"The Very Hungry Caterpillar', written by Eric Carle is a classic story that follows the journey of a caterpillar as it eats its way through various foods. It has a fun counting structure and follows the days of the week sequence, while exploring the life cycle of a butterfly.
This activity pack includes activities which allow students to identify grammatical features and construct sentences based on the text. It introduces concepts of prepositional phrases, nouns (subject and object) and verbs and includes pictures to assist student learning.
Included in this pack:
*Real or Imagined scaffold- students can add information from the text that is fact or fiction.
*Picture cards and a sentence writing scaffold- students can write their own sentence to retell an event that occurs in the story.
*When, who, what picture cards and sentence writing scaffold- students can choose a picture for each part of a sentence- preposition, noun and verb-noun- and write the sentence in full.
*Noun Writing Cards- students can choose a noun (subject) and noun (object) to construct a sentence.
*Sentence Writing Card- students use the picture cards to create a sentence with a subject, verb (ate) and object.
*Sentence Cards- students match the preposition, nouns and verbs in the sentence.
*Description activity- students choose a food card and brainstorm adjectives that describe shape, size and texture. Students can then write a sentence using one or more adjective.
*Colouring sheet- students can write or draw about their favourite food.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (ACELA1435)
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578)
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY1651)
Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances (ACELA1451)
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452)
Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1658)
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)