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Don’t Rock the Boat
Written by Ruth Corrin
Illustrations by Astrid Matijasevic
Whole class focus
Introducing the Text
• Children read the title. They say what happens to a boat if we rock
it, and tell you what they think might happen in a story with a title like
this.
Reading the Text
Guided reading
Teaching points
• Children work in pairs to talk through the illustrations, and read the
story together.
• Reread the story with the children. They take turns telling what
happens on each page.
• Children read page 7 and tell you how the sentence pattern is different
from the previous pages of the story. They suggest why the author
decided to make this pattern change.
• Children count the number of bears on each page. They work with
you to write number sentences.
2 +2 = 4
4+4=8
8 + 8 = 16
Children tell you what they notice about the number of bears that got on
each time.
Returning to the Text
Text work
Children retell the story in sequence, saying how many bears there were
at the beginning of the story. They draw the story sequence as a comic
strip and write the correct number on each picture. They take their work
home to share.
The Story
Some bears invite
their friends to go
boating. But the boat
turns out to be a bit
too small.
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Sentence work
Children reread the story and count the number of sentences on each
page. They suggest ways to rewrite the story with two sentences on each
page. Talk together about the word and in this story. Work with the
children to rewrite the story so each page has two sentences.
Children illustrate the story and make it into a big book.
Linguistic
structures
and features
Working with
the words
Spelling
“went”
Word work
Children read the word bear and tell you how to change it to make
bears. They say how to make boat into boats.
Guided Writing – small group focus
• Children write a new story based on Don’t Rock the Boat, with
different characters and different numbers. They illustrate their stories
and share their work with other children.
Directed Activities – whole class focus
Content words
boat
bear
more
swim
Running words
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• Work together to write safety rules for people in boats. Children
design and make Boat Safety posters, using crayon and dye. They
suggest appropriate places to display their posters.
Using the Online Activities
Lettergetter – features the sw- blend. Children click on three words
that begin with sw- to help Lettergetter get a rhyme, not some slime.
Then they click on the correct word ending to match the word they
hear and make the words swan, swing and swim.
Word Slurper – features went. Children click to pour paint over the
went to make sentences such as, Sue went blue.
Mighty Writer – features plural s. children click on words that need
an s to make them plural. Then they choose words and numbers to
make singular or plural sentences, e.g. One boot and two bears.
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