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Teacher Resource
BOLDPRINT KIDS provides a Teacher Resource to
accompany each Student Book. The Teacher Resource offers:
BOLDPRINT KIDS is made up of 10 Student Books
per grade. Each Student Book is broadband levelled and
scaffolded towards more challenging text. The books are
highly visual, incorporating art, design, and graphics in
support of the printed text. Each book includes:
• scaffolded literacy support for dependent readers.
• carefully developed guided reading strategies for
• Theme Poster: an introduction to the book and
working with each of the selections in a book, so that
every child moves towards proficiency as a reader and a
writer with authentic texts during the reading process.
a connection to the themed selections that follow.
• Join-in: participatory, out-loud selections, which involve
• annotated suggestions for connected read aloud
the young readers in the sounds of language. These poems,
songs, and scripts motivate young readers to read the
words aloud, building fluency and word power.
books for shared reading and levelled books for
independent reading.
• Non-fiction: selections in a variety of text types, which
• blackline masters for supporting the key literacy
strategies in each selection.
• literacy support for sentence and story building for
interactive writing.
• assessment strategies and techniques for diagnosing
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draw upon the interests of today’s young readers with
non-fiction, incorporating powerful graphics along
with different print formats to create informative and
fascinating selections.
selections in each book.
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which honour the power of story through exciting and
accessible selections and retellings of world folktales for
young readers. Using predictable language and patterns,
repetition, and supportive illustrations and graphics, the
selections encourage successful reading and rereading.
• enrichment activities for interconnecting the
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• Fiction: stories from folklore and contemporary writers,
• Graphic Stories: fiction and non-fiction selections in
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graphic story format that represent new, contemporary
forms of literacy texts.
• Wrap up: summary of the themed selections that
invites young readers to engage in a variety of literacy
tasks as they reflect on the texts they have
successfully read.
and implementing effective interventions for literacy
achievement.
Boldprint Kids............................................................................................ 2
Crocs & Gators: At-a-Glance............................................................................ 3
Preparing to Read Crocs & Gators................................................................... 3
Poster: Never Smile at a Crocodile ... . ........................................................... 3
Teaching Plans
Good Morning, Mr Croco-doco-dile.............................................. 4
Blackline Masters......................................................................................... 8
Croc Talk and Gator Gab................................................................... 10
Blackline Masters....................................................................................... 13
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Alligator Attacks Tourists!................................................................ 15
Blackline Masters....................................................................................... 18
The Crocodile Hunter......................................................................... 20
Blackline Masters....................................................................................... 23
Monkey & Crocodile............................................................................ 24
Blackline Masters....................................................................................... 27
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Crocs & Gators Summative Assessment....................................................... 29
Making a Book: Did You Know ...?............................................................... 29
Wrap up: “In the Jungle” Blackline Master.................................................. 30
Crocs & Gators: Self-assessment Blackline Master...................................... 31
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At-a-Glance
Crocs & Gators
GENRE
Assessment
Strategies
FOCUS WORDS
Never Smile at
a Crocodile ...
Poster
• Activating prior
knowledge
crocodile
Good Morning,
Mr Croco-doco-dile
Join-in: poem
• Writing dialogue
• Identifying rhyme
patterns
good morning, claw, snout,
jaw, eye
Croc Talk and Gator
Gab
Report
• Sorting ideas using
graphic organisers
• Identifying syllables
crocodiles, alligators, teeth,
snout, jaw
Alligator Attacks
Tourists!
Report/
Recount
• Revising and editing
letters
• Noticing words
snap, click
The Crocodile Hunter
Biography
• Writing sentences
reptile, crocodile, hunter, zoo
Monkey & Crocodile
Graphic story
• Building sentences
• Recognising verb
endings
monkey, fruits, greedy brother
In the Jungle
Wrap up
• Labelling
jungle
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Preparing to Read Crocs & Gators
Crocs & Gators (Levels 13–18) explores the appearance, habitat, and behaviour of alligators and crocodiles.
Never Smile at a Crocodile (Student Book, page 4)
Begin exploring the theme by talking about the poster. Discuss with the children
why they think someone should “never smile at a crocodile”.
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Good Morning, Mr Croco-doco-dile
(Student Book, page 6)
Preparing to Read the Text
A Conversation about the Selection
Ask the children what they might say to a crocodile if they had a chance to talk
to one. What questions might they ask? What stories might they tell the
crocodile? Brainstorm a list of animals who might say, “Good morning,
Mr Croco-doco-dile.”
• Asking questions
Moving into the Selection
The poem “Good Morning, Mr Croco-doco-dile” offers the children some
invented language by rhyming the syllable “doco” in a variety of ways (e.g. doco/
smoco/woco). Play a game with the children where they add different consonant
sounds to “doco”. To begin, the children can suggest using the beginning
consonants of their first or last names (e.g. Larry/loco). Some children’s names
might have a diphthong consonant combination and these can be offered
(e.g. Gwen/gwoco).
Invitation to the Reader
Introduce the selection by telling the children that this is a rhyming poem that
is a conversation between a crocodile and a bird. Show the first page of the
selection to the children and demonstrate how some syllables are written in large
font. These syllables are nonsense rhymes. The children can practise reading these
syllables aloud. The children can brainstorm nonsense words that rhyme with the
word “doco”. Then, they can practise saying the words “croco-doco-dile,”
“croco-smoco-smile” and “croco-woco”.
(See Notes for Literacy Learning: Student Book, page 48.)
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• Finding signal words
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• Building vocabulary
Reading the Text
• Guiding the reading
Day One: Accessing the Text
Because of the invented language in this poem, the children might need to hear it
read aloud, and participate in shared reading sessions in order to become familiar
with the vocabulary and the rhythm of the poem. Repeated readings out loud will
provide children with easier access to this text.
Read aloud the first verse on page seven. The children are not looking at the text
at this point. Again, read aloud the first verse on page seven. The children follow
in their books by finger pointing as they hear the words. Next, the children can
join in and read the poem along with the teacher.
Repeat the activity, reading each of the lines alternately. The teacher reads the first
line and third, and the children read the second and fourth lines. Repeat the
activity, switching roles.
• Recognising genres
The children can discuss how they know this is a poem. Have them identify the
rhyme pairs in this poem. Record these on a chart.
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The teacher reads the rest of the poem aloud to the children. The children can
discuss the story. Who is talking? What kinds of things is this animal saying to
the crocodile? What happens to the bird?
• Reading independently
The children can work with a partner to mumble read through this poem.
• Identifying text features
Phonics: Making and Breaking Words
Write the word “crocodile” on a chart. The children can identify the number of
syllables in this word. They can join in and clap as they say each syllable.
Repeat this activity with some of the invented words (e.g. croco-TOCO-tail;
croco-HOCO-head).
Day Two: Revisiting the Text
Read the poem aloud to the children. They can follow along pointing to the
words.
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• Guiding the reading
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Focus on the second verse of this poem on page eight. The children can join in
and say some of the words. Use a cloze technique by omitting the last syllable on
the second and fourth lines of the verse (e.g. “to your croc-HOCO- … (head)”
and “As if you’re croc-DOCO … (dead)”).
The activity can be repeated with the children joining in and reading the bold
print words (e.g. TOCO, HOCO, STOCO, DOCO).
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The children read the poem in unison.
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Different children can each be assigned one line of the poem to read.
Repeat the activity, encouraging the children to use different voices. How might
the bird talk to the crocodile (e.g. cheerfully, quietly, nervously)?
The above activities can be repeated by focusing on another verse (or verses).
• Building vocabulary
Phonics: Making and Breaking Words
The children can identify things that the bird notices about the crocodile. Have
them locate the parts of a crocodile’s body that are mentioned (e.g. tail, head, claw,
snout, jaw, eye). List these words on a chart as the children identify them. These
words can be written on cards. The children can arrange the words in
alphabetical order.
Choose one of these words to focus on. Demonstrate how new words are made
by changing the initial consonant. You might wish to use magnetic letters or letter
tiles (tail/pail/sail/rail/nail/fail). As an extension, you might demonstrate other
words with the same vowel pattern (e.g. train, chain, gain, rain).
Name:_ ______________________ Date:_ ___________________
Bird Talk
What is each bird saying? Unscramble the sentences
and write them in the speech bubbles.
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1. Mr Croco-DOCO-dile. Good morning,
2. today? How are you
3. your see I like to Croco-SMOCO-smile.
4. croco-DOCO-dead. You as if you’re seem
5. I see a curious kind of eye. in your gleam
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Rhyming Ladders
Can you add four more words that rhyme to each list?
smile
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