What the ladybird heard proposed teaching sequence Cycle 3 Language skills to be used and worked upon : Listening / Speaking PPC-PPI / Reading / Writing Pre-teaching : names of characters / animals / vocabulary necessary for the story. In Cycle 3 the pupils may possibly have already learned the farm animals and this will enable you to advance more quickly. Farm / hen / duck / goose / sheep / hog (pig) / horse / dog / cat / cow / ladybird Teach the names of the characters using flashcards taken from the book to familiarize the pupils with the imagery of the book beforehand. Pre-teach : where do the animals live? Farm Duck duckpond Goose in a pen Sheep in a field Hog / pig in a barn or in a field / in a pen Horse in a field / in a pen Dog in the farmyard / in the house / in a kennel Cat in a barn / in the farmyard Cow in a field Introduce the picture of the farmyard and indicate where the animals live. Vocabulary : Tractor / trailer / farmyard / barn / dog kennel / farmhouse / fence / pen / field / scarecrow / 1
Much of this vocabulary is for passive recognition only but it is a way of introducing more words to widen the lexical base without enforcing too much rote learning. The Farm picture document of a more complex nature (according to the level of your pupils). Labelling the items and working on the contents of a farm. Familiarizing the pupils with the environment of the story. Counting the animals, identifying the parts of the farmyard to encourage comfort with the vocabulary in preparation for the story. Speaking activities about the picture. What can you see? What is happening in the farmyard today? Introduce on the left and on the right begin to introduce the idea of directions in preparation for the story. Younger pupils may already be familiar with Old MacDonald had a farm reintroduce at this point? Revise vocabulary with flashcards. Insist upon the animal noises in the song. Listen to Hop In Piste 23 for animal noises. Play games to familiarize the pupils with the noises animals make in English. Cf Little Red Hen. Introduce the story What the ladybird heard What is a ladybird? Picture? Flashcard? Introduce the notion of a ladybird being a quiet / silent insect ssshhhh. First pages of the story And the ladybird never said a word. Sshhhhhh. 2
Ladybird saw / ladybird heard mime the actions. What did the ladybird hear? What did the ladybird see? Colouring activity on animals L Comp what order did you see the animals? hear the animals? Second part of the story the directions and the map. Pre-teaching : Introduce directions Turn right / turn left / straight ahead / go round / past Simple plan. Directions on the simple plan. Treasure Map game on British Council website??? Ski maze game. L Comp from A2 evaluation Where s my house? (L file in Day 3 L Comp section). 3
Directions Game Play the game to familiarize students with vocabulary. You can spell out words for the sequence, if you wish, to revise the words at the same time. 4
Once the pupils are familiar with the vocabulary of the story, you can introduce the map from the album for working on directions. Treasure Map game from British Council to revise techniques. 5
Ask the pupils to describe the route Turn right after the horse. Go round the fish pond After the house turn left After the kennel go left Work on the notion of a direction being given in relation to something else : after the house, turn left. Once all the preparatory work has been completed; you are ready to read the whole story. Expected Pupil participation : List the animals living on the farm. Say the noises that the animals make What did the ladybird hear and see? Anticipate the directions following the plan Anticipate the ladybird s good idea Make the wrong animal noises to fool the men Get the animal noises right at the end of the story. Possible Evaluations for this sequence L Comp on directions, following on a map (A2 example done on training course). Farm vocabulary Pupils recreating story orally from pictures. Reading/Writing captions to go under pictures 6
Writing and Reading introduce ideas from John Bald s documents Not introducing copying Writing give the children chance to try out / experiment Examples of reading evaluation type activities on Macmillan website. Reading Evaluations put words in box and ask pupils to put the words in the correct sentence Look at what exactly we are evaluating??? Do not mix skills in the evaluation process. e.g. fat hen miaowed pond pen sheep hog red horse dog purred cow Once upon a farm lived a, a duck in a and a goose in a, a woolly, a hairy, a handsome and a dainty, a cat that, a cat that, a fine and a ladybird. Underline the mistakes Open the gate at the dead of night. Pass the dog and then turn left. Round the house, past the cat,(be careful not to wake the goose). Right past the hog, then straight ahead and in through the door of the prize sheep s shed. Farm Vocabulary Label the following items on the farm : 7
Trailer / pig pen / scarecrow / duck pond / barn / field / sheep Writing Evaluations Correct the mistakes Open the gate at the dead of night. Pass the dog and then turn left. Round the house, past the cat,(be careful not to wake the goose). Right past the hog, then straight ahead and in through the door of the prize sheep s shed. Unscramble these words God sgooe rnab For the very able students, why not try some simple questions? But be aware that you may not have revised the necessary prepositions for them to be able to do this exercise so be careful not to put them in difficulty. 8
Where is the farmer? Where are Len and Hugh? Where is the scarecrow? Why is the farmer happy? 9