Cooperative learning activity that engages the students and increases motivation to write good predictions, through the use of group and individual work around predicting from Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost thing’ text.

5 Lessons

Grade: 5-6

Building Comprehension Strategies - The Lost Thing

This unit focuses on the key comprehension skills of Visualising, Predicting, Summarising, Questioning, Inferring, Monitoring, Connecting and Retelling. This unit uses the amazing Shaun Tan book ‘The Lost Thing’. These lessons can also be taught as stand-alone lessons or used with other texts. Students will take a deep dive into this text and recap on the importance of comprehension while reading.

Cooperative learning activity that engages the students and increases motivation to write good predictions, through the use of group and individual work around predicting from Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost thing’ text.

5 Lessons

Grade: 5-6

Building Comprehension Strategies - The Lost Thing

This unit focuses on the key comprehension skills of Visualising, Predicting, Summarising, Questioning, Inferring, Monitoring, Connecting and Retelling. This unit uses the amazing Shaun Tan book ‘The Lost Thing’. These lessons can also be taught as stand-alone lessons or used with other texts. Students will take a deep dive into this text and recap on the importance of comprehension while reading.

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Essential Question/s

How do we effectively use comprehension skills when reading?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and Creative thinking

Lessons

5 Lessons

Lesson 1

Cooperative learning activity that engages the students and increases motivation to write good predictions, through the use of group and individual work around predicting from Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost thing’ text.

Lesson
Reading

The Lost Thing- Powerful Predictions

Grades: 5-6

Make informed predictions, based on the title and front cover of a text.

Lesson 2

What an engaging way to recap the comprehension skill of connecting, by using sticky notes to identify where connections are made within Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost thing’ text.

Lesson
Reading

The Lost Thing - Making Connections

Grades: 5-6

Make and identify text-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

Lesson 3

What a better way to summarise by using (SWBST) Somebody (Who is the main character?), Wanted (What did the character want?) But (What was the problem?), So (How did the character try to solve the problem?) Then (How does the story end?) (SWBST) with the students. Linking to the amazing text ‘The Lost Thing’ by Shaun Tan.

Lesson
Reading

The Lost Thing - Zoom In Summary

Grades: 5-6

Use summarising skills to explain the main idea of a text.

Lesson 4

What a fun and engaging way to recap the comprehension skill of questioning, by getting the students to flip from writing questions to writing the answers first. Encouraging deep thinking of ideas and concepts used within Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost Thing’ text.

Lesson
Reading

The Lost Thing- Question Flipping

Grades: 5-6

Identify key themes from a text to help produce powerful questions.

Lesson 5

Lets create a quilt looking at the visualisation that everyone makes from a text. Using Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost Thing’.

Lesson
Reading

The Lost Thing - Visual Quilt

Grades: 5-6

Illustrate and discuss similarities and differences between visualisations.

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