MARC LIBRARY
UNIT OF WORK: Term 4 2013
LOWER PRIMARY- Prep and Year 1
AUTHOR STUDY: Enid Blyton
Explore with Peter, Mollie and Chinky on the Wishing Chair
AUS Vels: Sub-Strand
Literature and Content
- Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Responding to Literature
- Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in the texts
Text Structure and Organisation
- Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences.
Examining Literature
- Identifying some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from the text
Creating Literature
- Retell familiar literary texts based on the ideas, features and structures of texts experienced.
Interacting with Others
- Listen and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations.
- Use interaction skills, including turn-taking, recognising the contribution of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace.
- Using interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume.
Creating Texts
- Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and phrases
Years P/1/2/3
Lesson 1A collection of Enid Blyton’s classic books (old and new editions of her books)
My Favourite Enid Blyton Story Book
by Enid Blyton / Learning Intention:
For students to recognise that texts are created by authors that tell stories.
Success Criteria:
Be able to identify from a collection of pictures those that best tell you something about Enid Blyton. / Lesson Plan
Prior Knowledge: Whole Class Activity
Make a list of all that the students know about Enid Blyton on the whiteboard.
Explain that Enid Blyton is an author of adventure and mystery stories.
Powerpoint Presentation
View Powerpoint presentation showing pictures of Enid from childhood through to later life. Discuss what they notice in each picture. Focus on the typewriter that Enid is holding in one of the pictures. What do you think this is? How have times changed?
YouTube Clips
Show a YouTube clip of Enid Blyton in her home at Green Hedges in 1946, as well as a YouTube clip showing her playing with her children. Discuss.
Enid Blyton: Suitcase Full of Classics
Show students a collection of Enid Blyton books- some originals and some new editions.
Read the first page of ‘Summer Time at St Clare’s’ (Published 1948) and read ‘Summer at St Clare’s’ (Published 2013)
What do you notice?
What does this tell you about of Enid Blyton’s books?
Focus on how her writing has stood the test of time and is still very popular even 45 years after her death.
Read some short stories and poems from ‘My Favourite Enid Blyton Story Book’ by Enid Blyton
Individual Task
Give the students a worksheet with a variety of pictures on it. The students are to colour the pictures that best tell them something about Enid Blyton. / Requirements
Access to the Internet- Youtube
Collection of Enid Blyton books in a suitcase
Worksheet with a collection of pictures on it e.g. pen, typewriter, drill, etc.
‘Lesson 2
‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’
by Enid Blyton / Learning Intention:
Be able to share their feelings and thoughts about a character in the text.
Success Criteria:
Be able to identify the main characters in ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’.
Be able to draw the main characters in the story and label. / Lesson Plan
Read ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’ – up to page 15.
YouTube Clips
- The Invisible Chair
Make a list of the main characters in the story on the whiteboard. Compare these characters. Discuss how the characters are different: both physically and in personality.
Individual Task
Give each student a copy of a picture of the wishing chair. Draw a picture of the 3 main characters in the story of ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’. Label. / Requirements
The Adventures of the Wishing Chair
Access to the Internet
Photocopy of a wishing chair
Lesson 3
‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’
by Enid Blyton / Learning Intention:
Be able to share their feelings and thoughts about a character in the text.
To be able to recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences.
Create a short text to record an idea.
Success Criteria:
Be able to identify the main characters in ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’.
Write a sentence to describe Chinky making sure that the sentence begins with a capital letter and ends in a full stop. / Lesson Plan
Read ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’- The Grabbit Gnomes (up to page 19)
YouTube Clip
- The Grabbit Gnomes
Read through the describing words that have been laminated. Identify which describing words best describe Chinky.
Teacher Demonstration
Discuss the features of a sentence (full stops, capital letters, have meaning, etc). The children choose a word that best describes Chinky and the teacher makes a sentence using the laminated cards, leaving off the full stop.
What is missing? Have we got a capital letter at the beginning? Would the word Chinky have a capital letter if it was in the middle of the sentence?
Individual Tasks
- Write a sentence to describe Chinky. The sentence must begin with a capital letter and end in a full stop.
- Make a cardboard figure of Chinky- decorate using felt and permanent markers.
Whiteboard
Access to the Internet
Laminated words to describe Chinky.
Laminated full stops, as well as the joining word ‘and’ (multiple copies for sentence making)
The wordsChinky laminated (multiple copies for sentence making)
Access to the Internet
Lesson 4
‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’
by Enid Blyton / Learning Intention:
To be able to listen and respond with accuracy to a given text.
Success Criteria:
To be able to listen to statements about a story from ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’ and show accurately whether the statement is true or false. Students will have to shade either a happy or sad face to indicate their level of understanding. / Lesson Plan
Read ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’- The HoHo Wizard (up to page 24)
Explain to the students that they will need to listen very carefully in order to be able to complete the following task.
Listening Activity
Give students a worksheet with happy and sad faces on it. Read a statement about the story of ‘The HoHo Wizard’. Colour in the happy face if the statement is correct. If it is incorrect the students are to colour the sad face. Listen and respond to 12 different statements.
YouTube Clip
- The HoHo Wizard
Whole Class Activity
Make a circle. Give each student a laminated happy face and a sad face. Read out a statement about the story of ‘Poor Lost Chinky’. Students are to hold up the happy face if the statement is true and hold up the sad face if it is incorrect. Students can face outwards from the circle for this activity. / Requirements
The Adventures of the Wishing Chair
Worksheet- listening task using happy and sad faces
Access to the Internet
Laminated happy and sad faces
Lesson 5
‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’
by Enid Blyton / Learning Intention:
For students to be able to respond to a text and demonstrate creativity.
To be able to speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace when presenting to the whole class.
Success Criteria:
Be able to create a land that they would like to visit and draw a picture of what they would see.
Be able to orally present their land to the whole class and explain clearly what they have drawn. / Lesson Plan
The teacher brings in a wishing chair decorated with sparkling rhinestones and colourful ribbons. The wishing chair also has some brightly coloured wings. The teacher explains that she heard flapping at her back door the previous evening and when she opened the door, it flew into her house. The students take turns to sit in the chair while the teacher reads.
Read ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’- The Land of Dreams (up to page 32)
Whole Class Discussion
What other lands might the wishing chair visit? Where would you like the wishing chair to take you?
The teacher describes the land she would like to visit on the wishing chair:
e.g The Land of Books- I peeped through the whole in the cloud. What I saw was amazing! There was crazy car made out of a Zac Power book driving along a track made out of books. The heroic Zac Power was even driving it. I walked along further and came across a cute little house made out of Billie B Brown books. I ventured inside and even Billie B Brown herself. What a surprise! I had a chat and she gave me one of her books. The library was next door so I decided to go in for a look. I went to open the door and noticed that the door was The Magic Faraway Tree book. What a peculiar land! I had lots of fun in the library. Reading of course! I then took my Billie B Brown and sat down under a tree that was covered in book leaves. I had a quiet read and a short snooze and then it was time to go home.
Individual Task
Give each student an outline of a cloud. Imagine a land you would like to visit on the wishing chair. Write the title of your land at the top of the cloud and draw a picture with lots of detail. Sit on the wishing chair and give an oral presentation describing your land. Teacher emphasises the importance of speaking loudly and clearly, as well as looking at the audience. / Requirements
The Adventures of the Wishing Chair
A3 piece of white cover paper with an outline of a cloud
Lesson 6
‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’
by Enid Blyton / Learning Intention:
To be able to share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in the texts
Success Criteria:
To be able to accurately draw what you see, hear and feel after listening to the events in the story of The Disappearing Island.
. / Lesson Plan
Read ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’- The Lost Cat and The Witch Kirri-Kirri (up to page 44)
Whole Class Activity
After reading ‘The Witch Kirri-Kirri’, complete a whole class chart:
What do you see? / What did you hear? / What did you feel?
Read ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’- The Disappearing Island
Individual Task
Worksheet- Draw what you can hear, see and feel after listening to The Disappearing Island. Share with the whole class.
YouTube Clip:
- The Disappearing Island
The Adventures of the Wishing Chair
Whiteboard
Worksheet- what can you hear, see and feel
Access to the Internet
Lesson 7
‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’
by Enid Blyton / Lesson Plan
Read ‘The Adventures of the Wishing Chair’- The Magician’s Party & The Wishing Chair is Foolish.
REFLECTION TASK / Requirements
The Adventures of the Wishing Chair
Reflection Task