Activity 1: Understanding the Message

Target audience

  • Cycle 3

Duration

  • 30 minutes

Text

  • Message from the Old Man

Type of text

  • Story

Pedagogical objective

  • To become aware of the fragility of Aboriginal languages and the impact of the language on a community’s culture.

Specific objective based on Progression of learning

  • To identify characteristics of stories with verbal interactions.

Teaching avenues

  • Before reading, draw attention to the format of the text and its characteristics.
  • While reading, create an understanding of how quotation marks show who is speaking.
  • After reading:
    • As a group, take excerpts that have quotation marks and name the person who is speaking.
    • Do the activity.

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Activity 2: The Essential

Target audience

  • Cycle 3

Duration

  • 30 minutes

Text

  • Rays of Sun Inn

Type of text

  • Story

Pedagogical objective

  • To use basic reading strategies: to ask the questions who, what, why, where, when…

Specific objective based on Progression of learning

  • To group together elements of information dispersed throughout the story.

Teaching avenues

  • Before reading, present the strategy of adjusting comprehension while reading.
  • While reading, encourage students to write down important information that answers the questions who, what…
  • After reading:
    • As a group, make a map of the elements of the story.
    • Do the activity.

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