All You Need to Teach - Info Literacy 5-8

Second Year at School
Hint
Readers’ theatre allows students to participate in
a dramatic presentation with confidence because
they have the support of the script in front of
them. As well as developing literacy skills, it helps
students understand the concept of taking turns
and the importance of sequence.
Building Humpty
Follow these instructions to make a Humpty:
• Trace around a large oval shape onto a piece of
white or beige paper. Cut out.
• Cut facial features from coloured paper. Glue
these to the top part of the oval.
• Make trousers by tracing around a half-oval
shape on coloured paper. Cut out and glue on the
bottom part of the white or beige oval.
• Cut braces from coloured paper and glue these on.
• Cut a bow tie from coloured paper using two
small triangles and a square. Glue on.
• Fan-fold four strips of paper for his arms and legs
and attach these.
Choose your own adventure
Expand the rhyme into a story so students can retell
it, choosing their own adventure for Humpty. Draw
the table below, making it look like a wall of bricks.
Have students suggest up to five words to fill in the
gaps. (The ideas shown in brackets are suggestions.)
Retell the story.
Inside eggs
Create a mind map to show what students already
know about eggs. Begin a discussion about which
creatures lay eggs.
Are hens the only creatures which lay eggs?
Create a chart with three columns headed ‘Yes’, ‘No’
and ‘Maybe’. Display pictures of a variety of creatures.
Decide which hatch from eggs, which do not and
those they are unsure of. Place each in its appropriate
column. Have students work in pairs, give each pair
a picture of a creature and have them search the
nonfiction books to see if it is an egg-layer.
Which creatures were in the correct column?
Where do the creatures in the ‘Maybe’ column go?
Were there any surprises?
Did we discover any other egg-laying creatures?
Create a collage using magazine pictures, clipart or
an online resource such as Kidspiration to show all
the creatures that lay eggs.
Out of the egg
View an egg hatching using the suggested clips,
or search the internet for ‘egg hatching’. Discuss
the sequence then trace and cut two oval shapes,
cutting one of these in half to resemble a cracked
eggshell. Draw something that hatches from an
egg, cut it out and attach a ‘spring’ made from
fan-folded paper to the back. Attach the other end
of the spring to the centre of the whole oval. Fit the
cracked pieces on top, attaching them at the edges
so they open and the creature inside pops out.
Make a class book of creatures that hatch from
eggs. Have each student contribute a drawing
accompanied by the caption, ‘A . . . hatches from
an egg’. Have students complete BLM 20.
Humpty
Dumpty lived
Place
[on a farm]
He
was
Description
[always looking for
an adventure]
Around the
Place
[farm]
was a
Adjective
[brick]
wall.
On the other side of the wall
was
Place
[the army
barracks]
which Humpty
Dumpty had always
wanted to explore.
One day Humpty
Dumpty decided to
see what was on the
other side of the wall.
He
Verb
[got his mountaineering gear
and climbed up the wall]
But, alas,
poor Humpty
Dumpty
Verb
[leaned over too
far]
And down he fell.
SPLAT!
The king’s men
came to his rescue
but even though
they used
Noun
[bubblegum]
they couldn’t
put Humpty
together again.
So poor Humpty
Dumpty was
Conclusion
[made into an
omelette for the
king’s breakfast]
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