Year 1 Bulletin

Learning Intention: 

To identify similarities and differences.

Learning Experience Overview: 

Comparing and contrasting can be challenging skills to learn. This week, part of our Reading Groups focus is to compare and contrast characters from a story. In this lesson we watched the story The Very Busy Spider and compared the spider to another character from the story, which included different farm animals. 

Whole: 

As a class, we watched a story called The Very Busy Spider. Students identified the spider as the main character, and we discussed the spider in comparison to other characters in the story.

Small:

The students went off into their reading groups, where we rotate four activities throughout the week. One of the activities this week relates to our The Very Busy Spider text, where students compare and contrast the spider with another character in the story using a Venn Diagram graphic organiser.

Share and reflect:

At the end of the lesson we did a Gallery Walk, where students walk around to each others’ desks and observe what their peers have been working on.

How you might like to continue learning at home:

• Talk about the different characters in the stories that you read.
• What is the same? What is different?
• Aim to use comparative language in your discussions; similar or dissimilar, same or different, more or less, like or unalike.
• Compare and contrast the main character with other characters in the story.
• Compare and contrast the characters with characters from other stories.
• Compare and contrast the characters to real life examples.