Immerse: Greta and the Giants

Lessons

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

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Jump In

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• What can you see?• What do these items represent? • How do the two sets of items/images contrast with each other? • Where might you have seen things like these before? • Why are we seeing two different settings and how could they be related? • How would you feel if you lived in one environment, compared to the other?

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Let's share an extract from the Vehicle Text.

• What does the first sentence tell you about the setting?
• Do you recognise the name Greta?
• What could the author mean by 'Things weren't quite as they should be'?
• Why might the forest animals be 'huddled together'?
• Who might the 'Giants' be?

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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 and metaphor 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 title and front cover of the Vehicle Text.

Now, let's read up to the line 'They worked all day and all night until eventually...'

Were your predictions correct? Let's look closely at the illustrations. How might the beauty of the environment change?

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Drama Opportunity: Step Inside

Look at the illustrations and photographs.

Imagine that you are Greta in these forest settings.

What can you see? What can you smell? How do you feel in this forest setting?

What could you compare some of these things to? Can you create some similes and metaphors? Write your ideas on the pictures.

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I am going to model writing a simile and metaphor poem.

Can you see examples of expanded noun phrases and verb suffixes?

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Write

Can I write a simile and metaphor poem?

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Use the word bank to help you with ideas.

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Review

Can I write a simile and metaphor poem?

• Read what you have written out loud.

• Have I used expanded noun phrases and verb suffixes?

Review

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

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Let's recap on the the Vehicle Text read so far. Then let's read the rest.

How does the setting change in the story? How does the atmosphere develop? Who or what could the Giants represent?

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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 a restoring the environment narrative, about Greta saving the WOODS from BUILDERS.

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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 damaged 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

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Let's recap on the Vehicle Text

How would Greta and the animals feel as they watch their forest being overtaken by the Giants? How would the environment change?

Make a Sentence

Drama Opportunity: Freeze Frame

Let's explore this double page Vehicle Text illustration.

Imagine that you are Greta or one of the animals in this setting. Create a freeze frame to show how Greta and the animals would feel and act. When you are in your freeze frame - if I tap you - you can tell me what you can see and what you are thinking and feeling.

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I am going to model writing a setting description of a damaged environment.

Can you see examples of expanded noun phrases, verb suffixes, relative clauses and brackets for parenthesis?

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Write

Can I write a setting description of a damaged environment?

Write

Use the word bank to help you with ideas.

Write

Review

Can I write a setting description of a damaged environment?

• Read what you have written out loud.
• Does it make sense? What changes do you need to make?
• Have I used expanded noun phrases, verb suffixes, relative clauses and brackets for parenthesis?

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

Review