Text Requirement Mapping Year 3 2014
CLOSE reading, viewing, listening of at least two texts per stage
Classic Fairytales, eg The Barefoot
FICTION
Book of Fairytales retold by Malachy
Doyle, Hans Christian Anderson
fairytales, Aesops Fables
The Lightkeeper’s Catastrophe by
Ronda and David Armitage, Brambly
Hedge Spring Story, Flat Stanley
FILM
In each year:
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Print
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Visual
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Media
Youtube clips
DRAMA
POETRY
NON-FICTION
Novels and short stories
Reader’s Theatre, Mime,
Improvisation
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, And
the Red Galoshes by Millard and
Bently, The Man from Snowy River by
Banjo Paterson, My Country by
Dorothea Mackellar, A Child’s Garden
of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Persuasive Texts from guided reading
Information Books about the Sea
Wonder Why Series
Examples of reviews from Book Week
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Multimedia
Digital texts
Across the stage, students must be given experience of:
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Quality Literature
Australian literature
Aboriginal experiences
Speeches, films
See Fiction and Poetry above
The Man from Snowy River By Banjo Paterson
My Country by Dorothea Mackellar
Audrey’s bIg Secret by Christine Harris
Picture books, graphic novels,
films, art works
News articles, editorials, travel
brochures, ads
Films and docos
Websites, blogs, apps, e-books
from Reading Eggs eg the
Human Body.
Barrumbi Kids by Leonie Norrington
Growing up at Uluru Australia by Stanley Breeden
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From other countries and times
Intercultural experiences
Insights about peoples and cultures of Asia
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Cultural, social, gender perspectives
Environmental and social sustainability
Nonfiction, picture books, graphic novels
Digital texts, film, media and multimedia
Just one wish – by Sally Rippen
The peasant prince by Li cunxin
The White Crane by Yunko Morimoto
The Willow Pattern Story by Allan Drummond
The Wishing Cupboard by Libby Hathorn