Activities and resources
Your teacher may direct you to use some of the resources below or complete some of the attached activities:
Visualising
Short Stories
The short stories ‘Licked‘ by Paul Jennings and ‘Rain Stones‘ by Jackie French are fantastic for practising visualising. These work best when read aloud.
Visualising Tasks
These visualising tasks strengthen your visualising skills and can be used with a variety of texts.
Connecting
The poem ‘Ice-cream Headache‘ provides opportunities to make many rich connections. The connections that Ms Wooford made when reading this poem are modelled below.
modeling-connecting-ice-cream-headache
Your Task:
Using ‘Ice-cream Headache’ (or another text your teacher direct you towards) create and present a visual representation of the connections you make when reading the text.
You will need to take quotations/sections from the text and create a poster/PicCollage outlining the connecting you make within and beyond the text.
Remember you can make connections to yourself, other texts you have read/viewed and to current/historical world events.
When you finish your poster you will need to present your work in small groups, noting similarities and differencesin the connections you made.
Your final task will be to write a reflection on how your connections were similar/different to those of your peers, and on the role you feel connecting plays in reading and making meaning.
Inferring
Exploring Inference:
The PowerPoint below guides you through using inferring and connecting skills when reading texts.
Inferring and Connecting (PDF)
Practising Inferring:
Applying reading strategies to ‘The Secret Garden’
Applying inference to advertisements:
Pepsi Commercial
- Does the king like the first singer? How can you tell?
- Does the crowd like the second singer (Melanie Amaro)? How do you know?
- Does the king like the second singer? How do you know?
Doritos Commercial
- What did the dog do?
- How do you know the dog did this?
- Why did the dog give the man a bag of chips?
Wide reading
