Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
We read the story ‘Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus’ by Mo Willems. In this story the bus driver takes a break from his route, but then a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! We noticed the way the author used thinking clouds and speech bubbles and changed the way the text looked (craft moves) to express emotion.
Students choose to retell the story.
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SLO’s
- retell familiar stories, including key details
- identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
- follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page
- recognise that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters
- speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
The next day, we decided to draw our own pigeon.
A group of students decide to create their own stories about pigeons.
We explored how we can use some of these ‘craft moves’ in our own writing. We also discussed how books were made and noticed that books have/can have:
- a title
- the authors name
- pictures and words
When adding information students were invited to:
- add details to drawings
- add speech balloons to pictures to use dialogue
- include thinking clouds to share what the characters were or thinking or wondering about
Students choose to share their stories using multiple languages.
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SLO’s
- tell their own stories using illustrations and words
- observe, discuss and comment on the information being conveyed in illustrations
- use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic
