The Arrival - Shaun Tan - Comprehensive worksheets

This set of detailed worksheets allows students to deconstruct The Arrival by Shaun Tan. It assists students in understanding and analysing the beautiful imagery and powerful story shaped by this master storyteller.

In total this resource includes 12 pages of worksheets, with a double or single page on each part from the picture book. Worksheets included focus in particular on the following skills or techniques:

Part 1 - themes, body language, representation, connotations
Part 2 - comprehension, tone, representation
Part 3 - summarising, contrast, symbolism, emotion
Part 4 - mixed visual techniques (with definitions), creation of mood
Part 5 - comprehension, symbolism (single page)
Part 6 - selectivity and salience (implied, terms not used in worksheet) (single page)

Whether you use every worksheet, choose one or two to deepen your students’ understanding, or even pick and mix questions from the different documents, these worksheets will help your students pull apart this incredible narrative and understand how Tan has created such a powerful narrative without a single word.

All worksheets are included in both Word and pdf format to give you compatibility and flexibility.

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While you’re here, why not check out these other resources on picture books for older readers?

• The Rabbits (Shaun Tan and John Marsden)
• The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan)
• The Red Tree (Shaun Tan)
• Cicada (Shaun Tan)
• Eric (Shaun Tan)
• The Island (Armin Greder)
• Australia to Z (Armin Greder)
• Woolvs in the Sitee (Margaret Wild and Anne Spudvilas)
• Girl on Wire (Lucy Estela and Elise Hurst)
• Flight (Nadia Wheatley and Armin Greder)