Year 1 Term 2 Week 3 Authors Centre Prompt: Make a ‘What is it? book of clues. This term Year 1 students are focusing on literal descriptions and using descriptive language orally, and in their writing to make it more interesting. The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or object in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind. Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all your five senses. Introduction: Explain to the students that each centre has new prompts but today we will look more closely at the Author’s Centre. Read the prompt to the students and tell the students that we will be focusing on the use of adjectives in today’s lesson. Show the students the video about adjectives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDma5RUjw9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3H12YNlxo TPS Ask students ‘What an adjective is and its purpose. Come up with a definition as a class. Explain that adjectives are describing words that give more information about a noun and that their five senses can help them construct adjectives. Ask students to identify the five senses. Display the ‘speechie’ cards on the board and discuss each one. Point out the five senses. Tell the students that each of these cards can be used to help us identify adjectives. As a class, brainstorm adjectives appropriate for each card. Teacher writes given adjectives under pictures. (Write a few adjectives under each picture as examples. These lists of adjectives can be added to at a later stage).
Show the students the brown paper bags (mystery bags). Tell them each bag has a mystery object inside and they need to guess what’s inside each one based on the clues that I give them. Explain that the clues that will be given are adjectives to help the students guess the object. Start with bag #1. Put the clues (adjectives) on the board above the bag for students to guess. Have students use the clues to predict the object. Point out the fact that all these adjectives help the person guessing paint/create an image in their heads. These words told you how it looked, smelt, felt, tasted, what colour it was, what it was made from, etc Repeat the process with the remaining mystery bags. Inform students that today in the Authors Centre they need to choose objects from around the classroom that will fit into their brown paper bags. They need to keep this a SECRET! Encourage students to choose objects that can be easily described using adjectives. Students make a ‘What is it?’ book of clues where they will write adjectives (clues) that describe the hidden objects in their bags. Encourage students to write at least 4-5 adjectives for each object. Reflection: Students can share and read their ‘What is it?’ book of clues and have students predict/guess what the objects are in the bag. Discuss whether it was easy/hard to predict the objects being described? How did the adjectives help us to determine what was in the bag? Why are adjectives important in describing nouns?
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