understand text, predicting, and phrases that represent the human experience. and self-correcting Suggested examples of [picture books] connected with human experiences: The will to survive Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian – ‘Half ENLS6-11 explores texts that express a range Genocide’ by Icy Smith of ideas, values, points of view and attitudes The struggle with adversity Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel – ‘Emmanuel’s Students: Ofosu Yeboah’ by Laurie Ann Thompson and Sean Qualls recognise that texts can explore Feelings of caution/fear Name Was Hussein’ by Hristo Kyuchukov – ‘My issues relating to our world The desire to believe/have faith Freedom Box’ by Ellen Levine – ‘Henry’s engage with different on The pursuit of dreams School’ by Lita Judge – ‘Flight personal, social and world issues Seeking to define and understand one’s identity The Punk’ by Jessica – Caroll The urge to understand and seek truth Stamp Collector’ by Jennifer – ‘The Lanthier The desire to be treated with respect and dignity have the Right to be a Child’ – ‘I by Aurelia Fonty Curiosity Star of the Sea’ by Marie-Louise Gay – ‘Stella, The urge to express yourself, physically, intellectually, spiritually and emotionally Nate’ by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley – ‘Ballerino The pursuit of happiness Little Refugee’ by Anh Do – ‘The ES12-2 identifies, uses and assesses Exploring the rubric strategies to comprehend increasingly As a class, read the Texts and Human Experiences rubric. complex and sustained written, spoken, Students highlight key and phrases (eg ‘representation’, ‘illuminated’, visual, multimodal and digital texts that have qualities’, etc) and unfamiliar vocabulary (eg ‘human ‘anomalies’, ‘paradoxes’, been composed for different purposes and etc) ‘assumptions’, ‘repertoire’ contexts Students: Students may create a word wall in the classroom of all new vocabulary/technical draw on support resources as language. needed to clarify or confirm word meanings Differentiation: Read the rubric aloud, project it onto a screen or whiteboard
understand text, predicting, and self-correcting ENLS6-11 explores texts that express a range of ideas, values, points of view and attitudes Students: recognise that texts can explore issues relating to our world engage with different on personal, social and world issues and phrases that represent the human experience. Suggested examples of [picture books] connected with human experiences: The will to survive – ‘Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide’ by Icy Smith The struggle with adversity – ‘Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’ by Laurie Ann Thompson and Sean Qualls Feelings of caution/fear – ‘My Name Was Hussein’ by Hristo Kyuchukov The desire to believe/have faith – ‘Henry’s Freedom Box’ by Ellen Levine The pursuit of dreams – ‘Flight School’ by Lita Judge Seeking to define and understand one’s identity – The Punk’ by Jessica Caroll The urge to understand and seek truth – ‘The Stamp Collector’ by Jennifer Lanthier The desire to be treated with respect and dignity – ‘I have the Right to be a Child’ by Aurelia Fonty Curiosity – ‘Stella, Star of the Sea’ by Marie-Louise Gay The urge to express yourself, physically, intellectually, spiritually and emotionally – ‘Ballerino Nate’ by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley The pursuit of happiness – ‘The Little Refugee’ by Anh Do ES12-2 identifies, uses and assesses strategies to comprehend increasingly complex and sustained written, spoken, visual, multimodal and digital texts that have been composed for different purposes and contexts Students: draw on support resources as needed to clarify or confirm word meanings Exploring the rubric As a class, read the Texts and Human Experiences rubric. Students highlight key and phrases (eg ‘representation’, ‘illuminated’, ‘human qualities’, etc) and unfamiliar vocabulary (eg ‘anomalies’, ‘paradoxes’, ‘assumptions’, ‘repertoire’ etc) Students may create a word wall in the classroom of all new vocabulary/technical language. Differentiation: Read the rubric aloud, project it onto a screen or whiteboard
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