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Name: Hamida Dafallah Topic: Habitat and Animals

Lesson No: 3

Subject: Writing School: Hillside Primary Duration: 50mins

Date: 19/6/2017 Year level: Prep

Learning Intention
Students will write a few sentences describing their animal.

Introduction
Students will be making a diorama of an animal of their choice and the habitat they live in, to
complete their diorama they will present a non-fiction piece of writing that describes a habitat
and the animal living in that habitat.
Victorian Curriculum F-10
1. Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative
texts have different purposes (VCELA141)

2. Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters and
recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full
stops signal the beginning and end of sentences(VCELA156)

3. Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar
words and beginning writing knowledge (VCELY160)

4. Participate in shared editing of students own texts for meaning, spelling, capital
letters and full stops(VCELY161)

5. Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters
that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case(VCELY162)

6. Construct texts using software including word processing programs (VCELY163)

Success Criteria / Learning outcomes:

Students will write a short description of their animals

Assessment:

Formative assessment by observing students work.

Procedure:
Time for Teacher activities: Learner activities:
each
step
Engagement:
Students to be engaged through
5-10mins Ask students to write down their animal on
responses.
their white boards.
Randomly ask students to tell me something
about their animal.
Using animal Body parts Sheet
I would ask if their animals have the parts
presented on the poster.

Procedural steps:

5-10mins A picture of a lion is shown on the Interactive

whiteboard.

Modelled writing about the lion,

Told them this is my title because this is my
favourite animal which lives in the grasslands

Lion
Lion has claws
Lion has sharp teeth
The lion has a tail
The lion eats meat.

Three sentences about the animal

1 sentence about what they eat

Reminded students that they must write

directionally left to right
That good writers use capital letters at the
beginning of their sentences, and full stops at
the end of their sentences.
If they dont know how to spell a word they
could stretch it out, use the Thrass chart, or
the word wall.

Students went to write about

20mins their animal
Students sent to complete their activity
 5-10mins Reflection Students to share their writing.

Teachers resources:
Interactive whiteboard
Pictures of Habitats
A3 piece of paper folded into 3 parts, portrait
Animal Body Parts Sheet

Catering for inclusion:

Assist as needed, through conferencing and observing student abilities and applying
strategies to assist with their Writing.

Students resources
Mini Whiteboards and markers
Paper, Pencils, Thrass chart

Supervising teachers comments:

This was such a fun lesson and the mode lled writing was explicit.
The students enjoyed having the body parts she et as a prompt for ideas and
spelling.

Student Reflection

This lesson went much better than the previous one, especially with being able to explicitly
instruct the students on the task and reminding them of good writing practices.
As already mentioned the interactive board could have been used to model the writing.
I was more comfortable, with this lesson because I knew the students would have a better
understanding of what they might write about when writing about an animal, compared to
when they had to write about the habitat.
Various books sourced for the students Use