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Level: 4 Year: 7
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Unit Title:
Door Stories
Focus: Create a narrative utilizing figurative language, using the story starter of what happens when you
travel through a door.
Listening
Writing
SWPB4L/PRIDE Focus:
Participation
Respect
Inquiry
Diversity
Environment
Gifted&Talented Extension-
Achievement Objectives
PROCESSES & STRATEGIES: Students will integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies
confidently to identify, form and express ideas.
Learning Support -
NZC Vision:
Participation
Confident
Connected
Respect
Inquiry
Actively Involved
Diversity
High Expectations
Treaty of Waitangi
Cultural diversity
Inclusion
Learning to learn
Community engagement
Coherence
Future Focus
Lifelong Learners
Environment
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Learning Intention/
WALT
Describe senses in
descriptive detail
Use personification to
help describe every day
situations
Assessment
or Success
Criteria
Resources
#Door Templates
Shared writing:
In groups, students will each be allocated a door. Each student starts with a
piece of paper and the teacher allocates a sense (hear, see, smell, feel, taste).
They are asked to write, describing that sense as they come to the door. After
writing (2-3min) they pass their paper, folded so the person who receives it
cant see what theyve written, to the next person in their group and that person
writes about the next sense. At the end they read their piece of creative writing
to the group.
#A4 paper
#Simile and
metaphor activity
sheets (See
attached).
Personification:
Complete wordstudy tasks on personification, using it to describe situations and
events. Describe situations or events e.g. a rainy day shared and peer writing
work well with this activity.
The rain was a thousand tiny bullets pummelling the ground. The grass wilted
under the onslaught, however, shelter was not to be found.
Ideas to use are a summers day, a storm, walking through New York city looking up
at the sky scrapers.
#Personification
activity
#Picture of class
door or door of
school hall to use
as a prompt on
screen.
Students are encouraged to be creative and work on using prior knowledge, making connections to their own
experiences
(a reading focus for Term 1) to help them form ideas and write more comfortably.