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.
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
describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions
Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
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
Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue
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
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
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
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
Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
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
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
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
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts
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
Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view
Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining