Verbals on visuals
Teacher Robyn Pollock
| YEAR
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 7-8
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4
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3-4 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Presenting
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Use multimedia verbal and visual features to communicate narrative using effective layout and presentation of a picture book.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Identify important features of verbal and visual language and use them to create a picture book.
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| Thinking Critically
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Identify and discuss ways in which verbal and visual features can be combined for a particular purpose and audience.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Close Reading
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Discuss language, meanings and ideas in a range of picture books.
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| Speaking and listening
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Listen to and interact with others to clarify features of a narrative.
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Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Assessment
Assessment Task
The task is to produce a picture book based on relationships. This will aim to combine verbal and visual features to produce a text for a year 7/8 class. Assessment will involve the identification and use of the illustrations, use of the conventions, the structures and language features of the picture book to target an audience.
assessment (RTF 2KB)
self_assessment (RTF 9KB)
exemplars (RTF 6KB)
Resources
Print
- Picture books - a comprehensive collection from the National Library
and the School Library.
- Big Books - selected titles from Read it Again and Ashton Scholastic.
Reading and sharing poems
- Pope, Jessie. Noise. Waves Anthology.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord. The Brook.
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Ayres, Pam. I Don't Want to go to School Mum
"More of my Poems".
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Campbell, Alistair. Haiku (Waves anthology)
Jones, Gwyneth. (1975) "These Islands" - A Collection of NZ Verse for Young People. Longman Paul.
- Hamilton, Mary C. Ants. Waves anthology.
- MacCaig, Norman. Frogs
- New Directions in N.Z. English - M. C. Houston IBN Books Ltd.
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McQueen, Cilla. Dog Wobble
New and Selected Poems 1978 - 1994, Dunedin: McIndoe 1994
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Koch, Kenneth. The Magnificient Bull
"Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?", Teaching Great Poetry to Children - Random House 1973.
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Tuwhare, Hone. Rain
Jones, Gwyneth. (1975) "These Islands" - A Collection of NZ Verse for Young People. Longman Paul.
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Roger, Laura. Mum
"Laura's Poems" - Godwit 1995.
Picture books
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Lindsay, Elaine Mr Kwok's Kite Ashton Scholastic 1994
Used to highlight use of colour and contrast.
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Keats, Ezra Jack, Maggie and the Pirate Ashton Scholastic 1979
Used to introduce the technique of superimposing.
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Rubinstein, Gillian Each Beach Box press 1998
Used as to highlight the effects of differing font size and use of primary colours.
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Forgetful Fred Golden Press 1985
To illustrate the effects of boxing/framing and superimposing over a frame.
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Baillie, Allan Drac and the Gremlin Puffin 1988
To illustrate the use of simile, alliteration and adjectival descriptors.
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Dodd, Lynley Hairy Maclary's Bone Mallinson Rendel 1997
To highlight the use of rhyme, alliteration, repetition, onomatopoeia.
Poems to innovate
- Exploring the Language of Poetry, Using Great Poetry with Children - Vivien Van Rij (Wellington College of Education)
