Class: 4B Text: Pannikin and Pinta By: Colin Thiele Lesson: 1 Whole book orientation Whole book orientation - with
reference to: authors purpose, stance and theme, background knowledge, plot and character, significant inferences, links between text and illustrations and new vocabulary Examine Map and focus
TM6.6 Week: 1 Lesson: 3 Time connectives PQR: time connectives. Search for time connectives throughout entire story. Term: 43
Teaching Sequence Teaching focus + outcomes/cont ent Low Order Literate Orientation (building shared knowledge through PQR)
Lesson: 2 Metaphors and similes PQR: search passage for metaphors and similes E.g. clouds were darker than bruises. Like monstrous veins of brown blood
Lesson: 4 Geographical terms / technical language PQR: technical terms. Highlight geographical terms and discuss meanings.
on location and time One day a monsoon from the north and a cyclone from the east collided They bulged with rain. Read text to/with class During the next five days they Soon the floodwater started to dropped billions of tonnes of move southwards. and some water and people seem were drowned altogether. smaller than flies. Near the South Australian border the water split into a hundred different channels, That is where the story of Pannikin and Pinta begins.
Transformations (how meaning was created through text structure and language choices) Spelling Chunking & Reconstructed Writing monsoon cyclone clouds
Provide opportunities for students to read the highlighted text Omit simile Omit time connectives Omit time connective Focus on short sentence It was Focus on descriptions of the unstoppable and pronoun clouds and rain. reference. flies (days) dropped expanse wrinkled y rule double last letter floodwater southwards overflowed unstoppable monstrous hundred bloated
weather words
Compound words
adjectives
Writing Modelled writing (joint construction) or Guided writing (writing workshops) or Independent writing (free composing)
Vocabulary activity: List words from the text on whiteboard - find dictionary meanings - search for synonyms - write sentences to show understanding Monsoon, cyclone, collided, bulged, plains, vast, expanse, drenched, horizon, channels, bloated, watercourses, basin, border
Write sentences that contain metaphors and similes (related to weather and birds, etc).
Joint construction write about a topic with a statement and expansion to give details. Use similes and metaphors to create vivid images and time connectives. E.g. Heat wave, hail storm, bushfire.
Three days before Christmas lightning struck. It split the dark sky in half as it speared to earth and struck. The old gum had stood there for more than two hundred years but it took only seconds to become a ball of fire shooting sparks into the surrounding forest.
Paired construction following on from previous lesson. Writing a description using a statement and expansion.
Accelerated Literacy Weekly teaching proforma. Class 4B Text: Pannikin and Pinta By: Colin Thiele Lesson: 5 Compare and contrast of land using text and images PQR: illustrations on pages 1-4 and 9-10. Focus on sentences and phrases that show change. Lesson: 6 Descriptions / adjectives PQR: Descriptions of pelicans and the devotion of the parents to their offspring. Lesson: 7 Statement and expansions
TM6.6 Week: 2 Term: 3 Lesson: 8 Human impact on the environment PQR: human movements and the impact on the environment.
Teaching Sequence Teaching focus + outcomes/cont ent Low Order Literate Orientation (building shared knowledge through PQR)
PQR: adjectives and adjectival phrases (pairs of adjectives used e.g. white and smooth, pink and featherless, awkward and ungainly).
Such a sea of water in the desert was a miracle and little creature that crept out of hiding in the night.
Read text to/with class The father was a fat bird with a The babies were wonderfully paunch. They made her ugly. The three of them grew different from all the others. quickly.
When the news of the lake and its wildlife spread across the world, many people wanted to see it. which left the riders with sunburnt noses and sore bums.
Transformations (how meaning was created through text structure and language choices)
Provide opportunities for students to read the highlighted text Focus on similes, metaphors, Omit adjectives Omit expansion adjectives and geographical Search for synonyms of Rearrange text. features that show change. adjectives E.g. gracious, beautiful
Spelling Chunking & Reconstructed Writing Writing Modelled writing (joint construction) or Guided writing (writing workshops) or Independent writing (free composing)
kangaroo wallabies bandicoots dingoes Descriptive writing of a natural setting. (Rainforests where the forest meets the sea).
3 syllables
ly
topic words
Description writing of another animal mentioned in the text. Introduce EXPOSITIONS - structure - purpose -grammatical features
Write statements and expansion for another young animal. Deconstruct an exposition Ban the Bikes.
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Class: 4B Text: Pannikin and Pinta Teaching Sequence Teaching focus + outcomes/cont ent Low Order Literate Orientation (building shared knowledge through PQR) Lesson: 9 Conservation
By: Colin Thiele Lesson: 10 Introduction of characters (Pelicans) PQR: pelicans, their names, details, traits, etc. Alliteration Lesson: 11
Week: 3
Term: 3 Lesson: 12 Complication 2 and resolution PQR: sequence of events leading up to complication 2 and after.
Complication 1 and resolution PQR: Sequence of events that lead to complication 1. - food running out - Portly dying - Pelicans leave
Conservationists were worried. destroying the very things they had come to see.
Read text to/with class It was Sam who gave the five Portly could no longer fly or swim pelicans their names: The or eat. And just as the first pelicans were the family of the stars came out Portly died. Five Ps Portly and Pinta, Preen, Plume and Pannikin.
There was no hope of finding Preen and Plume in the murk, so Pinta had to fly on They had to land.
Transformations (how meaning was created through text structure and language choices)
Provide opportunities for students to read the highlighted text Focus on adjectives and nouns. Focus on emotive language Omit adjectives tortures, agony, struggled, etc. Synonyms/antonyms for adjectives Some onomatopoeia lurching skidding roaring disturbing burning feathers beak mean tortured agony struggles ignorant Paired construction of an exposition Should Children wear hats at School?
Spelling Chunking & Reconstructed Writing Writing Modelled writing (joint construction) or Guided writing (writing workshops) or Independent writing (free composing)
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Text pattern Too many vehicles were lurching E.g. Many fans were sitting in their seats with flags waving, drinks spilling, etc. Continue joint construction of Exposition.
Write alliterative sentences. E.g. Talyssa and Terri tiptoed towards the treacherous tiger.
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Class: 4B Text: Pannikin and Pinta Teaching Sequence Teaching focus + outcomes/cont ent Low Order Literate Orientation (building shared knowledge through PQR) Lesson: 13
By: Colin Thiele Lesson: 14 Complication3 and resolution PQR: Sequence of events that lead to complication 3 and after. PQR: Pinta and the way she cares for Pannikin Lesson: 15 Complication 4
Week: 4
Term: 3 Lesson: 16 Final resolution PQR: pelicans landing at Streaky Bay. PQR: events leading up to final resolution Revise milestones that they overcome Instinctively Pinta veered to the right, taking the shortest route to the coast. Pinta swooped down hastily and flew with him, above and below, urging him on in a last desperate push to reach the sea. Omit BUT changes the mood of the two paragraphs.
Phrases and clauses to information and imagery PQR: phrases and clauses E.g. a mix of rushing wings, furiously gobbling up the fish, etc.
At that instant a strange sound a mix of rushing wings and padding feet - It was Pinta, starving and desperate.
Read text to/with class Pinta kept a close watch on little Pannikin beside her. Once more their lives were in the hands of humans.
The station owner had built a clever maze of channels and settling ponds The friendly feel of the water was enough to give them hope.
Transformations (how meaning was created through text structure and language choices)
Provide opportunities for students to read the highlighted text Omit phrases and clauses that Focus on pronouns. add extra information Focus on personification The friendly feel of the water.
Spelling Chunking & Reconstructed Writing Writing Modelled writing (joint construction) or Guided writing (writing workshops) or Independent writing (free composing)
channels settling muddy occasional ripples Text pattern They came down in a long sweep with their legs braced, and slid across the surface in a burst of ripples. using another animals movements.
Sentence writing using verbs and adverbs. With the breeze blowing from behind they were carried forward bravely. E.g. With the cat asleep on its bed the mouse crept silently towards the cheese. Complete expositions.
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Class: 4B Text: Pannikin and Pinta By: Colin Thiele Teaching Sequence Teaching focus + outcomes/cont ent Low Order Literate Orientation (building shared knowledge through PQR) Lesson: 17 Personification PQR: events that occur at Streaky Bay PQR: features of the pelicans being given human qualities, or personified engages reader who empathises with pelicans as if they were humans. Lesson: 18 Exposition Poster PQR: research from previous lesson. PQR: revise impact of humans on the pelicans lives. Lesson: 19 Exposition writing
Week: 5
PQR: structure and grammatical features of an exposition. Revise expositions written jointly and with a partner.
Transformations (how meaning was created through text structure and language choices) Spelling Chunking & Reconstructed Writing Writing Modelled writing (joint construction) or Guided writing (writing workshops) or Independent writing (free composing)
Read text to/with class It was hard to know whether Pinta Revise part of the text where It was a message from a ranger understood what was happening, humans visit Lake Eyre at the Coorong Somehow or whether she realised that she theyve managed to reach the would never see Pannikin again. Coorong. But only for a week. Then shes on her own. Provide opportunities for students to read the highlighted text Focus on speech and View other posters persuading punctuation. people to care for animals. Focus on apostrophes for contractions. persuading considered dependent wild creature life feeding Design a poster (exposition) to save a marine animal using research from previous lesson. theyve mustnt shes shell Plan independent exposition writing.
incredible instincts intently dwindled distant Independently write Exposition, edit and publish.
Research marine live and restriction - oil tankers - pollution - shark nets - breeding