A fun speaking and listening activity for Foundation students that uses story starters to build their vocabulary knowledge. Here we’ve drawn up some examples of story starters from the text ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

3 Lessons

Grade: K-K

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Vocabulary

This mini unit focuses on developing students’ vocabulary knowledge through building their bank of sight words and expanding their word knowledge. It uses the text ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle and provides students with opportunities to learn important, everyday language from the text. These lessons can also be completed as stand alone lessons and with other texts of choice.

A fun speaking and listening activity for Foundation students that uses story starters to build their vocabulary knowledge. Here we’ve drawn up some examples of story starters from the text ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

3 Lessons

Grade: K-K

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Vocabulary

This mini unit focuses on developing students’ vocabulary knowledge through building their bank of sight words and expanding their word knowledge. It uses the text ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle and provides students with opportunities to learn important, everyday language from the text. These lessons can also be completed as stand alone lessons and with other texts of choice.

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Essential Question/s

How can I as a writer build my vocabulary knowledge to help me when responding to new texts?

General Capabilities

Critical and Creative thinking
Literacy

Lessons

3 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun speaking and listening activity for Foundation students that uses story starters to build their vocabulary knowledge. Here we’ve drawn up some examples of story starters from the text ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

Lesson
Reading

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Story Starters

Build vocabulary knowledge by engaging in speaking and listening activities.

Lesson 2

A fun and engaging reading lesson for Foundation students that practices using sight words. Here we’ve drawn up an example of a ‘Sight Word Caterpillar’ using sight words from the text, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

Lesson
Reading

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Sight Word Caterpillar

Create a sight word caterpillar using language presented in the text.

Lesson 3

A fun reading lesson for Foundation students that practices using sight words. Here we’ve drawn up an example of a ‘Chatterbox’ using sight words from the text, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

Lesson
Reading

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Sight Word Chatterbox

Create a sight word chatterbox using words from the text to practise reading and spelling sight words.

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