Writers Workshop – Background Perspective

We listened to the story ‘Tall’ by Jez Alborough. In this story, a tiny chimp wants to always feel taller than the other animals in the jungle.

He notices that everyone is bigger than him. His friends let him climb up on them to help him feel taller.

Our focus with the ‘mentor text’ was to notice how the author/illustrator chose to create his background. In this book, the central image in the illustration has lots of background behind it. 

We also noticed how the author used speech bubbles to show what the animals were saying. We tried to ‘read’ the words using our knowledge of letter sounds.

Next, the students were invited to create their own books. They quickly gathered their clipboards and paper and found a comfortable space in the Library to sit with their projects.

At the end of the session we included page numbers and stamped the date on our pages.

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 SLO’s

• focus on a speaker and maintain eye contact
• listen and respond to picture books, showing pleasure, and demonstrating their understanding through gestures, expression and/or words
• observe, discuss and comment on the information being conveyed in illustrations
• tell their own stories using illustrations and words
• use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic