Description
This lesson plan provides ideas for teaching the differences between home and school language, omissions, tenor and inference using the picture book First Day by Andrew Daddo and Jonathan Bently. Key features in First Day is the omission of who is speaking and paired back sentences that read like speech. This picture book lends itself to investigating omissions and how they affect tenor.
This lesson plan meets the Australian Curriculum: English Version 9 outcomes for Foundation to Year 2 and is appropriate for Pre-writers.
The lesson plan includes teacher instructions for a planned exploration, modelling prompts, a group shared experience and independent practice. This lesson plan is based on a Gradual Release of Responsibility Model and the Teaching and Learning Cycle of deconstructing and reconstructing texts.
