Food Dudes Curriculum Links for English

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1 Food Dudes Curriculum Links for English The Food Dudes theme can be used in a variety of ways to help develop skills in English. Suggestions are given for Oral Language, Reading Writing. Oral language Class discussions can be generated from Food Dudes related themes. For example discussing healthy eating the role of fruit vegetables; discussions about the Food Dudes characters the Junk Punks; discussions of likes dislikes, including favourite foods. Children can participate in discussions can learn to take turns in expressing their views opinions, in listening to others. They can develop memory re-call skills by retelling the video adventures in their own words. Str: Receptiveness to language Str unit: Oral language: developing receptiveness to oral language listen to a story or description respond to it listen to stories, descriptions, instructions directions respond to them listen to, retell tape a narrative or a description, taking turns giving the account 1

2 Str: Competence confidence in using language Str unit: Oral language: developing competence confidence in using oral language initiate sustain a conversation on a particular topic focus on the subject under discussion sustain a conversation on it give take turns in speaking experience a classroom environment in which tolerance for the views of others is fostered initiate conversations respond to the initiatives of others in talking about experiences activities use improvisational drama to re-create well-known characters give take turns in an environment where tolerance for the views of others is fostered Str: Developing cognitive abilities through language Str unit: Oral language: developing cognitive abilities through oral language listen to a story or a narrative ask questions about it listen to a story or narrative ask questions about it 2

3 discuss issues that directly affect his/her life discuss ideas concepts encountered in other areas of the curriculum Str: Emotional imaginative development through language Str unit: Oral language: developing emotional imaginative life through oral language listen to, learn retell a rich variety of stories, rhymes songs tell stories in his/her words answer questions about them re-create stories poems in improvisational drama express reactions to events characters in stories create sustain imaginary contexts through improvisational drama dramatise stories discuss plays, films television programmes 3

4 Reading Children, in particular younger children, can learn to become active listeners through listening to teachers read the letters aloud through watching listening to the Food Dudes episodes. Recalling retelling the adventure stories can help develop memory, thinking sequencing skills that are an important part of learning to read. The children also experience the teacher modelling reading when he/she reads the letters aloud. Str: Receptiveness to language Str unit: Reading: developing concepts of language print/developing strategies become an active listener through the development of a range of listening activities based on stories read or told telling retelling a story in sequence recalling relating a simple story or event, asking questions, role-playing refine his/her listening skills through hearing the teacher read aloud Str: Competence confidence in using language Str unit: Reading: developing reading skills strategies/reading for pleasure information experience the reading process being modelled 4

5 Str: Developing cognitive abilities through language Str unit: Reading: developing interests, attitudes the ability to think recall talk about significant events details in stories Writing There are a variety of ways in which Food Dudes can be used in written work, including: writing new adventure stories about the Food Dudes the Junk Punks writing character descriptions creating new Food Dudes characters improvising a dramatic scene between the Food Dudes the Junk Punks writing about it writing poems writing recipes using fruit veg children writing their own letters to/from the Food Dudes Whilst younger children can really enter into the belief that the Food Dudes have sent letters, older children can be encouraged to write in the style of the Food Dudes, perhaps writing letters for the younger children, to praise encourage them during phase 2. Children can share their work with the teacher the class, creating the opportunity for it to be read, valued, possibly even displayed. Str: Receptiveness to language Str unit: Writing: creating fostering the impulse to write write for different audiences 5

6 write regularly for different audiences explore different genres a story an invitation a letter choose the audience for which to write write for an increasingly varied audience Str: Competence confidence in using language Str unit: Writing: developing competence, confidence the ability to write independently give sequence to ideas events in stories Str: Developing cognitive abilities through language Str unit: Writing: clarifying thought through writing write in a variety of genres write a version of a story told by the teacher 6

7 read a story write it in his/her own words write in a wide variety of genres write for a particular purpose with a particular audience in mind Str: Emotional imaginative development through language Str unit: Writing: developing emotional imaginative life through writing draw write about things he/she likes dislikes draw write stories hear a rich variety of stories, rhymes songs draw write about them use mime role-playing to create imaginary situations then draw write about them draw write stories poems express in writing likes dislikes about events characters in stories poems express his/her reactions to particular experiences in writing write about favourite moments, characters vents in stories write stories poems write longer stories or a series of related stories in book form write short plays based on activity in improvisational drama 7