A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that revises the main comprehension strategies. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker and focuses on making connections.

8 Lessons

Grade: 3-4

Comprehension Strategies - Journey

This mini unit will explicitly step students through using key comprehension strategies to understand a wordless picture book. This unit uses the text ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker and gives students the opportunity to explore and analyse the rich illustrations and complex story plot. Students will also use drama and art to connect with the ideas in the book. These lessons can also be completed as a stand alone lesson and with another text of choice.

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that revises the main comprehension strategies. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker and focuses on making connections.

8 Lessons

Grade: 3-4

Comprehension Strategies - Journey

This mini unit will explicitly step students through using key comprehension strategies to understand a wordless picture book. This unit uses the text ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker and gives students the opportunity to explore and analyse the rich illustrations and complex story plot. Students will also use drama and art to connect with the ideas in the book. These lessons can also be completed as a stand alone lesson and with another text of choice.

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Essential Question/s

How do we use our reading strategies to understand a wordless picture book?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Numeracy
Critical and Creative thinking
Personal and Social Capability

Lessons

8 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that revises the main comprehension strategies. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker and focuses on making connections.

Journey - Making Connections

Make and explain connections to a specific word.

Lesson 2

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that revises the main comprehension strategies. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker and focuses on predicting.

Journey - Picture Detective Predictions

Use clues to make predictions and build literal and inferred meaning.

Lesson 3

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that revises the main comprehension strategies. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker and focuses on inferring.

Journey - Think, Puzzle, Explore Inferring

Makes considered inferences using evidence from the text.

Lesson 4

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that revises comprehension strategies. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker and focuses on retelling by using drama.

Journey - Drama Retell

Students can retell the main parts of a story.

Lesson 5

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that revises the main comprehension strategies and looks at story structure. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker and describing settings.

Journey - Describing Settings

Create a vivid description of places within a text.

Reading | Writing

Lesson 6

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that engages students in drawing a story map and using objects to create a 3D version of the story.. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker.

Journey - Mapping the Journey

Give a verbal retell of a story using pictures, images and objects.

Reading | Writing

Lesson 7

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that engages students in planning a sequel. This lesson uses Journey by Aaron Becker.

Journey - Magic Crayon Sequel

Plan a sequel using characters and ideas from a story.

Lesson 8

A fun reading lesson for grades 3 and 4 students that engages students in creating an artwork based on the book ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker.

Journey - Magic Door Artwork

Create an artwork in response to the text ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker.

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