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Support Materials for Students with Special Education Needs
English K–6
Case Studies
Case study 1
Tiered learning experiences and assessment opportunities
(cont)
Learning experiences and assessment opportunities
Tier 2
1)
Sequencing the events of the complication
Each student in the small group is provided with two sentence strips from the complication stage of
Koala Lou
.
The sentences capture the initiating events, character response and key events following.
As a group, students order the sentence strips to represent the sequence of events in Koala Lou. They glue the
sentence strips on a piece of paper, leaving space under each sentence strip.
After each group is finished, they join with another group and compare their ordering of events. They discuss
any differences.
The teacher encourages students to use connectives when talking about their sequence (eg first, next, finally).
Students compare their sequencing with the text.
2) After each sentence strip, the group adds a sentence starter and completes it with a thinking or feeling verb
to describe how Koala Lou and Koala Klaws thought or felt about the event(s). (Thinking and feeling verbs are
recorded on a word wall.)
Examples of sentence starters:
Koala Lou was __________.
Koala Klaws ___________.
She felt _______________.
She thought _____________.
Each group allocates a narrator and characters. They practise acting out the complication with the narrator reading
the sequence of events. Students use the sentences they added about what the characters were thinking and feeling
to assist with voice and body language. Students practise acting out the sequence of events to prepare for sharing
with the whole class.
Resources
•
Koala Lou
by Mem Fox
• Sentence strips
• Sentence starters
