Aspects of Texts - Working together to illustrate and idea

This resource is designed to be used after your class has studied a text, or a student has conducted their own study on a text.  Students choose TWO aspects of their texts and show how those aspects illustrate a main idea.  It can be used to show understanding of any text type (genre).
 
Students are scaffolded through:
Describing each aspect and their own engagement with each.
Explaining how their two chosen aspects work together for added impact.
Discussing how the combination of aspects helps us understand at least two of the following: creator purpose, human behaviours, tikanga Māori and/or our past/present/future.
 
This resource will be particularly helpful for New Zealand teachers preparing for the externally assessed NCEA achievement standard 1.3 Demonstrate understanding of specific aspects of studied text (91925)
 
This resource includes:
⭐ A student reference (preparation) booklet. This includes:
Checkpoints to help with time-management
An explanation of what students must do
An activity to help students think of an idea from Little Red Riding Hood, and then consider which aspects illustrate this idea. (A humourous adaptation is included.)
An activity to help students describe two aspects from Little Red Riding Hood and their engagement with each.
An example of how two aspects from Little Red Riding Hood work together to illustrate an idea.
A checklist to help students ensure they do as well as possible.
⭐ An assignment booklet where students complete a template to show their understanding. This includes:
An infographic to help students consider possible aspects of their text.
A template to brainstorm aspects that illustrate an idea from their text (students then choose two of these).
A pre-formatted template to scaffold students through describing, explaining and discussing. Activities are broken into Achieved, Merit and Excellence level parts. This makes it easy for students to see where they're heading, and it's easier for you to mark also!
A checklist for students to ensure they've done all they can.
⭐ An assignment booklet where students write an essay/report to show their understanding. This includes:
An infographic to help students consider possible aspects of their text.
A template to brainstorm aspects that illustrate an idea from their text (students then choose two of these).
A suggested structure with room to plan against this.
Room to write.
A checklist for students to ensure they've done all they can.
⭐ An slideshow presentation for teachers to walk students through the activity.
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ Having a completely editable product. This means you can tweak things to suit your own needs and students can type straight into it if you're sharing booklets with them digitally.
❤️ A bit of humour.
❤️ Helpful things like checkpoints, checklists, scaffolding and an example.
❤️ The differentiation in this resource with three levels, beginning with describing, moving on to explaining, then pushing for more complex thinking through discussion. (This is also helpful for grading!)
 
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page (except for the slideshow of course). This means your resource:
Is completely editable.
Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
Is printable 📃
🖥️ PDF versions of each of the three booklets and the teacher's slideshow too.
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