This comprehensive unit helps students examine characters’ settings and plot in texts. The unit contains a presentation, student reference cards, activities, worksheets, and a quiz. At the completion of the unit, an assessment has been included to monitor student understanding.
discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts