Dragon’s Wombat’s Big Ted Goes Down Animals Freddy Fox’s Amazing Plants Scarlett’s Surprise Big Breakfast Stormy Sea Story the Catwalk from Eggs Fur of Australia Level 13 Level d Book Wool Written by Tracey Michele Tracey by Written Text Type Information report Information 295 Count 13 Type help Frequency Level Word Introduced Text High Word/s We have designed these lesson plans so that, if you wish, you can have the plan in front of you as you teach, rather than a copy of the book. Each page of the book is illustrated in the plans together with some suggestions for teaching. These have been divided into questions and discussion that you may have before the children read the book and after the children have completed the reading. Some of you may prefer to explore the meaning and the language in more detail before the children read. Your decisions will depend on the gap between the children’s current knowledge and the content, vocabulary, and language of the book they are about to read. Remember that the more information the children have up front, the easier it will be for them to read the text. However, this does not mean that you should read the text to them first.

We have addressed four areas that we think are important in developing good readers. As well as comprehension and decoding, we have addressed the issue of children being able to analyse and use the texts they read. The symbols below guide you to the type of question or discussion.

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Cover Ask the children to describe the Discuss the contents page. Tell & Title front cover and contents page. Is the children it shows the smaller this a story book or an information parts of the main topic. It tells Page book? What things tell us this? where to find the smaller parts.

Wool Wool

Contents

BEFORE READING Introduction ...... 2 Sheep ...... 4 ...... 6 Alpacas ...... 8 Rabbits ...... 10 Goats ...... 12 Dogs ...... 14 Index ...... 16

Written by Tracey Michele Written by Tracey Michele

What is this book about? What do What smaller part is on page 10? the children already know about What will we learn about on page wool? Where does it comes from? 14? Do rabbits and goats have wool? What can it be made into? How is this page useful?

AFTER READING 2 Dragon’s Wombat’s Big Ted Goes Down Animals Freddy Fox’s Amazing Plants Scarlett’s Surprise Wool Big Breakfast Stormy Sea Story the Catwalk from Eggs Fur of Australia 3

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2/3 AFTER READING READING AFTER BEFORE READING BEFORE 6/7

What is the heading? What is this animal? How is a different from a sheep?

Llamas BEFORE READING

Llamas have two woolly coats. Their undercoat is very fine. Their outer coat is not so fine. You can get the wool from llamas by brushing their coats. You can get the wool by shearing it, too. You can make clothes from llama wool. A llama has two kinds of wool to help it stay warm.

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What two ways can people get Ask the children to find the words with wool from a llama? Can we ing on the end. Identify wool. What other make clothes from llama wool? words have the oo sound? What word here is made from two smaller words? AFTER READING

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What is the heading? Ask the children to describe this animal. Which animal does it look like?

BEFORE READING Alpacas

Alpacas look like little llamas. You can get wool from alpacas. You get the wool by shearing. Alpaca wool is like sheep wool. But it is softer.

An alpaca has soft wool.

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What is alpaca wool like? Have the children find the word that ends with How is it different from le. What word means the opposite? Can the sheep wool? children spell big? Clap the syllables in the word alpaca. How many are there?

AFTER READING 4 Dragon’s Wombat’s Big Ted Goes Down Animals Freddy Fox’s Amazing Plants Scarlett’s Surprise Wool Big Breakfast Stormy Sea Story the Catwalk from Eggs Fur of Australia 5 . But . Have them place place them . Have 11 13 very Read the caption. What What caption. the Read the describe words two wool? rabbit's A cashmere goat goat A . soft has . What word here rhymes rhymes here word . What The angora rabbit rabbit The . soft fine, has ? rough on the board. Tell the children these on the children the board. Tell eat rough , and , and with Have the children point to the word word the to point children the Have Identify sentences. new in word the Place word the in sentences to clarify meaning and use. Write Write use. and meaning clarify to sentences in of push , and Ask the children to find the word word the find to children the Ask it in sentences to share with the group. Have them place place them Have group. the with share to sentences in it off are action words. What action words are on this page? are on words are What action this words. action chop What animal is in the photo? photo? the in is animal What seen of any the children Have what guess they Can goats? like? be might wool goat Goats body. on their wool have Goats tough very is legs, too. on their wool have They wool goat Some rough. and soft. is wool some goat But comes wool Cashmere goats. cashmere from It is very soft wool. easy not is wool Cashmere a goat, from get to money. of a lot costs so it Rabbits coat. a woolly have Some rabbits coat. a woolly has rabbit angora The Angora rabbits’ wool is soft. It is very fine, too. wool. rabbit can off cut You too. off, can pull it You hurt not does wool the off Pulling rabbit. the 12 10 Have the identify children the animal in the photo. What be might special wool? a rabbit’s about

What information does caption the information What from made clothes do Why give? a lot? cost wool cashmere What is special about a about special is What Does pulling wool? rabbit’s rabbit? the off hurt wool the

10/11 12/13 AFTER READING READING AFTER BEFORE READING BEFORE BEFORE READING BEFORE AFTER READING READING AFTER 14/15 What is the heading? What kind of dog What do the children think is in the photo. Do the children think of the book? Why? Is this a people can get wool from the poodle? good idea for a book? What information is in the caption?

Dogs BEFORE READING

Many dogs have a hairy coat. But some dogs’ coats are woolly. Poodles have a woolly coat, like sheep. You do not make clothes from poodle wool. Poodles are pets. A poodle has a woolly coat, not a hairy coat.

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Ask the children why people do Ask the children to find the word Many. not use poodle wool to make Have them place the word in sentences. clothes. What might poodle wool Have them find coat. Can the children feel like? think of another word with the oa sound?

AFTER READING What two words here have the oo spelling?

16 What is this page called? Show the children how to use the index page. How is an index page different from a contents page? How might an index page be useful?

Index

angora ...... 10, 11

cashmere ...... 12, 13 BEFORE READING

clothes ...... 2, 5, 6, 14

farmers ...... 5

shearing...... 5, 6, 8

woolly coat(s). . . . . 2, 4, 6, 10,

14, 15

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Have the children use the index to find What did the children like most about information about farmers. What pages this book? Have them find three facts to give information about angora? What share with the group. Would the children information is on page 12? recommend the book to their friends? AFTER READING 6 13 d Wool Name ______

Put the words in the correct sentences.

There Their They’re

______undercoat is very fine. ______going to the wool shop. ______are a lot of sheep in New Zealand.

Write two sentences using two of the words. ______

What two smaller words make these words? undercoat ______+ ______birthday ______+ ______basketball ______+ ______

Permission is given to teachers to reproduce this page for classroom use. 13 d Wool Name ______

Here are some oi and ai words. Put the words in the right boxes.

mainly point noise late brain coin rain wait painted loin foil grate

oi words ai words

Permission is given to teachers to reproduce this page for classroom use.