multimodal texts – picture books, graphic novels, web pages, films, television programs, performances, advertisements, cartoons, music videos, computer games, maps digital texts – online books, websites, computer games, social networking sites, email, SMS, apps visual texts – photographs, diagrams, charts, graphs, tables, cartoons, pictures texts to support language/dialect acquisition – dictionaries, thesauruses, reading comprehension and writing skills development, vocabulary development, grammar practice and communicative activities texts Suggested text lists Texts are suggested, not prescribed. Suggested text lists can be found at Sample text list The following texts are examples of literary texts suitable for the study of the English as an Additional Language or Dialect ATAR course and are intended to stimulate thinking about teaching resources in relation to the content of the curriculum. The following examples are not meant to be prescriptive. Fiction Blueback by Tim Winton (novel) Walk in My Shoes by Alwyn Evans (novel) The China Coin by Allan Baillie (novel) Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (novel) The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (novel; film directed by Niki Caro) Adaptations of Shakespeare, such as the film of Twelfth Night directed by Trevor Nunn The Black Balloon directed by Elissa Down (film) The River by Libby Hathorn and illustrated by Stanley Wong (picture book) Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (short stories) One Night the Moon directed by Rachel Perkins (film; also see soundtrack) Billy Elliot directed by Stephen Daldry (film) Harvey Krumpet created and directed by Adam Eliot (clay animation) Poetry The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick Oodgeroo Noonuccal At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners: A Multicultural Anthology of Contemporary Poetry edited by Ken Watson Song lyrics Robert Frost
multimodal texts – picture books, graphic novels, web pages, films, television programs, performances, advertisements, cartoons, music videos, computer games, maps digital texts – online books, websites, computer games, social networking sites, email, SMS, apps visual texts – photographs, diagrams, charts, graphs, tables, cartoons, pictures texts to support language/dialect acquisition – dictionaries, thesauruses, reading comprehension and writing skills development, vocabulary development, grammar practice and communicative activities texts Suggested text lists Texts are suggested, not prescribed. Suggested text lists can be found at Sample text list The following texts are examples of literary texts suitable for the study of the English as an Additional Language or Dialect ATAR course and are intended to stimulate thinking about teaching resources in relation to the content of the curriculum. The following examples are not meant to be prescriptive. Fiction Blueback by Tim Winton (novel) Walk in My Shoes by Alwyn Evans (novel) The China Coin by Allan Baillie (novel) Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (novel) The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (novel; film directed by Niki Caro) Adaptations of Shakespeare, such as the film of Twelfth Night directed by Trevor Nunn The Black Balloon directed by Elissa Down (film) The River by Libby Hathorn and illustrated by Stanley Wong (picture book) Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (short stories) One Night the Moon directed by Rachel Perkins (film; also see soundtrack) Billy Elliot directed by Stephen Daldry (film) Harvey Krumpet created and directed by Adam Eliot (clay animation) Poetry The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick Oodgeroo Noonuccal At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners: A Multicultural Anthology of Contemporary Poetry edited by Ken Watson Song lyrics Robert Frost
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