'Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge' is a classic story that sees a young boy friend an elderly lady and help her regain her memory. It is a beautiful book about friendship and the importance of different types of memories that people gain in a lifetime.
This activity pack includes activities to support this text, which allow students to make connections between the text and their own experiences, explore characterisation and explore narrative concepts.
Included in this pack:
*Text-to-Self connection activity- students draw some of Miss Nancy's treasures that relate to her memory and students draw some of their own.
*Character description scaffolds- students study Wilfred's character and identify character traits. There is also a blank scaffold to be used with any chosen character.
*Draw a character from the book activity- students can draw the characters from the story and write about how Wilfred remembers them.
*Possessive Apostrophes activity- students use possessive apostrophes to write sentences about various people and their treasures. There are name cards and picture cards to allow for lots of practice.
*My treasure description- students describe a treasure that relates to a special memory of theirs and explain why it is important to them.
*Write a letter activity- students use their treasure description and write a letter to someone to share it with them.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449)
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)
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)
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)
Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591)