'Hey, Little Ant' is a story that teaches perspective and empathy as it allows the reader to look at things from the ants point of view.
This activity pack includes activities to support this text, which allow students to make connections between the text and their own experiences, compare perspectives explore persuasive devices.
Included in this pack:
*Would you Rather activity- students come up arguments or opinions about various animals, to compare the two.
*Fact or Opinion T-charts- students can sort information that are fact or opinion.
*Perspective and Comparison Chart- allow students to compare the two characters and their perspective.
*Sentence Cards- students explore cause and effect by adding to sentences using the conjunction- because.
*Kindness Conversation- students can make connections with their own experiences with ants and write a kind conversation.
*Persuasive Writing Scaffold- students decide on their opinion and come up with arguments to support their point of view.
*Modality activities- students choose modality words to change the impact of the sentence. This demonstrates the suitability of persuasive modal words. They can use the small cards with modal words and then sort them into low modality/ high modality.
*Ant Life Cycle- There is a poster that shows the life cycle and students can add information to this. The cut and paste activity allows students to position the pictures in the correct order.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning (ACELA1453)
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581)
Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1658)
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)
Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction (ACELA1467)
Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469)
Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (ACELT1589)
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)