Close Reading Shared reading - a selection of poetry based on this theme. Discuss and describe the form and style of the poems . Take every opportunity to read, note language and text features of a report or recount . Shared Writing Teacher modelling - to demonstrate a variety of forms, the skills of brainstorming , of gathering and organising information, editing and proof reading , publishing. Using a photograph, digital photograph or their own drawing, students write a description about a tree observed.
Students select one tree to research .
Students working together in small groups list the questions they would like answered about that tree. Using resources in the learning centre, they read to find these answers. Each member of the group is to draw or photograph the tree, label the parts of the tree and write a fact file . Discuss and list nouns . Model a variety of poetic forms.