Rigorous Reading In-Depth Guides for Great Literature
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Rigorous Reading In-Depth Guides for Great Literature Maximise your students’ reading experience by providing activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements. TCR7897 TCR4858 Activities for each section allow students TCR7873 TCR7880 to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading. Suggestions for maintaining Interactive Novel Logs provide students with additional ways to re ect and connect personally with the novel. Students have the opportunity to synthesise their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities. $24.95 TCR4865 TCR4926 TCR4841 TCR4896 each TCR4940 TCR4919 TCR4872 TCR4889 TCR4902 TCR4933 Rigorous Reading: Literature $29.95 Activities Teens An In-Depth Guide for Any Novel each Actually Love 9781760564452 Student activities feature text-dependent Instead of asking literature to questions that encourage close analysis meet the recreational, cultural and of course educational and call for evidence to support claims. needs of today’s youth, This resource also includes suggestions Literature Activities Teens for creating and maintaining Interactive Actually Love empowers teachers to help students work Novel Logs to provide students with a with literature on their own place to connect with the literature in terms in order to rediscover the joys it holds. Through a ways of their choosing. Pre- and Post- variety of innovative and highly Reading activities are included as well engaging projects, this book as suggestions for pairing texts to will develop a new lens through which to view literature and its study, showing students that literature can entertain even as it expand the understanding of themes cultivates their higher-order thinking skills. TCR4827 TCR4834 and topics. PRU4452 • $21.95 Search books on www.hbe.com.au and Scan and email pricelist to [email protected] click book image for sample pages to purchase books. A LITERATURE UNIT: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON is the ideal resource for Australian Curriculum-aligned English instruction, combining fun activities with detailed literature $25.95 instruction. The unit is based on the popular children’s novel by each Cressida Cowell, which follows the adventures of a hopeless Viking boy who becomes a hero through extraordinary dragon-training feats. While Cowell’s funny and thrilling story will appeal to the most reluctant of readers, students who complete the literature unit as they read will build fundamental skills in reading, writing, listening and critical thinking. This literature unit consists of two parts: a teacher guide, and an accompanying HB3912 • $25.95 student workbook (available separately). It is divided into ten sections, allowing one for each week of the school term. The guide includes instructions on using the Activities in this literature literature unit, spelling and vocabulary lists and three fun and engaging activities unit include: for each section. Further, it describes the way in which A Literature Unit: How to • Possessive Train Your Dragon covers almost all of the aspects of Language, Literature and apostrophes Literacy strands from the Australian Curriculum: English for Years 4–6. • Viking brainstorm • Create a new language • Book and movie Activity 3.1 – Sleepy Time Activity 8.1 – How Might it End? Activity 4.2 – Create a New Language Activity 7.1 – Possessive Apostrophes The dragonscomparison in How o ain o agon hibernate. Do some online research Hiccup has just been dropped into the Sea Dragon’s mouth. What do you think will Go to www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com/funstuff and see the scroll menu on of three animals that also hibernate and document your findings. Write notes happen next? Discuss as a class what makes a good ending to a story, and then write Possessive apostrophes are used to show that something or someone owns something. the left side of the screen. , Dragonese Day and, after clicking Download by section about their hibernation habits below. your own ending to the book in the space below. • First, go to . • How might it end? 1. When one thing or one person owns something, add an apostrophe to the end of the owner Section 3: How to Speak Dragonese • Consider other things happening in the story and how they might be resolved. select the download for and add an ’s’. Learn to Write Dragonese at the bottom of Animal: Animal: • Is the ending a surprise one? Try to avoid a really big twist, as it will confuse For example: • Select the activity called the scroll menu. Have a quick play around with this. readers. Stoick’s beard (Who owns the beard? Stoick) Length of hibernation: Length of hibernation: • Have you kept the story going longer than it needs to? Try cutting the last line the dragon’s tail (Who owns the tail? The dragon) Now go to www.managingstan.com/piglatin.html and read about Pig Latin. or paragraph and decide if that improves the ending. Rewrite these phrases to show ownership. Hookfang’s wing In partners, create your own language. Either make up your own words or find a • Try not to make the ending too sudden. a. the wing belonged to Hookfang __________________________________ b. the book belonged to Hiccup way to change English words in the way that Pig Latin does. c. the entrance to the cave __________________________________ • Start by making up words for short, commonly used words like “I”, “and”, d. the clothes belonged to Snotlout __________________________________ “you”. e. the colours of the flag __________________________________ • Don’t make the words too long or hard to pronounce. f. the house belonged to Dogsbreath __________________________________ What does this animal do when it’s What does this animal do when it’s Join another pair of your classmates and teach each other time to hibernate? time to hibernate? 2. When the owner already has an ’s’ at the end of their name, you still need to add an how to speak your new language. apostrophe and another ’s’ to the end of the owner. For example: My new language: Fishlegs’s dragon (Who owns the dragon? Fishlegs) Rewrite these phrases to show ownership. a. the talons belonged to Toothless __________________________________ b. the bag belonged to Ross __________________________________ c. the zip on the dress __________________________________ d. the surface of the glass __________________________________ e. the spikes on the cactus __________________________________ Animal: 3. When there is more than one owner, and the word already ends in ‘s’, the apostrophe Length of hibernation: goes after the ’s’. For example: the dragons’ screams (Who owns the screams? Many dragons). What does this animal do when it’s time to hibernate? Rewrite these phrases to show ownership. __________________________________ a. the weapons belonged to the Vikings __________________________________ b. the tribe belonged to the elders __________________________________ c. the feathers belonged to the birds __________________________________ d. the food belonged to the dragons __________________________________ e. the blades of the knives 15 © 2015 Hawker Brownlow Education • 9781760015220 • HB5220 HB5220 • 9781760015220 • © 2015 Hawker Brownlow Education © 2015 Hawker Brownlow Education • 9781760015220 • HB5220 10 31 HB5220 • 9781760015220 • © 2015 Hawker Brownlow Education 2626 HB5220 • $25.95 A LITERATURE UNIT: SEPTIMUS HEAP: MAGYK Septimus Heap: Magyk is a ten-week Literature Unit comprising a detailed, Australian Curriculum-aligned study guide based on the novel, Septimus Heap: Magyk, written by Angie Sage. The unit covers almost all of the aspects of the three Language, Literature and Literacy strands of the English component of the Australian Curriculum, combining fun activities with detailed literature instruction. Students that complete the Literature Unit as they read will build fundamental skills in reading, writing, listening and critical thinking. The unit is made up of ten sections, one for each week HB5671 • $25.95 of the term. It is suitable for students in Years 4, 5 or 6 and the direct links to the curriculum have been made to these year levels. Search books on www.hbe.com.au and click book image for sample pages Literature Unit: Rowan and the Keeper Literature Unit: Deltora Quest – City of the Crystal of the Rats 978 1 74025 449 X 9781740256700• Caroline Jackson This Literature Unit has been designed to supplement teachers with ideas The lessons in this unit cover getting to know the author and the book, for use with the novel Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal. Designed suggestions for lessons for before the book, as well as, during the book. for upper primary school students, the lesson plans suggest ideas for Includes a variety of useful worksheets to encourage the enjoyment of the ten weeks of whole class study. The lesson plans offer suggestions for book. activities for before reading the book such as setting up and using 3D material linked topics. 6700 • $21.95 6157 • $21.95 Literature Unit: Rowan and the Travellers Literature Unit: Deltora Quest – The 978 1 74025 357 4 Forests of Silence This Literature Unit has been designed to supplement teachers with ideas 9781740253582 • Caroline Jackson for use with the novel Rowan and the Travellers. It is aimed at upper primary school students and the lesson plans suggest ideas for ten weeks This Literature Unit has been designed to supplement teachers with ideas for of class study. The lesson plans offer suggestions for activities for before use with the novel The Forests of Silence by Emily Rodda. The lessons in this reading the book such as setting up and using 3D material linked topics. unit cover getting to know the author and the book, suggestions for lessons for before the book, as well as, during the book. Includes a variety of useful 6124 • $21.95 worksheets to encourage the enjoyment of the book. 6125 • $21.95 Literature Unit: Rowan and the Zebak Literature Unit: Deltora Quest – 978 1 74025 671 9 The Shifting Sands This Literature Unit has been designed to provide teachers with ideas 9781740258681 • Caroline Jackson for use with the novel Rowan and the Zebak by Emily Rodda.