support their health and safety

AC9EFLE05 9

Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing

AC9EFLY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning 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

ACPPS006 8.4

Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing

ACELY1650 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

ACELT1578 8.4

Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text

ACELT1783 8.4

Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts

ACELT1577 8.4

Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators

ENe-10C old

Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts

PDe-10 old

Uses interpersonal skills to effectively interact with others

PDe-9 old

Practises self-management skills in familiar and unfamiliar scenarios

PDe-8 old

Explores how regular physical activity keeps individuals healthy

PDe-7 old

Identifies actions that promote health, safety, wellbeing and physically active spaces

ENe-8B old

Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter

PDe-6 old

Explores contextual factors that influence an individual’s health, safety, wellbeing and

PDe-2 old

Identifies people and demonstrates protective strategies that help keep themselves healthy, resilient and safe

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-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

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

VCHPEP059

Identify people and actions that help keep themselves safe and healthy