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      Listed under:  Language  >  Text types  >  Imaginative texts  >  Narratives  >  Plots (Stories)
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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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      How to retell a story (for kids)

      • TLF-IDM021317

      A short video (1:48) for students explains how to retell a story focusing on characters, setting and major events.

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      The ad campaign

      • TLF-IDM025077

      This learning sequence invites students to analyse the 'Dumb Ways to Die' advertising campaign and how the key messages are communicated to the audience. Students then design a new iteration of the Dumb Ways to Die campaign, that could engage a young audience and provide messages about travel safety not covered by the original ...

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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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      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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      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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      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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      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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      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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      Storyline Online: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

      • TLF-IDM025716

      Wilfrid lives next to a retirement home, and his favorite old person is 96-year-old Miss Nancy. Everyone says Miss Nancy has lost her memory, and despite the fact that Wilfrid doesn't even know what a memory is, by accident he helps her find it. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known ...

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      Monologues

      • TLF-IDM025939

      Develop skills in characterisation through personal storytelling through monologues.

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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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      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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      Storyline Online: The empty pot by Demi

      • TLF-IDM025712

      The Chinese Emperor announces an unusual test to choose an heir—the child who raises the best flowers from a seed given by the Emperor will be his successor. Ping, unaccountably, is unable to get his seed to sprout—but Ping’s empty pot is best of all. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known ...

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      Lights, camera, action!

      • TLF-IDM025952

      Students explore screenwriting for video drama.

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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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      Let's act out

      • TLF-IDM025839

      Develop skills in preparing and performing a character monologue.

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      Storyline Online: Sophie's masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli

      • TLF-IDM025711

      Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known US based actors supported by the ...

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      Storyline Online: A tale of two beasts by Fiona Robertson

      • TLF-IDM025710

      There are two sides to every story. In Part One, a little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then, in Part Two, the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who force-fed it squirrel food, ...

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      TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Foundation, Year 1, Year 2 The Arts

      • TLF-IDM025091

      This unit uses the idea of track safe behaviours as the stimulus for Arts activities including the lines on a platform to explore artworks that use line as medium; dramatising safe behaviours through role play; and exploring sounds and music associated with trains in order to compose and perform music that simulates a train ...

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