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SPECIFIC LESSON
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ASSESSMENT
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Authors and Illustrators

ACELT1605
Create a mind map in a
group demonstrating
conventions and techniques
used while composing fairy
tales
Utilise ICT to communicate
and share ideas among a
group of people

2:30pm
13/03/15

20/03/15

MORNING SESSION

Assessing
students
interpretation
and
understanding
of how authors
construct fairy
tales
Assessing
students ability
to work
together
Observation
checklist
Teacher will be
able to view
students mind
maps via
Dropbox

LEARNING EXPERIENCE including PROVISIONS FOR LEARNER DIVERSITY and KEY

QUESTIONS

Learning experience:
Introduce lesson and showcase the motivation video found on the homepage
Highlight the introduction page which shows the memory jogging video
Explain first task, allow students a brief period of time to complete the readings and mind
map
Run through Dropbox set up and show the video used to demonstrate Dropbox account
set up
Conclude lesson, recapping what was done and what will be done in the upcoming lesson.
Provisions for Learner Diversity:
Students will be provided with open ended tasks aligned with Blooms Taxonomy allowing
students to explore various avenues of work
Students are to be grouped in heterogeneous groups to encourage peer learning and
support each other through the tasks
Relevant hardware and software made available for students who have disabilities
Key questions:
How do authors make setting interesting to readers? Do the illustrations help the author
do this?
Think about why a certain event in a story may be important. How do we tell which scenes
are key to a story?
Why is it important to think about the way fairy tales are written? Do you think this will help
us think about the way other stories are written?
Why do you think certain events in the story made you feel or see things in a certain way?
I want you to think about the way the illustrations were drawn and words were used.

RESOURCES

The fantastic
Flying Books
of Mr. Morris
Lessmore
Examining
Literature
Weebly site
Bubbl.us/Spi
derScribe
Dropbox.co
m
How to set
up a
Dropbox
account
Jana Bolton
(Youtube
video)

2:30pm
20/03/15

Characters
ACELT1605
Create a mind map
independently describing a
character, its appearance
and attributes. Making it 3D.
Write a characters
introduction into a story
using descriptive language.

MORNING SESSION

Assessing
students use
of descriptive
language
Assessing
students
capability on
ICT (Mind map,
Word)
Assessing
students
literacy and
grammar.

Learning experience:
Introduce lesson, linking back to fairy tales and what makes them engaging (as covered
in lesson one). Go on to explain how crucial 3D characters are, and how they can also
engage readers throughout stories.
Explain first task, and monitor their creation of characters. Give the students a brief
period to complete this task.
Flow into next task, explaining and guiding students by showing examples and giving
them a checklist of what they need to look at in order to complete this.
Once they have all completed this explain the next task. Show the students the
teachers example. Once they have given theirs a go, teacher makes sure that each
student is visited and given extra help. Push descriptive language.
Once all done and teacher happy with these, explain to the students that they need to
upload these onto their drop box account. Do a quick recap on how to do this.
Provisions for learner diversity:
Students who have trouble using ICT will be seated at the front of the class
Appropriate ICT and hardware will be available for students who have trouble navigating
through the topics and tasks.
Key questions:
How do authors create interesting characters?
What is a three dimensional character?
What do authors need to think about when creating characters?
Why is it so important to use descriptive language

Examining
Literature
Weebly site
Bubbl.us/Spi
derScribe
Dropbox.co
m
Microsoft
word
Createyouro
wnwildself.co
m

2:30pm
27/03/15

Plot
ACELT1605 (Elaboration ii)
Identify key events in a fairy
tale narrative and justify why
these events are pivotal in
the narrative
Explain how and why
authors and illustrators
make readers care about
the key events in a story
using a shared Google
document

MORNING SESSION

Students
identification of
key points will
be assessed
through
anecdotal
jottings and
overseen
through Google
Docs made
available
through the
share function
The process
the students
will be used
shall be
assessed via
anecdotal
jottings
The product of
students
labours is to be
assessed
through
marking via the
shared
Dropbox
account

Learning experience:
Introduce lesson, linking back to the previous lesson - how authors and illustrators use the
plot to create a sense of emotion in the reader.
Discuss the beginning, middle and ending of a plot, and what elements are used during
these sections of the story.
Mention that the basis of all stories is the plot, which is the foundation everything rests
upon
Ask the students to navigate https://edpuzzle.com/home
Students will create a student account
Teacher to share the link to the video clip/multiple choice quiz.
Students to take note (Microsoft Word Document) of correct answers in the multiple choice
quiz.
Students to transfer their notes into a https://bubbl.us mindmap
Teacher to help students with exporting their https://bubbl.us mindmap
Students to save a copy of their https://bubbl.us mindmap in their already created dropbox
folder, and share a link with the teacher.
Provisions for Learner Diversity:
Teacher to provide a fairy tale childrens book and work closely alongside lower achieving
learners in teaching about the pivotal points in the plot (i.e. beginning, middle, end).
Higher achieving students to find a youtube.com fairy tale and follow same procedure
(identifying the beginning, middle and end points of a story).
Key Questions
What kind of plot structure do you think your favourite fairy tale uses?
Do you think fairy tales all use a similar plot type? What does this plot type look like?
How do you think you would structure the plot of your own fairy tale? Would there be a
happy ending?
Why do you think plot is an important part of a story? Is this the case for fairy tales? If not,
how come you dont think so?

Edpuzzle.com
https://bubbl.us

Your turn
ACELT1605
Create their own fairy tale,
quite vague but including a
beginning, middle and end.
Actively use ICT (such as
photo story) to portray the
events within their story
Work individually to create
these, no help from peers.

2:30pm
03/04/15

MORNING SESSION

Assessing
students use
of ICT that may
not have been
used before.
Such as
photostory
Assessing
students
knowledge in
searching for
free images
Assessing
students
creativity, and
how well they
can apply
these into
writing
Assessing
students ability
to store
information
covered in
previous
lessons and
apply it to
current

Learning experience:
Introduce lesson, explain to students that everything covered in previous lessons are
going to be applied into this one. Do a quick recap of what has been covered.
Ask the students to navigate back to ExaminingLiterature.Weebly.com and paraphrase
the tasks to them, guiding the students through what will be covered and explaining
what the teacher will be looking for within their stories.
Navigate the student onto Microsoft word, explain that they are to write a short story
which takes their character through a small problem.
Teach the students (who do not already know) how to search for free images, and tell
them to be creative with background images and setting.
Then get students to implement this onto photostory, teacher will give example up on
projector teaching the students how to upload images and showing exactly what is
expected. (very simple, just background images and character images with the writing
from word portraying the story)
Guide students through uploading this onto their dropbox account and sharing this with
the teacher. Then conclude the lesson.
Provisions for Learner Diversity:
Heterogeneous pairing (consistent with the previous weeks) allowing students to peer
learn
The provision of open ended tasks to give students at all stages of the learning
spectrum opportunities to meaningfully engage in the task. The students can write at
their own level and however much they are capable of. There will be no set limit for the
whole class, teacher will just judge on whether or not the student has actively
contributed to the lesson, and done it to the best of their ability.
Key Questions:
What will you be focusing on when writing your own story?
What pattern do you need to follow to make sure your story fits into the theme of fairy
tales?
How many negative events should your character go through in a short story? Why?
Should your story end exactly how it begins?

Examining
Literature
Weebly site
Dropbox.com
Microsoft
word
Photo Story