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This is a unit of work I created for my Stage Two students, based on the text “Gorilla” by Anthony Browne. Whilst I used it as a shared reading text, it would be easily adapted to a guided reading group with the “questions to consider” serving as comprehension questions.

This unit has a heavy visual literacy focus, requiring students to “read between the lines” and interpret the illustrations, focussing on line, colour and size.

The unit contains:

  • a suggested guide to shared reading

  • an in-depth background to gorillas - habits, habitat, behaviour, endangered status and fun facts

  • learning intentions

  • a shared reading guide - page by page discussion prompts with both literal and inferential comprehension questions

  • embedded visual literacy prompts

  • an “after the text” guide with a debate topic

  • a mini writing unit (with one writing prompt per day, to match the week of shared reading lessons) with rich stimulus images and writing prompts.

I taught this unit of work over one week.

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Anthony Browne MEGA bundle - 6 books - NO PREP - Visual Literacy - Comp.

This is a mega-bundle of six books by Anthony Browne. The books included are: * Voices in the Park * Gorilla * Zoo * Piggybook * Through the Magic Mirror * Silly Billy The focus of the book units is shared reading. The units of work were designed around shared reading sessions and, in particular, accessing student's visual literacy skills. The larger units of work are "Voices in the Park", "Gorilla", "Silly Billy" and "Zoo", which all contain literature circle task cards, linked Creative Arts activities, step-by-step shared reading guides and much more. I love using the work of Anthony Browne in my classroom, and my students thoroughly enjoyed these units of work, particularly the consolidation tasks with Creative Arts integrated throughout. This is the equivalent to WEEKS of literacy teaching and learning - we spent ten weeks in total looking at the work of Anthony Browne using these resources. Whilst I teach in an Australian context, these books are not linked to specific Australian content and would be well-suited to any English speaking classroom. Spelling and grammar are UK/Australian. I used these books in a Year 3/4 classroom but they would equally be suitable for older children. PLEASE NOTE: These resources were all genuinely created in real-time for my classes over the last two years. As a result, the units of work differ in content and structure. Please use the individual prices as an indication of the resources included (or simply look at the individual products). For example, Voices in the Park is a very comprehensive unit as we used this book for several weeks. It contains mini-lessons, literature circle task cards, printables, assessments and shared reading lessons. The "Piggybook" resource, on the other hand, is very simple because we only used this for shared reading without integrated resources. If you enjoy this resource, please consider leaving lovely feedback. It really helps little seller-mums like me out (and this will give you a great discount to use on future resources). Feel free to check out all the other Literacy resources in my store. Happy reading!

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