Year Level: 4 Subject: English Key concept: Visualising Date: 28/2/2017

Reading Groups WK 1

Lesson title: Reading Groups Visualising. Curriculum:

Duration of lesson: 60min Broken down to 2 x 30mins or 2
rotations for Tuesday The students swap groups for Thursday.
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to
expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing
and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)
Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic,
grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for
example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing (ACELY1691)

Considerations for diversity (extension/alteration):

Groups Red and Green: Will work with Mr Brown.
Groups Blue and Yellow will be doing other rotation during this lesson.
The diversity will be in relation to the books the students will be using
during the lesson on prediction.
Yellow 20, Blue 30
Red - Level 14.
Green Level 25
(Purpose and learning outcomes)
Aim of the lesson: Students will understand what Visualising is and how to visualise prior to and when reading a
text.

Resources: Whiteboard, Markers. Red book Playtime Ball Sports, green book Mutt and the Lifeguards, pencils and
rubbers, prediction flowchart.

Introduction: (5min)
Introduce myself and set the expectations, regarding behaviour.
Transition students from their desks to the groups around the classroom
Red on the floor with me,
Mac Lit with Mrs Negrie,
Blue Spelling with Mrs Hegarty,
Yellow Comprehension with Mrs Hume,
Green Group independent work/on the floor with the teacher.
Use countdown from 5 to get the students into position ready for learning.

Body:
(30mins)
Group 1 Red Recap What the teacher modelled in the lesson about visualising prior to and when reading a text.
Recap riding the waves of success chart near the floor and how students get to each section.
Go over the visualising card with the students.
Teacher Today we are going to use a text and discuss how you visualise a text.
Teacher Hand out the texts and Senses chart copies. Advise students the senses chart is designed to encourage students to
think about how text can stimulate all the five senses. It could also be a way of activating prior knowledge for a topic.
Teacher Red group you will be reading Playtime Ball Sports. Before you read the teacher will read the text to the students.
Students Will follow in their own texts, looking at the pictures and what the teacher is reading to visualise what is going on
in the story.
Teacher Advise the students to create a mental image in their head of the story as they follow along. They are to use their
five senses as the teacher reads the text to them.
Teacher At the completion of the story, write the title of the topic in the square in the centre. Working together, students,
along with the teachers direction will complete each of the heading, relating them back to the story. They will only require a
couple of words for each area.
Teacher to students Glue their senses chart into their books, and get ready for the next rotation.

(30mins)
 Group 2 Green What the teacher modelled in the lesson about visualising prior to and when reading a text.
Recap riding the waves of success chart near the floor and how students get to each section.
Go over the visualising card with the students.
Teacher Today we are going to use a text and discuss how you visualise a text.
Teacher Hand out the texts and Senses chart copies. Advise students the senses chart is designed to encourage students to
think about how text can stimulate all the five senses. It could also be a way of activating prior knowledge for a topic.
Teacher Green group you will be reading Mutt and the Lifeguards.
Students Will read the text on their own. They will look at the pictures and what they are reading to visualise what is going
on in the story.
Teacher Advise the students to create a mental image in their head of the story as the read it using their five senses to
create a mental image in their head.
Teacher At the completion of the story, write the title of the topic in the square in the centre. Working with their elbow
buddy, students, will complete each of the heading, relating them back to the story. They will try and fill in the boxes with as
many words they can for each sense they discovered when reading the text. Depending on students level of understanding at
this point, the teacher may do the first one for the students to assist them.
Students Will report back to the teacher the information they discovered.
Teacher to students Glue their senses chart into their books, and get ready for the next lesson.

Conclusion:
Group 1 Red - Recap the lesson on visualising glue prediction senses chart in their books.
Group 2 Green recap the lesson on visualising glue senses chart in their books.

Assessment:
Formative observations of the students work in completing the senses chart.

Feedback:

Follow up lesson:
The next lesson will be again on visualising; however a new text will be used, with the senses chart.

Reflective comments and future alterations: