- Article
- Orbit, Year 5
- Issue 6, 2019
Have Fur Will Travel
Learning resource
Outcomes
Worksheet: A stuffed animal diary entry
Understanding EN3-3A
Create a True/False quiz from the text, using this True False Quiz Sheet worksheet. Students can generate many questions from the text to demonstrate their understanding.
Support: Question Creation Chart.
Extension: Students create a Kahoot.
Engaging personally EN3-2A, EN3-5B & EN3-8D
Point of View: Write a descriptive narrative from the point of view of a stuffed toy that has seen Tokyo or another holiday destination. Experimenting with point of view allows students to explore other ways of seeing. Option to publish using Storybird or Book Creator. Explore further the English Textual Concept ‘Point of View’.
Write a short descriptive ‘review’ about a Unagi sight-seeing tour. Brainstorm ideas to support student writing. Use the vivid descriptions in the article, for example, ‘Then the whirlwind tour begins…’ to imagine what the tour would be like. Use familiar locations or recent holiday experiences to inspire student writing.
Connecting EN3-8D
Text-to-Text connections occur when we make connections between other texts in relation to the text we are reading.
Text-to-Text: How do the ideas in this text remind you of another text (story, book, movie, song, etc.)? Complete one of the following statements:
- What I just read reminds me of (story/book/movie/song) because …
- The ideas in this text are similar to the ideas in … because …
- The ideas in this text are different than the ideas in … because …
Students complete a Text-to-Self Connections worksheet and can discuss as a class.
Teaching Strategy explained: Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World Rationale.
Engaging critically EN3-7B
Research and write an informative article about Unagi Travel. Use ‘Have Fur Will Travel’ as a model/scaffold to support student writing. Locate more information and images at the Unagi Travel website.
Write a persuasive letter to convince parents to send students’ stuffed toys to Japan for a Unagi holiday tour. Scaffold arguments using this Persuasion Map worksheet to organise thinking.
Experimenting EN3-6B, EN3-8D & EN3-7C
Design a new tour for stuffed animals in an Australian location. Students can use their local area as a sightseeing attraction. Brainstorm ideas to support and encourage student imagination and creativity. Option to use digital photography or digital filming to create short films as seen on YouTube. Watch this Unagi Travel video clip of a Tokyo tour by stuffed toys for inspiration and ideas.
Write a catchy commercial to advertise a new Australian Unagi Travel tour, using free software on Biteable.
Create an advertisement or design a brochure to encourage people to send their stuffed toys to Unagi Travel.
Reflecting EN3-9E
Conduct an I used to think ... But now I think … routine. This routine helps students to reflect on their thinking about a topic or issue and explore how and why that thinking has changed. It can be useful in consolidating new learning as students identify their new understandings, opinions, and beliefs. Record responses on this I Used to Think … Now I Think … worksheet.
Exit Slips are a formative assessment that can be used to quickly check for understanding. The teacher poses one or two questions in the last couple minutes of class and asks student to fill out an ‘exit slip’ (e.g. on an index card) to ascertain student thinking and understanding. Here are Instructions on filling out an Exit Slip and two Exit Slip worksheets.