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Excursion Summary

Stage 2

Creative Arts

English

Duration:

90 minutes

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Students will develop their visual literacy skills on an educator-led tour of the exhibition Imagine...the Wonder of Picture Books.

In this 90-minute program students will:

tour the exhibition
listen to a reading of the picture book Under the Love Umbrella
compose a visual literacy responses
create a collaborative artwork.

Curriculum outcomes

English

EN2-6B: Identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts, distinguishes between different forms of English and identifies organisational patterns and features.
EN2-7B: Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts.
EN2-8B: Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter.
EN2-10C: Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts.
EN2-11D: Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own.

Creative Arts

VAS2.1: Represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter.
VAS2.3: Acknowledges that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible.
VAS2.4: Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques.

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