


What materials should we use? Have certain groups responsible for rain sounds, thunder sounds etc….As a class they will try to recreate certain sounds to imitate the sound of a storm. Students will participate in a storm soundscape.

What would you expect a storm to sound like?.If the wind could talk what would it say?.How would you feel? What things would you expect to see in a storm? What is the same and what is different about the covers?.What clues do they give us about what the story might be about?.Display the different Storm Boy book covers.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).Write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity (ACELY1696).Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692).Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689).Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688).Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602).The unit includes a workbook that students will use to complete activities. Student workbooks can also be collected and marked for text understanding. The activities have been explicitly designed for the Year 4 Australian Curriculum outcomes, but can be easily adapted to suit other year levels. Multiple activities have been provided to engage learners of mixed learning abilities and learning styles. Activities have been designed around the themes covered from reading the required pages in each lesson. This unit of nine lesson plans is focused around the book Storm Boy by Colin Thiele.
