'Feathers for Phoebe' is a fun and engaging story that explores self-confidence and self-acceptance.
This activity pack includes activities to support this text, which allow students to discuss, comprehend, make connections and explore themes of confidence and identity. There are various activities that can be adapted and cater for Pre- Year 6.
Included in this pack:
*Adjectives activity card where students can draw or write about each character based on the adjectives used in the book.
*Investigating song- students can research the song from the book and create their own song to represent themselves.
*Alternate ending activity.
*Write instructions activity which allows students to use descriptive language to describe a new character. Their friend can draw or write about this new character.
*Author Study- students can research and write a biography on Rod Clement.
*Retell the Story activity where students can create a comic strip/cartoon to retell the story.
*Persuasive letter to convince Phoebe that she does not need anything 'fancy' to be 'fabulous'.
*Self-acceptance activity cards- students can identify how Phoebe felt in the story and make connections with their own self by creating a 'This is me...' poster.
*Self-Success activity which allows students to identify successes they have achieved in the past, present and hope to in the future.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication (ACELT1586)
Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1668)
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594)
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596)
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596)
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605)
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611)