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Language comprehension: 'The Beach'

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Communication and language

﻿Hello, my name is Leanne, and I'll be your teacher for this lesson. Today, were thinking about holidays and I've decided we're going to focus on the beach. Some of you might not have been to the beach and that's okay. We're going to learn lots about the beach today, and then maybe you could take a trip. So find a comfortable space where you know, you can work and let's get started. To get ready for today's lesson, find a quiet space to work away from any distractions. Make the area a comfy reading space. Make sure that if you have any resources that are nearby and you can use a familiar reference to prepare the learner that the activity is going to start. This could be a symbol, a sound or a song, press pause while you get things ready. It's time to look, listen and learn. Today's story is the beach by Alison Hawes, illustrated by Lisa Smith. This book is read with permission of HarperCollins children's books. It's time for today's story, The Beach by Alison Hawes, and illustrated by Lisa Smith and a big thank you to HarperCollins children's books for giving us permission to read this story today. So on the front cover of The Beach, I can see some children and they're packing their car ready for their trip to the beach. I can see a bucket and spade, and I can see a beach ball. Let's see what else we can find at the beach. Look, we can see this seagulls, the children are sat in the back of their car and their looking out the window and they can see seagulls. Have you seen a seagull before? Look, we can see the ice cream van. Sometimes you don't see the ice cream van. You can hear it coming, cause you can hear the music. Oh, what's that? It's a dog and he's stolen the ice cream. Look at that ice cream, that looks like strawberry ice cream. What's your favourite flavour of ice cream? Let's see what's next. Look, we can see the sand there's the sand, but look, that's not the beach. What are they doing? Their building, their building and their making with sand. Look at that. What's this that's not a car. What is it? Let's see what's next. Look, we can see the sea. That's not the sea. Look, look at these white birds. Do you know what these are called? It begins with a S, they are swans, and swans usually live in rivers or maybe lakes, but not the sea. I think this is a park. Let's see what's next. Oh, look. We can see mum and dad. Mum and dad look happy. Oh. Where are mom and dad now, what can you see? I think that's the sea. I think the family have made it to the beach. Let's find out. Look, we can see the beach. Oh, look at the children's faces. How is he feeling? Does he look sad? Sad, or does he look happy? What about his sister? Does she look sad or does she look happy? I think they both look very happy because they're at the beach now. And they go into play with their buckets and spades. Oh look at all of the things you can find at the beach, the sea, oh, the seagulls. They like to fly around near the sea. The sand. This is where the children are going to play in the sand. Mum and dad are relaxing. They've got a nice picnic there. Look what's this? It's the ice cream van. So if they're all feeling very hot, they might walk up and go and get a nice ice cream to cool them down. What would you like to do if you went to the beach? You can talk to your adult and you can discuss different things that you would love to do at the seaside and the beach. That's the end of our story today, thank you for listening. Now let's carry on thinking about the beach and let's look at different things we might see if we visited the beach, can you identify them all? Look, what can you see? Hmm. It's yellow and it's made of wood. Hm. What do you think it is? Are you ready to see? This is a deck chair. You might sit on a deck chair if you go to the beach. Let's see what's next. Look, what can you see? Oh. This one is yellow too. One is big and you can put things inside of it and think that that's a bit different. What do you think it is? Are you ready to find out? It is a bucket and spade. So if you've visited the beach, you might take a bucket and spade, and you might dig and put sand in your bucket and then make a wonderful sand castle, are you ready to see what's next? Look, what can you see? Oh, I see lots of these when I go to the beach, I sometimes pick them up and put them in my pocket and collect them. If you put them by your ear, you can sometimes hear the sea. What do you think it is? Are you ready to find out? It's a shell. Wow. If you go to the beach, you can collect some shells to take home. Let's see what's next. Wow. What can you see? It's lots of different colours, I can see white and green, orange, yellow, blue, and red. Do you know what this is called? It's time to find out, it's a beach ball. If you have a beach ball, you can take it to the beach with you and you can play throwing and catching and rolling with your beach ball. If you'd like to make this lesson easier, you can provide additional resources to support the storytelling. You could also use symbols or pictures rather than words to support storytelling. An adult can help rephrase ideas or act as a scribe when writing. To make this lesson harder, try to produce extended writing, relating to the story. You could also build sentences around the story and practise these before writing them. For more ideas of things to do now that the activity has finished. You can think about a holiday you've been on. You can use paints or pens to create a piece of art around your holiday, label the picture and comment on what you're drawing. So that's the end of our lesson for today. I would say a big thank you for taking part in my lesson and a huge well done for all the learning that you've achieved today. So I'm going to say goodbye, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your learning with Oak. we would love to see your wonderful work. Please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging at Oak National and hashtag learn with Oak.

Language comprehension: 'The Beach'

Language comprehension: 'The Beach'

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