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A sequence as an example

The document outlines a learning sequence for the story 'The Lion Inside,' focusing on engaging students through various activities before, during, and after reading. It includes discussions, dramatizations, and creative tasks to explore themes of friendship, courage, and self-identity. The sequence emphasizes the moral that regardless of size, everyone has both a 'mouse' and a 'lion' within them.

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A sequence as an example

The document outlines a learning sequence for the story 'The Lion Inside,' focusing on engaging students through various activities before, during, and after reading. It includes discussions, dramatizations, and creative tasks to explore themes of friendship, courage, and self-identity. The sequence emphasizes the moral that regardless of size, everyone has both a 'mouse' and a 'lion' within them.

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Story: The Lion Inside

A learning sequence

PRE

1) Showing a picture of a lion and a picture of a mouse


and associating words to them: scared - tiny - brave -
important - friend - powerful - little - quiet - small -
big - wonderful - loud - strong - respect - roar -
popular - learn – teach
2) Engaging in a conversation around the cover of the
story anticipating the story.
3) Showing the video Lion King Simba learns to roar. Reflecting: He is a lion,
is he big? Is he strong? Can he roar? What are the people’s reactions?
Do they respect him, or do they laugh at him? Does this change your
opinions about the lion or the mouse in the previous activity?

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DURING

4) Sharing the story including students’ voices and scaffolding their


understanding of it.

5) Response: what does this story tell you?

6) Non-verbal dramatisation: building the structure of the story and


going over the plot. (Problem - Idea/Plan - Action - Solution)

WHERE A lion lives on top of a big rock. A mouse lives in a crack of the big
rock.

WHO The lion is enormous and strong. He has a red mane. He is popular.
He can dance and he has many friends. He can roar.
WHO ELSE The mouse is tiny and meek. The elephant steps on him. The
zebra sits on him. He is invisible. He doesn’t have friends. He can’t roar. He
can squeak.

PROBLEM The mouse is tired and sad.

IDEA FOR SOLUTION One night he has an idea. ‘I want to have friends. I
want to be popular. I want to roar like the lion’.

PLAN So, the mouse reads and learns that the only teacher is the lion.

ACTION The mouse is afraid but he meets the lion. The lion is fast asleep.
He wakes up and shouts ‘eeeeeak’ because he is afraid of mice.

SURPRISE The mouse is very surprised. ‘I’m a friend’, says the mouse loud
and clear.

RESOLUTION The lion and the mouse are friends and they share the big
rock. The lion roars and laughs ha ha ha and the mouse speaks loud and
clear.

MORAL No matter your size. We all have a mouse and a lion inside.

7) Matching pictures with written version of the story and simplified


sentences.

- A lion lives on top of a big rock. A mouse lives in a crack of the big rock.

- The lion is enormous and strong. He has a red mane. He is popular. He


can dance and he has many friends. He can roar.

- The mouse is tiny and meek. The elephant steps on him. The zebra sits
on him. He is invisible. He doesn’t have friends. He can’t roar. He can
squeak. He is tired and sad.

- One night he has an idea. ‘I want to have friends. I want to be popular. I


want to roar like the lion’.

- So, the mouse reads and learns that the only teacher is the lion.

- The mouse is afraid but he meets the lion. The lion is fast asleep. He
wakes up and shouts ‘eeeeeak’ because he is afraid of mice.

- The mouse is very surprised. ‘I’m a friend’, says the mouse loud and clear.
- The lion and the mouse are friends and they share the big rock. The lion
roars and laughs ha ha ha and the mouse speaks loud and clear.

- No matter your size. We all have a mouse and a lion inside.

8) Matching pictures with written literary elements: characters, problem,


setting, solution, message, surprise moment, plan, idea, action.

9) Matching key objects with sentences and statues.

10) Making a poster by writing key words from the story.

11) Blow the fish: true or false?

- The mouse has an idea while he was walking.

- the lion is fast asleep when the mouse meets him.

12) Sort out sentences: which ideas correspond to which story? (The Lion
King and The Lion Inside)

The lion is afraid of mice.

The lion's father dies.

13) Memo Test: match these key words and say the idea

on crack
tiny friends

like the idea


lion

scared meets

fast Eeeeeek!
asleep

surprised of mice

inside share
14) Building a puzzle + telling the story following the story elements
15) Key Words: Tell the story from key words. Differentiated Instruction.

14) Reflecting upon the first activity and going back to the words to see if
students’ perception about the animals has changed.

15) Different points of view or versions of the story.

16) Post a review of the story on Goodreads.

17) Complete with one word

The Lion Inside by Jim Field and Rachel Bright

A lion lives on top of a big rock. A ____________ lives in a crack of the big
rock.

The lion is enormous and strong. He has a _____________ mane. He is


popular. He can dance and he _______________ many friends. He can roar.

The mouse is tiny and meek. The elephant steps on him. The __________
sits on him. He is invisible. He doesn’t have friends. He ______ roar. He
can squeak. He is ________ and sad.

One night he has an idea. ‘I want to have _________________. I want to be


popular. I want to _____________ like the lion’.
So, the mouse reads and learns that the only teacher is the
_______________.

The mouse is afraid but he meets the lion. The lion _____________ fast
asleep. He wakes up and shouts ‘eeeeeak’ because he is ______________ of
mice.

The mouse is very surprised. ‘I’m a friend’, says the _______________ loud
and clear.

The lion and the mouse are friends and they ________________ the big
rock. The lion roars and _______________ ha ha ha and the mouse speaks
loud and clear.

No matter your size. We all have a mouse and a _____________ inside.

18) Playing Charades with ideas from the story

When the mouse meets the lion he is fast asleep.

19) Tell the story in groups and with an attentive audience

20) Write the story

21) Sing the rap version of the story:


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22) Share other stories which have lions and mice as characters or the
topic of proactivity and identity.

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