Objectives Learning Outcomes Interpersonal Listening and Speaking Discuss and interact in small groups, listening and responding to the ideas of others. Close Reading Respond to meaning and ideas in school journals. Students will develop understandings that visual and verbal texts work together to produce particular meanings and effects. Students discuss and compare the graphic and visual features of the covers of the older journals with the more recent issues. Students select two journals, predict themes and items to be found in the journal.
Students use a comparison map to record their findings.
Share ideas with another group. Provide the students with The Journal Study to record their ideas. Students read the texts and compare the information in the text with information in the illustration. Record ideas using a Venn diagram . Teacher modelling Select a piece of fiction or nonfiction text for shared reading .