Exploring Settings
This worksheet helps middle primary students explore how settings influence mood and events in narratives. Using excerpts from Blueback, students analyse descriptive language, discuss its impact, and create their own setting. Activities include reading, discussion, drawing, and writing to deepen understanding of how settings shape stories and themes.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to describe the settings in texts and character traits using descriptive adjectives that influence the mood of the narrative.
- We are learning to discuss literary experiences with others, share responses and express a point of view using metalanguage to describe the effects of texts, text structures and language features.
- We are learning to describe the settings in texts and character traits using descriptive adjectives that influence the mood of the narrative.
- We are learning to discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view.
- We are learning to use metalanguage to describe the effects of texts, text structures and language features of texts.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E3LE03
9
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
AC9E4LE02
9
describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions
ACELT1599
8.4
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
ACELT1603 8.4 Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view ACELT1604 8.4 Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
EN2-8B
old
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
EN2-10C
old
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
EN2-4A
old
Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies
EN2-OLC-01
new
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
EN2-UARL-01
new
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
EN2-RECOM-01
new
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
VCELT253
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
VCELT306
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view
VCELT283
Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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Write an additional paragraph imagining how the bay would look during a storm or at sunset.
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