Immerse: Varmints

Lessons

1: Immerse Learning Objective: Can I write predictions about a text?

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Jump In

lunar landings illustrations

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lunar landings illustrations

• What are the objects you can see and what might they represent? • Where might you have seen things like this before? • How do the two sets of objects contrast with each other? • What kind of setting or environment might our story have? • What is puzzling you? • What might this story be about?

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Let's share an extract from the Vehicle Text.

• What does the first sentence tell you about the setting?
• How would you feel if you were there?
• Why might the author have chosen to start with 'THERE WAS ONCE...' in capital letters?
• Why might the sound of the bees be lost?
• Who are the 'others', and what do you think they are going to do?

lunar landings illustrations

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Write

Can I write predictions about the text?

Write

I will model a sentence.

Make a Sentence

Now you will make your sentence.

Make a Sentence

Review

Can I write predictions about a text?

• Read what you have written out loud.
• Does it make sense? What changes do you need to make?
• Use the sentence checker and, line by line, edit for improvement.

Review

2: Immerse Learning Objective: Can I write a simile poem?

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Make a Sentence

I will model a sentence.

Make a Sentence

Now you will make your sentence.

Make a Sentence

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Let's look at vocabulary from the Vehicle Text.

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Let's look at the front cover of the Vehicle Text.

Now, let's read up to the line 'So they stopped thinking...'

Were your predictions correct? How has the mood of the story changed since the beginning? How do the city scenes contrast with the natural environment?

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Drama Opportunity: Step Inside

Look at the illustration.

Imagine that you could step inside this illustration.

How can you describe what you notice around you in this environment? What might you compare the machines and the buildings to? What sounds can you hear? What are the sounds like? How does this environment make you feel? What is the air like?

Let's add some words and phrases to the flipchart.

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I am going to model writing a simile poem.

Can you see examples of expanded noun phrases?

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Write

Can I write a simile poem?

Write

Use the word bank to help you with ideas.

Write

Review

Can I write a simile poem?

• Read what you have written out loud.

• Have I used expanded noun phrases?

Review

Let's read the rest of the Vehicle Text.

Let's discuss the contrasting settings and the way the mood and atmosphere changes throughout the story.

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3: Immerse Learning Objective: Can I understand and use the vocabulary in the Example Text?

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Make a Sentence

I will model a sentence.

Make a Sentence

Now you will make your sentence.

Make a Sentence

Steady

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Let's re-read the Vehicle Text.

*You will be writing an Environmental Change Narrative.

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Let's look at vocabulary from the Example Text.

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Now, let's read the Example Text.

This is an environmental change narrative, written about the creature and the changing environments in the Vehicle Text.

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Narrative Building Block Questions

Let's answer some questions about the text.

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Review

Can I understand the Example Text and the vocabulary included?

• Read what you have written out loud.
• Have I answered the questions fully?
• Have I included evidence from the Example Text?

Review

4: Immerse Learning Objective: Can I write a setting description of a pleasant environment?

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Make a Sentence

I will model a sentence.

Make a Sentence

Now you will make your sentence.

Make a Sentence

Steady

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Drama Opportunity: Freeze Frame

Let's explore this Vehicle Text illustration and the Natural Environment Images.

For your narratives - you will be describing one of the following natural environments being changed into a city environment.

• Your school field
• Your local park or playground
• Your local woodland area.

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Drama Opportunity: Freeze Frame

Imagine that you are a character stood in your chosen natural environment. Consider what you can: hear, see, feel and smell while in that pleasant setting.

Let's add some ideas to the flipchart.

In small groups: create freeze frames in your chosen settings. Use the illustrations to help you with ideas.

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I am going to model writing a pleasant environment setting description.

Can you see examples of expanded noun phrases, the passive voice and semi-colons to join two clauses?

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Write

Can I write a pleasant environment setting description?

Write

Use the word bank to help you with ideas.

Write

Review

Can I write a pleasant environment setting description?

• Read what you have written out loud.
• Does it make sense? What changes do you need to make?
• Have I used expanded noun phrases, the passive voice, and semi - colons to join two clauses?

• Use the sentence checker and, line by line, edit for improvement.

Review