Today Year 3 students watched a You Tube clip that showed and told them how to make a ninja star. Here are some of the interesting things they noticed about this text:

• it was an instructional text – it showed you how to make something
• it was a type of procedure, with steps to follow
• you had to listen to the words as well as watch the pictures
• the video was really helpful to watch as if you couldn’t understand a part you could watch and see what to do next
• the video supported the words, you could watch the video over and over at each part – to see how the narrator was actually moving the papers and making the folds
• the photos inbooks are static (they stay still) the video showed the movements to make with the folding
• the spoken words + the written words + the video worked together to make sure we could actually make our ninja stars!

Here is the clip we watched:

 

 

And here are our finished ninja stars 🙂