Lesson

3: SALIENCE
Inquiry Question: What is salience and how does it contribute to making meaning of text?
Learning Intention: (Taken from achievement standards/Learning Progressions):
Students understand how images influence interpretations of characters, settings and events.

Receptive: COMPREHENDING Productive: COMPOSING
Success Criteria:
I understand what salience in an image means and how I can write about salience in images and demonstrate my
it contributes to our understanding of text understanding of its importance in meaning making
I understand what vector means
Gradual Release of Responsibility Model- Teaching Strategies:
Familiarising Modelling Sharing Guiding Working Independently
Resource 1: Display Introduce the word Resource 1: Display the Activity sheet The The children are to
Image 1 or 2: and ask the
salience refers to the other images and discuss children are to trim their complete the second
following: feature in the image that the salient features of magazine pictures and activity independently.
attracts our attention. It each. paste into the boxes on the (where possible).
What is the first thing you is generally the first thing sheet.
notice (look at) in the we look at. Explain to the class that
image? / What stands out each child will receive Guide the students
the most? What leads your eyes two pictures from a through one image and the
from one part of the magazine. They are to questions relating to it.
Why do you think you image to the next? circle in black, the part of
looked at this part of the Explain: When we look at the image they looked at
image first? an image our eyes move first and discuss their
Make a list of the from focusing on the reasons with a partner.
childrens responses most notable feature in
the image, and back and Provide an opportunity
forward to less notable for the children to share
features. their observations to the
Introduce word Vector class and clarify their
refers to a line that leads understanding.
your eyes from one
Look at the picture again, feature to another. It may Resource 3: After the
what else do you notice in be a visible line or an discussion each child is
the image?/ what else is invisible one. Vectors can to complete the activity
important? be created by pointing, sheet for lesson 3.
Repeat activity with extended arms, gazing
Image 2. etc.

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