Lesson 1 in a four-part series of lessons based on the setting of a text asks students to group books based on their setting and makes connections between the setting of a text and its genre.

4 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

A Place For Setting

This mini-unit explores the concept of ‘setting’ using the text Blueback by Tim Winton. Throughout the unit, students explore different settings in a range of books and make links between setting and genre. In addition, they will work together, using the book Blueback as evidence to map out the setting on butcher’s paper, before looking at how the author uses simile and metaphor to create a scene. Students are then given an opportunity to create their own setting using the same techniques by writing a descriptive paragraph.

Lesson 1 in a four-part series of lessons based on the setting of a text asks students to group books based on their setting and makes connections between the setting of a text and its genre.

4 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

A Place For Setting

This mini-unit explores the concept of ‘setting’ using the text Blueback by Tim Winton. Throughout the unit, students explore different settings in a range of books and make links between setting and genre. In addition, they will work together, using the book Blueback as evidence to map out the setting on butcher’s paper, before looking at how the author uses simile and metaphor to create a scene. Students are then given an opportunity to create their own setting using the same techniques by writing a descriptive paragraph.

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Essential Question/s

How do authors create a sense of place and time in an imaginative text?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and Creative thinking

Lessons

4 Lessons

Lesson 1

Lesson 1 in a four-part series of lessons based on the setting of a text asks students to group books based on their setting and makes connections between the setting of a text and its genre.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

A Place For Setting - Which Story?

Grades: 3-6

Identify the setting of a narrative text and discuss how it influences the story.

Lesson 2

Lesson 2 in a four-part series of lessons based on the setting of a text asks students to use the description of a setting from a text such as ‘Blueback’ by Tim Wnton to create a map of the area. Students use evidence from the text to sketch out a map on butcher’s paper in small groups and use evidence from the text to justify the features of their map.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

A Place For Setting - Mapping Out The Scene

Grades: 3-6

Use description from a text to map out the setting of a story.

Lesson 3

Lesson 3 in a four-part series of lessons based on the setting of a text asks students to use figurative language to describe setting. Students engage in a figurative language scavenger hunt to find similes and metaphors within a text such as ‘Blueback’ by Tim Winton. Students then use a range of images to create their own similes and metaphors in pairs on mini-whiteboards.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

A Place For Setting - Similes and Metaphors

Grades: 3-6

Recognise and create similes and metaphors to enhance descriptive writing.

Lesson 4

Lesson 4 in a four-part series of lessons based on the setting of a text asks students to use figurative language to describe setting in paragraph form. Students use their similes and metaphors from lesson 3 to write a descriptive paragraph about one of the images, before providing feedback in the form of one thing that ‘glows’ and one thing to help their partner ‘grow’.

Lesson
Reading | Writing

A Place For Setting - Describing Your Own Setting

Grades: 3-6

Write a descriptive paragraph that includes figurative language about the setting of a text.

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