This paper provides a detailed case study of the 2017 stage adaptation created by the Irish-language theatre-company, Branar Téatar do Pháistí an adaptation that has been highly praised for the manner in which it captures ‘the spirit’ of Jeffers’ original text. Once I have a brief overview of a writing task I use a very basic 'fill in as you go' planner for individual writing goals, whole group goals and targeted students who work with me at the jellybean table.Oliver Jeffers’ best-selling picturebook How to Catch a Star (2004) has been the subject of several recent theatre adaptations for children. In the Procedure Two section I often go back and add additional words and phrases that I explained whilst reading. I have included my read aloud plan for the text below, with a brief writing focus following each read. There is little detail as to why the boy would like to be friends with a star and this became quite the unintentional topic of conversation between my students. How to Catch a Star is the story of a little boy who would like to catch a star so that he can befriend it. Instead of focussing on an overarching theme and selecting texts in response to that theme I am now selecting a text and basing our literacy centres and supplementary texts on our main focus text.Īs this week was the first week back I decided to use quite a simple text from a much loved author in our classroom, Oliver Jeffers. This term I have slightly diverted from my theme focus to a text focus. It's a teething process with endless ways of doing things, however I can without a doubt see the value of the P3 reading process. I have had (and continue to have) many struggles with implementing 元 in my classroom. The whole class focus on a particular theme has also seen a deeper understanding when it comes to topic specific vocabulary, which is particularly noticeable in their writing. Following a theme has allowed my students to really immerse themselves in a topic. I have absolutely loved using this structure in my classroom. Our literacy centres have been loosely based on theses theme and where possible I incorporate the weekly theme into other KLAs. With each theme I have selected different texts to use as our 元 Procedure Three texts, as well as supplementary texts for students to read independently or to be read as Procedure One texts. For the majority of this year I have had a fortnightly themes, such as the zoo, magical creatures, dinosaurs (just to name a few).

How to catch a star by oliver jeffers