In this lesson – Term 2 Review: Chapters 4 to 6 | Sharing the planet, How we express ourselves, Where we are in place and time
Term 2 | Level 2 | About 45 minutes, in four parts | All strands
Units of inquiry: Chapter 4: Animals Around Us (Sharing the planet); Chapter 5: Food and Celebrations (How we express ourselves); Chapter 6: Signs, Maps and Journeys (Where we are in place and time)
Key concepts: Form, Function, Responsibility, Connection, Perspective | Learner profile: Reflective | ATL skills: Self-management skills
PYP strand: All strands: receptive and expressive
I can show what I learned in Term 2 in reading, writing, speaking, listening, looking and phonics.
Curriculum links: This review checks the outcomes from Chapters 4, 5 and 6. IB PYP Language, Phases 1 and 2, across reading, writing, oral language and visual language. England Year 1: read words containing taught GPCs and -s, -es, -ing, -ed endings; write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher. Common Core RF.1.3, RI.1.1, W.1.2, SL.1.1 and L.1.2.
Key words: review | fact text | invitation | directions | vowel teams
Wonder
For the adult: ask this question before you start. Accept every idea. You will come back to it in Reflect.
What can I read, write and say now that I could not at the start of Term 2?
Let’s Learn
For the adult: read this part aloud. The review has four pages. Do one page a day, or two pages in one sitting.
This review checks what you learned in Term 2: Chapters 4, 5 and 6.
It has four pages. Page 1 is reading. Page 2 is writing. Page 3 is speaking, listening and looking. Page 4 is phonics, with a sentence to write at the end.
Read the texts on your own first. Ask an adult if you get stuck on a word.
Watch Me
For the adult: show how the dictation at the end of Page 4 works.
“You will hear a sentence. I say: The snail is slow in the rain. I say it again.”
“I count the words: The, snail, is, slow, in, the, rain. Seven words.”
“I listen for the long vowel sounds. Snail and rain have /ai/ in the middle, so I use ai. Slow has /oa/ at the end, so I use ow.”
“I start with a capital T, end with a full stop, and read it back to check.”
Let’s Try Together
For the adult: say each word aloud. The learner answers.
1. The adult says “cake”. Which vowel sound do you hear? How do you show it when you write?
Hint: It is a long a. Think of the magic e.
2. The adult says “star”. Is it ar or or?
Hint: Say it slowly: s-t-/ar/.
Your Turn
Name: ______________________
Page 1: Reading
1. Read the fact page
Sea Turtles
Home: Sea turtles live in warm seas. Some of them swim a very long way every year.
Food: Many sea turtles eat sea grass. Some eat jellyfish.
Babies: A mother turtle crawls onto a beach at night. She digs a hole in the sand and lays her eggs. When the babies hatch, they run straight to the sea.
Keep them safe: Plastic bags in the sea look like jellyfish. Turtles can eat them by mistake, and this makes them ill.
Word bank: turtle | jellyfish | hatch | plastic
a) Is this a fact text or a story? fact story
b) Under which heading would you find what turtles eat? ______________
c) Where does a mother turtle lay her eggs?
______________________________________________
d) Why is plastic in the sea bad for turtles? Write two sentences.
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
2. Read the invitation
Dear Ava,
Please come to my beach party!
When: Saturday at 2 o’clock
Where: 5 Sandy Lane
Please bring a towel and a sun hat.
From Leo
a) Who is the party for? Who wrote the invitation? ______________________________
b) When is the party? ______________________________
c) Why do you think Ava needs a towel and a sun hat?
______________________________________________
Page 2: Writing
3. Three facts
Write three fact sentences about elephants. You can use these words: trunk, grey, big ears, water, grass.
1. ______________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________
4. A postcard about the party
Pretend you went to Leo’s beach party. Write a postcard to your gran about it. Start with a greeting, say what you did and how you felt, and end with your name.
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Page 3: Speaking, listening and looking
For the adult: read the directions in the box aloud once. The learner does not see them.
Words for the adult
Task 6: “First, stand up. Next, walk to the door. Then, turn around. Last, hop back to your seat.”
5. Ask politely. Change this bossy sentence into a polite request. Say it, then write it.
“Give me the towel.”
______________________________________________
6. Listen and do. ☐ I did all four steps in order.
7. Ask questions. Ask the adult two questions about Leo’s party. Use who, what, where, when or why. Write one of them.
______________________________________________
8. Tell how. Tell the adult how to make a sandwich in four steps. Use first, next, then and last.
☐ I used four steps in order. ☐ I used the order words.
9. Read the menu.
a) What costs the most? ______________
b) You buy a sandwich and a juice. How many coins do you pay? ______________
10. What does the sign mean?
a) ______________________________________
b) ______________________________________
c) ______________________________________
Page 4: Phonics
11. Write the missing letters
For the adult: point to each picture and name it first: cake, train, boat, night, corn.
a) c ___ k ___ b) tr ___ ___ n c) b ___ ___ t d) n ___ ___ ___ t e) c ___ ___ n
12. Sort the words
Words: bird | tree | star | seat | fork | turn
long e (ee or ea): ____________ ____________
ar or or: ____________ ____________
er, ir or ur: ____________ ____________
13. Word endings and compound words
jump + ing = ______________ jump + ed = ______________ rain + bow = ______________
14. Write the sentence you hear
For the adult: say the sentence twice: “We rode the train to the farm at night.”
______________________________________________
Reflect
For the adult: talk about these with the learner.
1. Go back to the Wonder question: “What can I read, write and say now that I could not at the start of Term 2?” What do you think now?
2. I was reflective today when I ______________________________.
3. Which chapter this term did you enjoy most? Why?
Take action: Make a small book called My Term 2, with one page for each chapter: animals, food and celebrations, and journeys.
Answer Key
Reveal Answers
Let’s Try Together
1. long a; c-a-k-e, with a magic e at the end
2. ar
Page 1: Reading (Lessons 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 and 5.3)
1. a) fact b) Food c) On a beach, in a hole in the sand.
d) Sample answer: Plastic bags look like jellyfish, so turtles eat them by mistake. This makes the turtles ill.
2. a) The party is for Ava. Leo wrote it. b) Saturday at 2 o’clock c) Sample answer: It is a beach party, so she might swim and sit in the sun.
Look for: in 1d and 2c, reasons that use clues from the text.
Page 2: Writing (Lessons 4.4 and 6.4)
3. Sample answer: Elephants have a long trunk. Elephants are grey. Elephants drink a lot of water.
4. Sample answer: Dear Gran, I went to Leo’s beach party. We swam in the sea and ate sandwiches. I felt very happy. Love from Maya
Look for: three different facts in full sentences; a greeting, news, a feeling and a name in the postcard.
Page 3: Speaking, listening and looking (Lessons 4.6, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.5 and 6.7)
5. Sample answer: Please may I have the towel?
6. The learner stands up, walks to the door, turns around and hops back to their seat.
7. Sample answers: Who is going to the party? Where is Sandy Lane?
8. Sample answer: First, get two slices of bread. Next, spread the butter. Then, add the cheese. Last, put the top on.
9. a) Soup b) 5 coins
10. a) Do not go in this way. b) Take care. There is danger. c) Cross the road here.
Page 4: Phonics (Lessons 4.9, 5.9 to 5.11, 6.9 to 6.11)
11. a) cake b) train c) boat d) night e) corn
12. long e: tree, seat ar or or: star, fork er, ir or ur: bird, turn
13. jumping, jumped, rainbow
14. We rode the train to the farm at night.
Look for: o_e in rode, ai in train, ar in farm and igh in night. A capital W and a full stop.
For any task the learner missed, repeat the lesson shown in brackets before starting Term 3.
Next Steps
If this was easy, try: Start Term 3 with Chapter 7: Weather and Seasons. It begins with Lesson 7.1, Read a Weather Poem.
If this was hard, go back to: The lesson named next to each missed task in the answer key. Redo the Your Turn page from that lesson, then try that page of this review again.
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