Syllabus outcomes for
Bear and Chook books rap

Bear and Chook and Bear and Chook by the sea by Lisa Shanahan and Emma Quay Covers reproduced by permission of Hachette Children’s Books

Focus outcomes for English Early Stage 1

Learning to Read — Reading and Viewing Texts

RES1.5 Demonstrates developing reading skills to read short, predictable written texts on familiar topics.

Shared, Guided and Independent Reading

• draws on own knowledge to interpret characters and events in literary texts related to personal experiences
• speculates on the behaviour of characters in stories and discusses own behaviour in similar situations
• participates in class/group brainstorming activities to cluster and categorise ideas and facts following the reading of texts

Responding to Texts

• assesses role of visual images accompanying written text, eg in providing additional information or introducing new information

Subject Matter

• begins to read texts about less familiar topics.

Learning to Write – Producing Texts

WES1.9 Engages in writing texts with the intention of conveying an idea or message.

Joint and Independent Writing

• uses a framework to make notes, eg matrix, flowchart, semanticmap
• writes elementary descriptions of familiar things
• writes short recounts of personal experience
• expresses an opinion in writing
• contributes to joint construction of texts

Audience

• reads own writing to the teacher or to a peer

Channel of Communication

• uses drawings to accompany texts where relevant
• contributes to jointly constructed class blog messages

Learning to Write – Skills and Strategies

WES1.10 Produces simple texts that show the emergence of the grammar and punctuation needed to achieve the purpose of the text.

Grammar and Punctuation

• uses adjectives to provide more information about nouns
• uses creative word play in the writing of literary texts.
  
  

Linked outcomes for English Early Stage 1

Learning to Talk and Listen — Talking and Listening

TES1.1 Communicates with peers and known adults in informal situations and structured activities dealing briefly with familiar topics

Purpose

• expresses a point of view about texts read, heard or viewed

Audience, Subject Matter

• listens attentively and converses with others to share ideas or give information.

Learning About Reading — Context and Text

RES1.7 Demonstrates an emerging awareness that written and visual texts convey meaning and recognises that there are different kinds of texts that serve different purposes.

Purpose

• describes the purpose of organisational stages in familiar texts

Audience

• predicts from the cover and title the target audience of a text

Responding to Texts

• makes inferences and expresses an opinion about a character’s actions, qualities, characteristics and motives in texts read or viewed and speculates on own behaviour in a similar situation.

Learning About Writing – Context and Text

WES1.13 Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways.

Audience

• states the purpose and intended reader before writing

Subject Matter

• selects and refines topic before writing.