Strategies

Purpose

PhaseOneBuildingKnowledgeoftheField
StrategyOnePictureWalk
Imagesreflectingdroughts.

Toinciteinterestandengagement.

StrategyTwoPictureWalkPairShare
Inquiryquestions:
Describewhatyousee.
Whydoyouthinkthisimagewasmade?
Whodoyouthinkisthetargetaudience?

Toactivatestudentspriorknowledge.

StrategyThreeWordWall
Wordswithsimilaronsetsandrimeswillbeexplicitlygroupedtogether.

Todevelopstudentwholetopartphonicunderstanding(Hill2013,p.
198).

StrategyFourPairShareCreate
Focusactivities:
Writeacaptionfortheimage.
Predictwhatwillhappentenminutesafterthesceneintheimage.

Makingmeaningfulconnectionstothetext.
Tobeusedasadiagnostictooltogaugetextualknowledgeand
understanding.

StrategyFiveSharedReading
WaterWitcher,byJanOrmerod.
Inquiryquestions(usingReciprocalReadingStrategies):
Whatdoesthisstoryremindyouof?
Whosepointofviewisthisstoryfrom/whoseismissing?
Whatpicturesdidyouhaveinyourheadduringthebook?
Whatmessagedoyouthinktheauthorwantsustoget?
Whatwouldyoutellanotherpersonaboutthetext?

Todevelopknowledgeandunderstandingoftextstructureandorganization;
buildonthefamiliar;howthepurposeoftextsmayvary(ACARA2015,
ACELA1504);introducenewvocabulary(Hill2013,p.298);print
conventions(Hill2013,p.83)andbuildlisteningcomprehension
(Schickedanz&McGee2010).

PhaseTwoModelingtheGenre

StrategyOneGenreComparison
Comparisonsaredrawnbetween:
socialpurpose;field,tenor,mode;verbs/processes;noun
groups/participants;numberofpersonalpronouns

Tocomparelanguagefeaturesofanarrativetoadescriptivereport

StrategyTwoAnalysingPlotStructure
Storymapskeletonsarefilledinasaclass,andcomparedwithdiffering
plotstructuresfromotherbooks

Tounderstandhoworientation,complicationandresolutioncanbe
manipulatedtosuitthepurposeandstyleofthestory

StrategyThreeAnalysingSetting
UsinganexcerptfromWaterWitcher
Inquiryquestions:
Whereandwhendoesthestorytakeplace?
Howdoweknowthat?
Whichwords,phrases,sentencesgiveyoucluesaboutthesetting?

Todeterminehowadjectivesandnoungroupsareusedtodescribethe
settingthroughimagery

StrategyFourCharacterisationRolePlaying
StudentstakeontheroleofvariouscharactersinWaterWitcher
describingtheirqualitiesandpersonalitytotherestoftheclass
Theclassasksthecharacterwhattheythinkandfeelaboutdifferent
eventsinthestory
StrategyFivePointofView
Twostudentssilentlyactoutascenewhiletheotherstudentswatch
Theclassjointlyconstructsbriefnarrativesfromeachactorspointofview

Tounderstandthatcharactersinastorymusthavequalitiesthatresemble
peopleinreallifeinordertobebelievableandinteresting

Tohighlightthattheperspectivefromwhichastoryistoldcanchangethe

PhaseThreeJointConstruction
StrategyOneSharedReading
Readthepicturebook,TheLostGirlbyAmbelinKwaymullina.
Discussnarrativeplotstructureandwhetherthetextfollowsatypical
convention.

Consolidateunderstandingofnarrativesequencing(MacDonald2013,pp.
7375).

StrategyTwoResolutionReconstruction
Consideralternativenarrativeendings

Torecognizethedifferentstructuresanarrativecanfollow.

StrategyThreeFindingCongruence
Discusshowsettingcanbedevelopedthroughlanguageandillustration
(McDonald2013,p.160).
Consider:
Howhastheauthorusedillustrationstocreateorenhancethesetting?
Doesthesettingaffecttheeventsoftheplot?

Understandtheimportanceofillustrationsandhowtheyhelpdevelopa
settingandtellastory.

StrategyFourCharacterDevelopmentThroughNounGroups
Discussunderstandingofprotagonists,antagonistandfocalisercharactersin
narratives.
Developandchangenoungroupstoimprovecharacterizationand
description.

Acquireknowledgeoffunctionallanguageinrelationtocharacter
development(McDonald2013,p.97).

StageFourIndependentConstruction
StrategyOneGroupTextAnalysis
Groupstoreadandanalyse,DroughtbyTriciaOktober,focusingonplot
structure,settingorcharacterization.
StrategyTwoPlanningPresentation
Studentstobecomeexpertsabouttheirtopicofanalysis.
Groupscreateapresentationillustratingnarrativeconventions,througha
modalityoftheirchoice.
GroupsreportanalysistoclassinformoforalpresentationattheNarrative
Expo(McDonald,2013).
StrategyThreeConferencing

Applyingtheknowledgeobtainedthroughouttheunittoshowtheirskillsin
beingindependentcriticalanalysersoftext

Allowsstudentstodevelopcollaborativeandcooperationskills,
communicatingtheirlearningthroughoralmeans.

Teacherconducts510minutesconferencewithgroups.
StrategyFourOpenForum
Eachgrouptodevisetwoopenquestionstoaskthepresentinggroup.

Todetermineindividualunderstandingsofthekeyconceptspresentedby
theirgroup.
Ensuresactiveparticipationandretentionofinformation.