The very hungry caterpillar word level

There are much activities to do with this book. Some of them are:

ACTIVITY 1. What does the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat today?

We have the days of the week and then the names of fruit in our Word Wall. Children have to listen carefully to the teacher when she reads the story, and then, they have to match the cards with the name of the days with the fruit that the caterpillar eats each day.

The goal of the activity is that the children should be able to recognize the written words of days of the week and fruits.

If we would like to extend this activity, we could add cards with the name of the numbers to the Word Wall and ask the children to find the num ber of fruits that the caterpillar eats each day.

 

 

ACTIVITY 2. Point the words

In this activity, we work with high frecuency words related with the story “The very hungry caterpillar”. We use a Word Wall, and the children have to point specific words, acording to the following intructions:

- Can you point a word that ends with the letter “e?”
- Can you point a word that starts with the letter “c”?
- Can you point a word that has two syllables?
- Can you point a word that means “very small”?
- Can you point a word that makes sense in this sentence: “he was ___ very hungry”?
- Can you point a compound word?
- Can you point a word that rhymes with “moon”?

 

 

ACTIVITY 3. Do you remember how the story develops?

For this activity we need our story Word Wall with a table divided in beginning, middle and end, and also promptcards of content words that appear in the story. Children have to listen carefully to the teacher when she read a word. Then, the whole class will discuss where we should put this word. Finally the teacher will put the word in the correct box.

The goal of the activity is that the children should be able to recognize the content words of the story and also be able to order the story.

We can use questions like:
- When appear the word ‘egg’?...
- Can you find the word “ice-cream”? Can you stand up and point it?...
- How was the caterpillar at the beginning? Tiny, isn’t it? And when it ate so much food, how was it?So we put “big” in the beginning or the middle?
- Can you drag the word for me?...

 

 

ACTIVITY 4. I spy…

In the smart board, we show the children different pictures about the story and a determinate lines’ number. Each line is related with each letter of one of the picture´s word. The children have to guess the word seeing the picture and collocate and write it in the spaces. Can be more than one possibility for each picture.

For working with this activity we use the idea of “I spy with my little eye something that…”

· Clue 1. It´s in the picture.
· Clue 2. Ends with the letter …
· Clue 3. Has the letter … in it.
· Clue 4. Has … letters.
· Clue 5. Fits in the sentence: