Daily planner 12/7/16 Half day

Reading picture clues

English sentence structure
Maths addition
Links to Curriculum
Reading - Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic
knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting
(ACELY1669)

English Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentencelevel grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and
diagrams (ACELY1661)

Maths - Represent and solve simple addition problems using a range of strategies including counting on and
portioning.

TEACHING & LEARNING CYCLE

WHOLE CLASS

LESSON

INDEPENDENT

SHARE TIME AND

ASSESSMENT

LEARNING

TEACHER SUMMARY

STRATEGIES

We are learning to ...

1. Reading
- Picture
clues

Whole class
discussion
-

What did we
do

Whole class read big

book
-

Cover some
words on the

Students to
draw an image
in their books
and

Practice being a
fluent reader with a
partner

Observation
-

Are students
making the
connection

We are learning to
use the pictures in
a text to help us
read

2. English
- Sentence
structure
We are
learning how
to create
sentences
using key
words

yesterday
with using
the pictures
as clues to
reading a
text

Discussion
What do you need
to include in a
sentence
-

Capital
letters
Full stop

page, read story

and use the
pictures to
guess the
hidden words.
Have the
students talk to
their partners
about what it
might be then
share

Model to students how

to write correct
sentences
-

The girl went to

the shop to buy
some milk.
I went to the
park to play
football with my
friends
Sam and Luke
went to the
beach.

Play game with

the students
Say some
sentences
allowed students
need to put their
hands up if they
think it is a
sentence or
hands down if
they dont.

between the
images and
the text.

15 minutes of
independent
reading

Students are to create

sentences from the
words shown on
whiteboard
http://www.education.
com/worksheet/article/
make-a-sentence-3/
http://www.education.
com/worksheet/article/
make-a-sentence-2/
Early finishes choose a word and
make as many
sentences as they can
with it

Work samples and

observation
-

Check
students
sentences to
see if they are
complete
correctly and
with correct
punctuation

3. Maths
Addition

Counting groups
-

Practice
counting
forward and
backwards
from 0-130
Play
counting
game time
students

Mental
strategies
Examples of
questions you
can complete on
your hands. Eg.
12 + 4. Work out
as class how you
can do that by
counting on

Write 20 simple
multiplication
questions on board
have students
individually and
silently complete
problems

Early finishers
-

Unifix blocks
and a die, roll
the die and add
that many
blocks to their
tower race
friends see who
can get the
tallest tower in
5 rolls

Work samples
-

Mark students
work, see who
is
understanding
and who isnt