Eng 2
You are going to look at four narratives for younger audiences to identify those strategies.
Two of them, Moon bear rescue and The last tree, are from Unit 7.
2. Re-read the texts Moon bear rescue by Kim Dale and The last tree by Mark Wilson.
3. Read the texts Where the forest meets the sea by Jeannie Baker and Lester and Clyde
by James H. Reece.
All these narrative texts have a theme, main idea or message about sustainability
The authors of these texts use a variety of strategies to engage readers,
inform them about the issue, and persuade readers to accept their ideas.
To engage the reader, authors and illustrators might:
• create characters readers identify with
• create a plot that is interesting
• create beautiful or engaging illustrations
• use descriptive words and language.
To inform the reader, authors and illustrators might:
• use key or technical words and precise vocabulary about the issue
• use bright colours or other visual effects
• use a variety of images
• use simple facts
• use emotional events (to stir readers to take action)
• make connections to readers’ lives to make them think.
To persuade the reader, authors and illustrators might:
• connect readers’ experiences to those of the characters or events
• use a clever combination of words and images to achieve a
particular effect
• use evaluative language to make readers feel a certain way.
q1) Discuss what the author had to say about creating a narrative text.
q2) What structure is needed for a narrative text?
q3) What types of language is needed for Year 4 children? How is this different from a Yr 6 student?
q4) Discuss how images and diagrams can be altered for a younger audience.
q5) What does sustainability mean?
q4) Discuss how images and diagrams can be altered for a younger audience? Colour because little kids like big and coloured images and diagrams that keep them interested.
Discuss how images and diagrams can be altered for a younger audience.
They can be altered into graphs, pictures, labelled text anything that little children will understand.
q4) Discuss how images and diagrams can be altered for a younger audience.
The images could be altered to be colourful and non-violent
The diagrams could be colourful and have basic vocabulary words
2) The author said to us that we need a beginning, middle, ending. For the beginning (introduction) you an interesting sentence to get the reader interested, it needs date, time and setting and of course the main character. The middle needs a problem evolving into more problems and thinking of ways to solve it. The ending needs a solution to solve the problems.
3.What types of language is needed for Year 4 children? How is this different from a Yr 6 student?
1st Q. The language needed hast to be easy to read and imaginary
2nd Q. The language needed can be more complicated and imaginary and will have different words
What does sustainability mean?
Sustainability means that you are not being harmful to the environment or depleting the natural resources of nature.
5) It means living in a way that protects and support all forms of living life on our planet -humans,animals and plants. It also includes valuing and caring for the environment including land,air and water.
q5) What does sustainability mean?
the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
q3) What types of language is needed for Year 4 children? How is this different from a Yr 6 student?
The year four language includes: some language features,simple and intresting.The year six language should definitely include:language features, interesting statements that will entertain the reader.
Q1) Discuss what the author had to say about creating a narrative text.
It should have many colours to get there etenction and they don’t just sit there and get bored
Q2) What structure is needed for a narrative?
1-Exposition 2- Rising Action 3- Climax 4- Falling Action 5- Resoltion
6- The words THE END 😄
Q3) What types of language is needed for Year 4 children? How is this different from a Yr 6 student?
They cannot understand big words cause they won’t get the story line, but we have to use fun word to grab there etenction.
Q4) Discuss how images and diagrams can be altered for a younger audience.
By adding colour so they can look at the picture and be able to see what’s going on
Q5) What does sustainability mean?
Living in. A way that protects and supports all forms of life on on our planet
q1) Discuss what the author had to say about creating a narrative text.
The author said that to write a narrative text you need a beginning,middle,End. You need a main character a setting time place resolution and solution.
4.Discuss how images and diagrams can be altered for a younger audience.
The images can become more simple for different ages and diagrams can be easier to understand
3) The year 4 writing that should be used should be easy to read, interesting in the ways that they can read it and emotional so they understand where the story is going. This is different to year 6 work because…….
q5) What does sustainability mean?
Living in a way that protects and supports all sorts of life on our planet – humans, animals,plants.
Valuing and caring for the environment encluring land, air and water