LESSON PLAN

Unit/lesson title Year 8- A Picture Tells a Thousand Lesson duration:

78
Stage
Words
minutes
Year 8
Rationale
Prior knowledge
Students begin to explore visual literacy and the terminology
None, first lesson of the unit.
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Content/learning experiences
Teaching
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strategies
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510

Introduction
Starting a new unit called A picture tells a thousand words.
Are picture books just for kids?
What can we learn from picture books?
What makes a good picture book?
briefly touch on last lessons short introduction.
Go through definitions of visual techniques on powerpoint,
ask students to title a page glossary
Explain we will use these techniques to decode the front
cover of the book we will be focussing on for this unit.
The picture book we are looking at is The Rabbits by Shaun
Tan.
Distribute class set of text, keep books closed.
Students complete the techniques sheet and use this
information to write the prediction, model a few of these
boxes.
Prediction activity- From the image on the cover predict what
the text will be about, write this in the box. Justify what in the
image-helped students come to this conclusion.
If this goes quickly do first read of the text before swapping

Connections to
existing
knowledge

Class/group 8

Assessm
ent
techniqu
es
Diagnostic

Resources

Box of
picture
books
Class set of
the rabbits

Powerpoint and
glossary to
scaffold
understanding
and also
provide
students with
material so
they can work
at their own
pace.
Modelling

Whole
class

Power point
Glossary
Work sheets

Formative

with Adam. If this goes slowly leave Adam to complete the

table and interview a picture book activity.
First read. Students read along with their copy so they can
see the detail of the images.
Discuss plot to see if students adequately followed the story
of the book.
This is a non-fiction text, whose story is it telling?
Depictions of actual images about this topic, indigenous
people in the chains.
Numbat pictures