Ellie

 

Day One: Activating Prior Knowledge, Building Knowledge (making connections, oral language focus)
  • What are you really good at?
  • Predictions based on cover (back and front)
Day Two: Five Finger Retell

Day Three: Vocabulary Development
  • announcement
  • spruce
  • prune
  • talent
  • prickly
  • portrait

Day Four: Higher Order Questioning (asking, discussing, reflecting - between the line questions)
  • What talent do you have that could save the zoo?
  • How do you think Ellie felt when all the animals had a talent? How do you know?
  • How do you think Walt felt when he saw Ellie with a paint brush?
Extensions for Learning Centres or Opportunities to Engage with Writing:
  • Portrait Work
  • Mini Lessons on Painting
  • Zoo: sorting animals, drawing, graphing
  • Add zoo animals to building area

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