Learning Experience 12: Visuals enhancing meaning (30 minutes)
Learning Objectives
WC5: Use visual features to enhance and clarify meaning and express and extend ideas and information, e.g. flow charts, cross sections.
Classroom Organisation
Learning Experiences
Assessment
Learning Objectives
WC5: Use visual features to enhance and clarify meaning and express and extend ideas and information, e.g. flow charts, cross sections.
Classroom Organisation
- Students are to sit on the mat in front of the teachers chair.
- Whole class discussion on impact visuals have on the meaning behind a text.
Learning Experiences
- The teacher is to go through Tucker by Ian Abdulla and talk about the paintings that depict the events in the story.
- Show students the image of the mother and children and ask if it portrays a more advanced meaning.
- How do they feel when they look at the image? Would they feel the same if it was just the text?
Assessment
- Students are to post their ideas and thoughts on the Class Blog and share ideas as to whether or not Ian Abdulla's visual images in Tucker enhanced the overall meaning behind the story.