Exploring Quality Texts: A Year 1 English Adventure

Exploring Quality Texts: A Year 1 English Adventure

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to identify key elements of a quality text and discuss its significance.

What do you already know about exploring quality texts?

Introduction to Quality Texts

Quality texts are engaging, well-written stories that captivate the reader's imagination and teach important lessons.

Exploring Characters

Characters are the people or animals in a story. We can learn about their feelings, actions, and thoughts.

Discovering Settings

Settings are where and when the story takes place. They help create a picture in our minds as we read.

Uncovering Plot

The plot is what happens in a story. It includes the problem, events, and the solution.

Understanding Themes

Themes are the big ideas or messages in a story. They can teach us valuable lessons about life.

Artistic Expression

Illustrations can bring a story to life and help us understand the characters, settings, and emotions better.

Interactive Story Time

Let's read a quality text together and discuss the characters, settings, and plot as we go along.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.