Description
This lesson plan focuses on teaching alliteration and clause patterns using the picture book The Truck Cat, written by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell.
This lesson plan provides ideas for teaching alliteration as a device for description and clause parts and patterning using the picture book The Truck Cat, written by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell. There is repetitive patterning of alliteration in this book, which develops the rhythm of the text and lends itself to an exploration of clause patterning and alliteration.
This lesson plan meets the Australian Curriculum: English Version 9 outcomes for Foundation and Year 6, focusing on clause parts in the lower years and figurative language in the upper years. Adaptations are offered in the lesson to help it suit your students best.
The lesson plan includes teacher instructions for a planned exploration, modelling prompts, a group shared experience, independent practice and a suggestion for a reflection activity. There are two attachments to the lesson plan that can be used to model and scaffold the learning for students. This lesson plan is based on a gradual release of responsibility model and a deconstructing and reconstructing teaching and learning cycle.
