Description
Help students unlock the power of Circumstances—the rich details that tell readers where, when and how things happen—through the beautifully crafted picture book A Song for the King by Katrina Nannestad & Freya Blackwood.
This lesson plan immerses students in hands-on, meaningful grammar learning. Using a blend of play, modelling, shared analysis and independent writing, students learn to identify, comprehend and craft adverbial groups and prepositional phrases that expand meaning in their own sentences.
Aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9 for Years 1, 4 and 6 language outcomes, but appropriate for all primary levels, this resource supports a contextualised approach to clause-level grammar. The gradual release structure ensures every student can participate, from emerging writers to advanced learners ready to extend the patterned text into full narrative writing.
This lesson plan includes:
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A collaborative warm-up game: A Verb Went Walking
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Explicit modelling using key sentences from the text
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Guided clause analysis (Process, Participant, Circumstance)
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A shared annotation task with discussion prompts
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A patterned writing scaffold for younger learners
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Extension options for older or more confident writers
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Assessment reflections and check-out questions
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All supporting attachments ready to print
Bring grammar to life through movement, literature, and creative writing—while giving students the language tools they need to expand, enrich and sharpen their ideas.
