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Blueback - Storyboard

Blueback - Storyboard
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Description

This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set in Longboat Bay, incorporating an environmental challenge and resolution. The worksheet includes planning prompts, a storyboard template, and practical tips, encouraging creativity, storytelling skills, and environmental awareness.

Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9E3LE03 9

Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative

AC9E4LE02 9

describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions

AC9E3LE01 9

Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators

AC9E3LE05 9

Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts

AC9E3LY06 9

Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words

AC9E4LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

ACELT1601 8.4

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle

ACELT1791 8.4

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue

ACELT1599 8.4

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

ACELY1682 8.4

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

ACELY1683 8.4

Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation

ACELY1685 8.4

Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements

ACELT1603 8.4

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

ACELT1594 8.4

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

ACELT1604 8.4

Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts

ACELT1794 8.4

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

ACELT1607 8.4

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

EN2-10C old

Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

EN2-4A old

Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies

EN2-3A old

Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies

EN2-8B old

Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter

EN2-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language

EN2-OLC-01 new

Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting

EN2-UARL-01 new

Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN2-VOCAB-01 new

Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words

EN2-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-02 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-03 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-SPELL-01 new

Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts

EN2-HANDW-02 new

Uses digital technologies to create texts

VCELT253

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

VCELT264

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features

VCELT265

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts

VCELY266

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

VCELY267

Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation

VCELT274

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

VCELY269

Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements

VCELT306

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

VCELT283

Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts

VCELT297

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

VCELT298

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

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