Feeling Every Step - Worksheet
This differentiated worksheet set explores emotions and reactions through Giraffes Can't Dance. Foundation students identify and match emotions shown by Gerald throughout the story. Year 1 students describe how Gerald feels at different points and explain why his emotions change. Year 2 students analyse how Gerald's emotions influence his actions, examine changes in his confidence and reflect on how feelings can shape behaviour and decision-making.
Learning goals
- 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.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Teacher scribing, oral responses, emotion cards, visual supports, partner discussion, reduced writing expectations, drawing responses, shared writing activities, guided completion.
Extensions
Create an emotions timeline for Gerald, write a diary entry from Gerald's perspective, draw facial expressions for key story events, compare Gerald's emotions with another character, create an emotions comic strip, retell the story focusing on Gerald's feelings.