Teaching / Learning Activities Resources N3-1A Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features Respond to and compose texts participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions EN3-3A Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies Respond to and compose use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts 5. Exploring visuals and imagery in print Wonder Explore the visuals on the cover of the text and discuss how title placement is used to show cranial deformity. Examine the use of simple lines and colours on the cover. Draw connections to the main character’s wish to be a plain, ordinary child. Explore the one-eyed, Picasso-like illustration on the cover. Draw connections to the artist’s work and the distortion of facial features. Dandelion Explore the use of (dark) colours within illustrations in establishing mood. Discuss how the illustrator has used them to create a of depression and foreboding. Examine the soft and periscopic focus within the illustrations. Discuss how they are used to show isolation and disconnectedness from the real world. Discuss the use of lighting to draw the eye to and focus the reader on visuals (especially the dandelions) in the text. Examine the use of lighting from below to create the menacing ‘face’ of the school. Explore how shadows are used within the illustrations. Discuss how they are used in the on the way to school to ‘follow’ the protagonist and cause him to feel pursued. Examine the use of shadows to add an ‘evil’ quality to the bullies’ faces. Draw similarities to a torch being lit under ones’ face in the dark. Discuss how visual imagery can be used by illustrators to support the author’s characterisation and stereotyping in texts. Texts Wonder Dandelion Visual Stimuli: by Pablo Picasso
Teaching / Learning Activities Resources EN3-4A Draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts use morphemic, visual, syntactic, semantic and phonological strategies, eg recognition of letter patterns of words, when composing texts 9. Identifying spelling conventions in texts Text Set Students identify and list visual words with double letters from the text set to create a word wall. Categorise and expand on word lists with each subsequent text. Extension Set target challenge (eg 50 words per double) and reward through class reward system. Discuss and define the term ‘morphemic’. Create an electronic database of morphemic words and identify their purpose in the texts. Empty charts for inclusion on word wall Smart Notebook (database)
Objective C EN3-7C Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts Respond to and compose texts create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways adapt aspects of print or media texts to create new texts by thinking creatively and imaginatively about character, setting, narrative voice, dialogue and events 3. Thinking creatively and imaginatively about digital texts The Rise of the Guardians - A Cautionary Tail - How to Train Your Dragon In groups, students create a digital text of their own by (either): Changing the gender of the protagonist in one of the texts studied. Writing a sequel to one of the texts studied. Extension Students dramatise narratives and take still shots for inclusion in their digital texts. Students make sound recordings of digital pages and present them to the class. Encourage the use of sound-effects and ‘voices in character’ to heighten stereotyping and characterisation in their own work. 4. Thinking creatively and imaginatively about texts Wonder In groups, students convert text excepts (Jack’s chapters: Ex-Friends, Science & Detention) into a play script for performance. Scripts to include Acts 1-3, scene descriptions, character listings and stage directions. Dandelion Students write a poem entitled ‘Benjamin Brewster’ outlining his life and time at school with the bullies he fears so much. ipads Book Creator / Story Buddy Digital cameras / Costumes and various instruments for sound effects Writing material or word processing program
Teaching / Learning Activities Resources Objective E EN3-9E Recognises, reflects on and assesses their strengths as a learner Respond to and compose texts develop criteria for assessing their own and others' presentations formulate questions for specific purposes, eg to clarify and reflect critically reflect on the effectiveness of their own and others' writing, seeking and responding to feedback 1. Developing criteria for assessing digital texts The Rise of the Guardians - A Cautionary Tail - How to Your Dragon Prior to composing digital texts (gender substitution / sequel - outlined in Objective B), discuss important criterion and jointly construct Feedback Sheet for pair-share. text construction, students use the criteria to provide positive feedback (and ‘future recommendations’) to their reading partners regarding their digital works. 2. Formulating questions to clarify & reflect on texts Wonder - Dandelion Students develop and set a multiple choice test for teacher: ‘Test the Teacher’. Test questions may be set in four Part A - In the Text Part B - About the text Part C - Author’s Tools Part D - Illustrator’s Tools 3. Reflecting on text construction and group interaction skills Students reflect on their text construction and group interaction skills when producing their electronic book using the following scaffold: REFLECTION SHEET TEXT CONSTRUCTION & GROUP WORK Student’s digital Gender substitution Sequel & Feedback sheet multiple choice test Worksheet: (Reflection Sheet) Text Construction & Group Work