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      Making waves with Hokusai

      • TLF-IDM025951

      Students create artworks and poetry inspired by the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

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      Hannie Rayson on the Australian voice in theatre

      • TLF-IDM019984

      How important do you think it is to hear Australian stories told on stage? Listen as Hannie Rayson explains her early beliefs about where great drama comes from. After watching this clip, try writing a dramatic scene that takes place at a family barbeque.

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      How to be funny

      • TLF-IDM020220

      What is the key to being funny? As Tim Ferguson explains, if you can laugh, you can write comedy. Has something funny happened to you lately? Or is there something in particular that you find puzzling or amusing about the world around you? Put your thoughts on paper and experiment with telling your story in different ways. ...

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      Hannie Rayson on writing complex roles for women

      • TLF-IDM020009

      Watch as Hannie Rayson describes her early desire to write multidimensional, complex roles for women in her plays. What was this in response to?  Why is it important for audiences to see female characters as well as male characters driving drama in plays? 

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      Stories without words

      • TLF-IDM025942

      Learn how Australian story-teller, artist and academy award winner, Shaun Tan uses emotive illustrations to tell a story. You will also create your own character and tell a story using illustration.

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      Perspectives on Kamay

      • TLF-IDM025823

      This resource explores the perspectives of the Aboriginal people of Kamay Botany Bay and the men aboard the HMB Endeavour upon their meeting in 1770. It will also help students to understand the history of Australia's Aboriginal peoples and why their stories of the past are equally important to hear. Note to Aboriginal ...

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      Fun with flowers

      • TLF-IDM025958

      Students discover the creative and scientific art of botanical illustration and respond to the drawing through poetry and music.

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      Alison Lester – writing your own books

      • TLF-IDM021372

      This twelve video resource contains video of author and illustrator Alison Lester guiding students to create, first a collaborative whole class book and second, an individual book using digital technologies. In each video Lester discusses aspects of her creative processes and the books she has written. Her books are aimed ...

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      Refugees welcome here

      • TLF-IDM021183

      This resource embeds the use of online collaboration tools and 21st century learning skills in a student-centered hands-on project designed to welcome refugees into their community. The syllabus outcomes are aligned to NSW Stage 4 English, Geography or Visual Arts but this could be used with older or younger students by ...

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      Writers Talk 2007

      • TLF-IDM016403

      A resource for primary and secondary students that features ten award-winning writers from the 2007 Sydney Writers' Festival. The resource explores each author's books, background, beliefs and approaches to writing, and includes advice for young writers. Video interviews of each author are accompanied by a biography, bibliography. ...

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      Through a child's eye: an especially joyous exhibition of mandalas

      • TLF-IDM012749

      This is a presentation of seven slides displaying a small exhibition of children's stories, related drawings and background information about mandalas. The stories and drawings illustrate selected fables as an expression of Buddhist teachings. The presentation was created as a result of an art project to commemorate the ...

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      Writing a discussion

      • TLF-IDM015233

      The resource contains information, activities and tasks on how to write a discussion. It includes writing and publishing templates for students for a variety of purposes and contexts. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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      Youth Theatre (unit)

      • TLF-IDM016655

      Youth theatre is a unit resource with three self-contained and independent resources for English and drama students. The unit focuses on the play 48 Shades of Brown, adapted from Nick Earls' award winning novel. It examines the themes, issues, setting, characters and language of the play. It also examines the staging of ...

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      Bear and Chook by the Sea

      • TLF-IDM020672

      This learning object is designed around a series of videos with Lisa Shanahan, author, and Emma Quay, illustrator, including a reading experience of their collaborative work, Bear and Chook by the Sea. Taken as a whole, this sequence of lessons is a Stage 1 unit of work that results in students working in pairs to produce ...

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      Strange faces

      • TLF-IDM025760

      Students explore the artworks of Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who lived four hundred years ago. He loved creating artworks out of other objects. He used objects like fruit, vegetables, sea creatures, flowers, bowls, barrels and books. Students create their own artwork in his style.

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      Little Red and the Big Bad Croc

      • TLF-IDA002744

      This imaginative digital text is an innovation on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood. It is an audio text with matching illustrations. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension) ...

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      AERO Ochre English Year 4 Unit 1 - A Christmas Carol: Narrative text

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      This sequence of fifteen lessons supports students to unpack the features of a narrative using Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. They will then work through the process of planning and composing a narrative text.

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      AERO Ochre English Year 5 Unit 3 - The Happy Prince: Narrative text

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      This sequence of five lessons explores the narrative ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde. Students will discuss the story’s theme and the author’s use of language to create atmosphere and reader engagement.

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      NGV Asian art

      • TLF-IDM021323

      This is a series of PDF and multimedia resources that illustrate and interpret examples of Asian art. Intended primarily for teachers of Foundation through to year 10, the series consists of c.45 two-page PDFs with text and images that include paintings, ceramics, textiles, and sculptures, and 11 multimedia resources that ...

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      Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

      • TLF-IDM021451

      This lesson plan (PDF) examines the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art contained within the National Gallery of Australia collection. Links to artworks are provided to support students' critical analysis of the forms of each work of art and to understand the rich diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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