'Tilly' is a story that highlights the beauty of childhood memories and the importance of personal treasures.
This activity pack includes activities to support this text, which allow students to make connections between the text and their own experiences, explore characterisation and explore narrative concepts.
Included in this pack:
*Text-to-Self connection activities- students compare their own house with Tilly's and discuss similarities and differences between themselves and Tilly.
*Tilly's Treasures activity- students use adjectives to describe some of Tilly's treasures from the book.
*My treasure activity- students connect with a treasure they may have and describe it and why it is precious to them.
*Adverb activity- students explore the use of adverbs to describe how Tilly played with her treasures. There are adverb cards used to change the sentence and students have the opportunity to write their own sentence.
*Memories are pictures activity- students write a description of a memory and get a friend to draw what they visualise from the description.
*Noun group strips- students identify the article, adjective and noun in noun groups from the text.
*Emotions activity- students identify emotions that are bought up by various events in the story.
*Memory Map- students create a 'Heart Map' with different memories and treasures that are special to them.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449)
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452)
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning (ACELA1453)
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581)
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)
Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591)