Lesson summary
Students will experiment with creating an imaginative text based on an actual day in their lives. They will create a short narrative around their day and then recreate this day imagining that magic is involved. They will turn these stories into a book of two contrasting tales.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- experiment with using a factual text to inspire an imaginative text
- explore how magic can be used to transform an ordinary day into an extraordinary story.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- communicate key events in their day in a narrative style
- adapt and retell their own story to be a magical story
- create a book to communicate their ideas.
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Lesson details
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- creative thinking
- communication
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:
Year 3 and 4, English
- Students learn to create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts (AC9E3LE05)
- Students learn to create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (AC9E4LE05)
Relevant parts of Year 3 and 4 achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories.
NSW Syllabus outcomes: EN2-CWT-01
General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy
Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia, Sustainability
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Lead students in discussions and book-making activity, and oversee story-writing tasks.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Target 4.6: By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
Resources Required
- Blank paper for making a book
- Drawing materials
- Large stapler for binding the books
- Writing materials
Additional Info
This is an original Cool+ lesson.
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