Hi everyone. My name's Leanne. What's your name? Cool. Nice to meet you all. Thank you for coming today to my Mini Lesson. We're going to read a book together and learn some things.
Let's check out our learning intention. So today we are learning how to use clues to work out the meaning of words we don't know. And there are five things that we will have to do to be successful today. I will reread and read on. I will use sentence clues. I will use illustrations and I will share my thinking by making connections and asking questions. And that part where I share my thinking, I'm going to have to do that out loud because if I just have my own thoughts inside my brain, you won't know what I'm thinking. So I'll do that part out loud so you can hear me and you can learn how to do it as well. And the last thing that I will do is use my imagination and we'll talk about that while we're reading the book.
The title of the book today is Imagine by Alison Lester. And when I saw the title, Imagine it reminded me of a word that looks similar to imagine. And that word is image. Image looks similar at the start. And so does another word that I know. Imagination. Hm. So all those words have a similar meaning. So I know that an image is like a picture. So if I was to use my imagination, then I would be putting like pictures inside of my brain and that would help me to understand the story. Okay. So this book might be about someone imagining something. That gives me a clue. Hmm. I wonder if the two characters in this story, the boy and the girl, I wonder if they're going to use their imagination. Hmm. Let's find out. Imagine by Alison Lester. Imagine if we were deep in the jungle where butterflies drift and Jaguars prowl, where parakeets squawk and wild monkeys howl. Wow.
Hang on. I thought these children were playing in the tree house? Those were the two characters that we saw on the front of the book. And I can see that they're playing in their tree house. But when I turn the page, I have gone to this beautiful jungle habitat. I know they're using their imagination so they're actually playing in their tree house, but in their imagination they are pretending to be at this beautiful jungle. Wow.
Imagine if we were like fish in the ocean where anemones wave and hammerheads glide, and seahorses rock and hermit crabs hide. I know where they are. They're in a beautiful ocean habitat. Wow. And look all the way around the outside of this page I can see different animals, and some of them I know like hermit crab. I know what a hermit crab is because I used to have a pet hermit crab. Have you seen a hermit crab. before? Maybe there's some other ones that I know or some that I don't know. Hmm. Trumpet fish. I've never seen a trumpet fish before. I know that a trumpet is a type of instrument and it's long at the front and you blow into the long instrument to make the noise. If I look at the illustration, ah, this fish looks like it has a trumpet at the front of its face. I think that might be the trumpet fish. What do you think?
Imagine if we were crossing the ice cap where penguins toboggan and arctic hares dash, where caribou snort and killer whales crash. Hang on. I've just noticed a pattern. I can see that the author is explaining what all of these different animals are doing, like the whales crash. I know what that means and snort and dash. I know those words, but penguins toboggan. How would a penguin toboggan? Maybe I can look at the illustrations and that might give me a clue. First I'll find the penguins. Here they are sliding down the ice and I know that tobogganing has to mean something that the animals are doing, so tobogganing must be like how the penguins are sliding down the ice. That looks like fun. Have you ever been tobogganing before? You would have to go to the snow, I think, to do some tobogganing.
Imagine if we were out in the country where horses gallop and cattle graze, and turkeys gobble and sheep dogs laze. Well, on this page the author is also describing what the animals are doing, so I'm going to use a sentence clue to work out some of the words that I don't know on this page. So I know what cattle grazing is. That means they're eating and sheep dogs laze, well. That sounds like they're being lazy, doesn't it? Lying around just like these cats being lazy as well. But turkeys gobble. Gobble sounds like eating. When you gobble something it's like you're eating something. Let's have a look at the picture and see if we can get a clue. So first I have to find the turkey. Well there is a Turkey here and I can see there's lots of chickens as well, but the chickens are the ones that are eating, not the Turkey. What could the Turkey be doing? Gobble. Gobble. I know once when I visited a farm, I could hear the noise that the turkeys were making and it sounded like this gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. So that's what the Turkey's doing. He's making lots of noise.
Imagine if we were surrounded by monsters where Pteranodons sweep and Triceratops smash, where Stegosaurus stomp and Tyrannosaur gnash. Wow. I wonder what this habitat is. Wow. It's a dinosaur swamp habitat. Hmm. Even though dinosaurs are extinct, you can still use your imagination like the children and pretend that you are in the dinosaur habitat too. Imagine if we were on a safari where crocodiles lurk and antelope feed, where leopards attack and zebra stampede. Let's see if we can see some of the things that the animals were doing in this picture. Oh, here are the zebras stampeding and I can see the antelope. Well, they finished feeding. Now they're trying to get away from the cheetah. Imagine if we were alone in the moonlight where bandicoots nibble and wallabies jump, where wombats dig burrows and kangaroos thump. They're in an Australian habitat now, how beautiful. Imagine if we had our own little house with a cat on the bed and a rug on the floor and a light in the night and a dog at the door. Imagine. There's the boy and the girl. So all of this time there were actually inside their house, but they were using their imagination to go to all of those beautiful habitats.
Okay, let's check to see if I was successful. So the first clue that I had to use was reread and read on. I did lots of that while I was reading. Then I had to use sentence clues. Do you remember when I didn't know the word toboggan? And I had to use a sentence clue? I had to think, Hmm, what was the animal doing? And I looked at the illustration and I saw the penguins sliding down the ice, and then I found out that that's what tobogganing was. So I was successful again. Then I had to share my thinking by making connections and asking questions. I made lots of connections to things that I already know and I asked lots of questions. And the last thing I did was use my imagination. Did you see me using my imagination? Just like the children in the book? Adults and children both use their imagination. So I think next time you're reading by yourself at home and you find a word that you don't know, you can use the clues just like me so you can be successful too. And you might like to be like the children in the book and make your own habitat by using your imagination at home. I hope you have fun. Bye.