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      Listed under:  Language  >  Text types  >  Imaginative texts  >  Narratives  >  Plots (Stories)
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      Syllabus bites – responding to literature

      • TLF-IDM016160

      A web page with information, teacher guides and resources on responding to texts. This resource supports the NSW English K-10 syllabus.

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      Design thinking across the curriculum

      • TLF-IDM025436

      This cross-curriculum resource is designed to introduce Stage 2, 3 and 4 students to the design thinking process through a series of videos and interactive activities. This resource is also downloadable as a SCORM file: the downloaded version will only work if you upload it to a webserver, such as Moodle or Canvas.

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      Characterisation stereotypes

      • TLF-IDM025911

      Develop and build engaging characters through stereotypes and using through role play and improvisation using voice, body and dialogue. Perform a devised character scenario to engage an audience.

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      Drop the mic – hip hop and Shakespeare

      • TLF-IDM025941

      A fresh and fun approach to Hip Hop theatre exploring, words, rhythm, movement, voice and creative writing. Drop The Mic Hip Hop Theatre class aims to develop voice, rhythm, physicality and character skills.

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      Lip sync challenge

      • TLF-IDM025925

      Students will develop expressive movement skills to perform a Lip Sync Challenge. They will explore character, rhythm, movement, sound and tension and reflect on their own performance skills.

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      Tune in and tune up

      • TLF-IDM025928

      Tune in and tune up your acting skills with these fun drama warm up games that will strengthen you vocally, physically and imaginatively.

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      Storyline Online: Lotus and feather by Ji-Li Jiang

      • TLF-IDM025713

      A winter illness left Lotus, a little girl, without a voice and without friends. A hunter’s bullet left Feather, a crane, injured and unable to fly. As Lotus nurses Feather back to health, their bond grows. Soon Feather is following Lotus everywhere, even to school! The bird dances to the girl’s reed whistle, much to the ...

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      Puppet Pals HD

      • TLF-IDM013078

      This is a free application for the iPad that focuses on creating plays using a library of eight animated fairytale characters and five background scenes. It features video, audio and a record function, as well as the ability to import background scenes from personal photo libraries, create actors from photos, and save, ...

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      Make ‘em laugh

      • TLF-IDM025935

      See how effective comedy is in communicating ideas and engaging an audience. Good performances will have moments of humour and seriousness in order to provide variety and interest in the stories being told.

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      Join the circus

      • TLF-IDM025949

      Learn about different circus skills and create a short performance.

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      Characterisation – status and movement

      • TLF-IDM025909

      Explore characterisation through observation, status and movement to communicate meaning. Students will create a character through performance.

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      Horton Hears a Who

      • TLF-IDM021434

      This resource for primary school children examines the Dr Seuss picture book classic and the film based on the book. It examines the theme of sustainability. It contains questions and activities on the book and the film, as well as a teacher guide.

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      I like to move it, move it!

      • TLF-IDM025930

      Engage the body to tell stories and entertain audiences. Explore the techniques of expressive physical movement to communicate ideas and create dramatic meaning. Students devise a story using mime, movement and gesture.

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      Lights, camera, action!

      • TLF-IDM025952

      Students explore screenwriting for video drama.

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      Melodrama characterisation

      • TLF-IDM025940

      Discover the dramatic form and acting styles of melodrama through the exploration of stock characters and how to act in a melodrama style with large emotions and gestures. Perform various characters through a scripted performance.

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      Storyline Online: How I learned Geogrpahy by Uri Shulevitz

      • TLF-IDM025718

      Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the map is hung on the wall, it floods their cheerless room with color. As the boy ...

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      Storyline Online: To be a drum by Eveline Coleman

      • TLF-IDM025715

      Daddy Wes whispers to his two young listeners one morning the story of the 'drum', the pulse that has moved through the African people and through time and place. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known US based actors supported by the illustrations. Each book is supplemented with guides ...

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      TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 3, Year 4 The Arts

      • TLF-IDM025092

      This unit uses various arts practices as the stimuli for exploring the safety message of Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Students create woven artworks to incorporate safety messages; they collaboratively develop a play about safety; and explore rap as a music form and combined with dance convey a safety message in a performance.

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      Stories in the dark

      • TLF-IDM025937

      This resource is designed to support Stage 4 drama students in understanding the characteristics of good radio plays and learning to use vocal expression to create clear and engaging characters. They will rehearse, perform and record a short radio play that can be shared with an audience.

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      Musical theatre – drama

      • TLF-IDM025931

      Discover the dramatic style of musical theatre through performance. Explore the origins and theatrical conventions and techniques of musical theatre as a performance style. Students will create a character performance based on a musical theatre piece.

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