Lesson

1: IMAGES
Inquiry Question: How do images contribute to our understanding and what features make them interesting?
Learning Intention: (Taken from achievement standards/Learning Progressions):
Students understand how images influence interpretations of characters, settings and events.

Receptive: COMPREHENDING Productive: COMPOSING
Success Criteria:
I can articulate my understanding of the importance of I can write examples of how images contribute to our understanding
images and how they contribute to making meaning of of text
text

Gradual Release of Responsibility Model- Teaching Strategies:
Familiarising Modelling Sharing Guiding Working Independently
To engage students in the Read the picture book, Give each child a picture Read through the different Children complete this
topic have a variety of The Rabbits by Marsden book. responses and discuss. activity independently.
picture books on display. & Tan. Ask them to find their Those that need support
favourite image in the Guide the students to set may either write or draw
Explain the unit, Learning What were you looking at book; write three out a page titled Images. their responses where
Intention and success when I was reading? reasons why this is their Divide the page into 4 possible.
Criteria. (images) favourite image and sections and write one
share their reasons with reason in each that
Resource 1: Word Wall Why were you looking at a partner. contributes to a good
explain its purpose and the images? image and Illustrate.
how it will be used Resource 2: Display the
throughout the unit Do you think the book image from The Rabbits
(vocabulary development) would be as interesting Give out two post its to
without the images? each student. Ask them
Discuss understanding Why/Why not? to write two reasons that
and purpose of picture make this image
books. Discuss how images help appealing and place them
us make meaning of the on a class poster. E.g.
What is a picture book? text. For example;
understanding characters
What is your favourite and setting.
picture book? / Why?


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