Lucky Undies: YEAR 2 - English - Explain
Little J feels lucky when he wears a new pair of yellow undies. After Old Dog destroys them, he loses his confidence. Big Cuz saves the day with the remnants of the undies made into a sweat band, and Little J finds confidence to play the basketball game and win the day.
Explain - Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately
Theme - TEXT
After viewing Little J & Big Cuz, episode 1, ‘Lucky Undies’, engage students with the following activities to support their understanding of Little J’s sense of luck and superstition.
In Episode 1 ‘Lucky Undies’, there are two opportunities to introduce students to Procedural Text:
- Super Snot
- Playing Basketball
Familiarise students with the information required to write a procedural text.
- Title, or heading
- Introduction
- Equipment, materials or ingredients
- Steps or process
- Visual elements
Suggested resources
- Recipes as procedural texts
- Procedure text
- Fry, Cs. (2001). Nardika learns to make a spear. Broome, WA : Magabala Books
- Procedure text
- What is a procedure?
As a class, view Little J & Big Cuz, Episode 1 ‘Lucky Undies’, and stop the clip at the beginning of the classroom experiment for Super Snot. Ask students to be very observant to identify the ingredients, equipment, and process used to make the Super Snot. Repeat the clip, viewing until the class identifies all information. If possible, and within safety guidelines, invite two students to make Super Snot in the classroom. Discuss and list the action words needed to complete the recipe: measure, pour, stir, mix, etc. Discuss and list the measurements or proportions of the ingredients.
View one of the video clips on Procedural Text or explain the requirements for a procedural text, and reinforce the requirements for what students need to explain through their procedural text (listed above). Provide students with a ‘Recipe template’ and have students complete it for making Super Snot.
Invite students to describe and explain the procedure for making their favourite recipe, craft item, or anything else where there is a direct process/procedure to follow.