1. Building Understanding: The Sociocultural Functions of Narrative
EXPLORESuggested Learning Intentions
- To build students' understanding of the purpose of storytelling and narrative writing
- To enable students to use a range of strategies to represent their ideas, and explain and justify their thinking processes to others
Sample Success Criteria
- I can explain the purposes of narrative writing
- I can use graphic organisers and thinking routines to generate and organise ideas
- I can explain and justify my thinking processes to others
2. Building Understanding: Historical Context
EXPLORESuggested Learning Intentions
- To use reasoning skills to explore issues of ethical significance
- To explore the concept of ‘freedom of speech’
Sample Success Criteria
- I can identify and rank actions against a hierarchy of behaviour
- I can explore and explain the criteria that govern freedom of speech
3. Exploring How Words and Images Create Meaning
EXPLORESuggested Learning Intentions
- To build metalanguage to describe the structural elements of graphic texts
- To build a bank of visual metalanguage
- To understand how structural and visual features create meaning in a multimodal text
Sample Success Criteria
- I can use accurate metalanguage to describe the structural features of a graphic novel
- I can use visual metalanguage to describe the illustrations in a graphic novel
- I can explain how language structures and features are used to create meaning
4. Co-Constructing a Graphic Text
EXPLORESuggested Learning Intentions
- To co-create an imaginative, informative, or persuasive text using deliberate language and textual choices
- To experiment with language features and visual choices to create new texts
Sample Success Criteria
- I can collaboratively adapt a written text into a graphic format
- I can discuss how language features and visual choices affect the meaning of a text
5. Independent Construction: Creating Graphic Texts
EXPLORESuggested Learning Intentions
- To experiment with language features, including combinations of written and visual text
- To make deliberate textual choices to raise issues or advance opinions in imaginative or persuasive texts
- To use a range of software to create, edit and publish texts
Sample Success Criteria
- I can use a range of software to publish a graphic text
- I can employ structural and visual techniques to communicate effectively with an audience
- I can plan, draft, and edit my work for clarity