'Walk of the Whales' is an entertaining story that explores ocean pollution and how we should care for our environment.
This activity pack includes activities to support this text, which allow students to discuss, comprehend, make connections and understand the importance of caring for the environment. There are various activities that can be adapted and cater for Pre- Year 6.
Included in this pack:
*2 x Rhyming activity cards where students can locate and match the rhyming words in the story and also think of some of their own.
*Locate the image activity card where students can reference an image and explain how this image adds to the story.
*Create a poster activity card. This card asks the students 'Why did the whales leave the ocean?' and outlines a poster design to advertise how to care for our ocean environment.
*Persuasive writing template where students are to write their point of view on whether whales should stay in the cities and towns, or go back to the sea.
*Information Report template where students can plan and write an informative text on whales.
*Inferential comprehension activity card where students can think of why 'the people grew tired' of the whales living on the land.
*Visual literacy activity card where students look at images in the book and explain why they have been represented in that way.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581)
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme (ACELT1585)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594)
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596)
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605)
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611)