A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books, poetry and visual literacy. This lesson uses the Classic Poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar and invites students to create their own found poem using keywords or phrases.

7 Lessons

Grade: 5-6

Bushfire Literary Texts

This unit explores Bushfires through literary texts. It creates opportunities for students to practise skills such as summarising, making connections, analysing illustrations and authors' choice of language. Students will engage in deep discussions and group work tasks, and be encouraged to think in ways that are imaginative, creative and critical. This unit incorporates writing, science and geography skills and allows students to communicate and present their understanding and knowledge in a variety of engaging ways. These lessons can also be completed as stand-alone lessons and with another text of choice. Note - be sensitive to the possibility that students, their family or friends, may have experienced bushfire events, some with tragic consequences.

A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books, poetry and visual literacy. This lesson uses the Classic Poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar and invites students to create their own found poem using keywords or phrases.

7 Lessons

Grade: 5-6

Bushfire Literary Texts

This unit explores Bushfires through literary texts. It creates opportunities for students to practise skills such as summarising, making connections, analysing illustrations and authors' choice of language. Students will engage in deep discussions and group work tasks, and be encouraged to think in ways that are imaginative, creative and critical. This unit incorporates writing, science and geography skills and allows students to communicate and present their understanding and knowledge in a variety of engaging ways. These lessons can also be completed as stand-alone lessons and with another text of choice. Note - be sensitive to the possibility that students, their family or friends, may have experienced bushfire events, some with tragic consequences.

Essential Question/s

How do literary texts teach us about the causes, effects and impacts of bushfires?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Personal and Social Capability
Critical and Creative thinking

Lessons

7 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books, poetry and visual literacy. This lesson uses the Classic Poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar and invites students to create their own found poem using keywords or phrases.

Lesson
Reading

Bushfire Literary Texts - Found Poem

Grades: 5-6

Create a Found Poem.

Lesson 2

A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books and visual literacy. This lesson uses the book ‘Fire’ by Jackie French and students will learn to summarise the main ideas in the form of a listicle.

Lesson
Writing

Bushfire Literary Texts - Listicle Summary

Grades: 5-6

Create a summary in the form of a listicle.

Lesson 3

A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books and visual literacy. This lesson explores the rich, poetic language of the book ‘Fire’ by Jackie French.

Lesson
Writing

Bushfire Literary Texts - Literary Devices

Grades: 5-6

Identify and analyse effective language features and imagery in texts, and creatively reinterpret them.

Lesson 4

Fun reading activities using ‘Fire’ by Jackie French to teach year 5 students skills in comprehension and visualising. This lesson explores the rich literary devices used in the text and creates the opportunity for students to create an artwork.

Lesson
Reading

Bushfire Literary Texts - Bushfire Artwork

Grades: 5-6

Create an artwork in response to, ‘Fire’’ by Jackie French.

Lesson 5

A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books and visual literacy.c

Lesson
Writing

Bushfire Literary Texts - Phrase, Word, Image

Grades: 5-6

Connect to the main idea and the language of a text particularly focusing on effective words and phrases.

Lesson 6

A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books and visual literacy. This lesson explores telling stories from different perspectives.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

Bushfire Literary Texts - Perspectives

Grades: 5-6

Identify alternative points of views to the main character in a text.

Lesson 7

A fun reading lesson for grades 5 and 6 students that explores bushfires through picture books and visual literacy.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

Bushfire Literary Texts - Impacts

Grades: 5-6

Research and explain the human and environmental impacts of bushfires.

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