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The AusVELS standard that will be used as part of this learningopportunity is from the ‘exploring and responding’ strand in level 4, and is asfollows; ‘students comment on the exploration, development and presentation oftheir arts works, including the use of specific arts elements and techniques.They identify and describe key features of arts works from their own and othercultures’ (VCAA, 2012).

The Wilderness Society Fiction Award for Children’s Books 2005 ALA Notable Book USA 2005 Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture book of the Year Honour Book 2005 In a highly visual world where so much is communicated through image, it is essential that children learn to critically read pictures as well as text. Furthermore, reading pictures forces a different pace, which can help to encourage fast readers to slow down and attend to the details, which they may be inclined to skip past. Before reading Define the word mirror? The AusVELS standard which will beincorporated as part of the learning opportunity comes from level 4 as part ofthe ‘exploring and responding’ strand, and is ‘students use art language todescribe and discuss the communication of ideas, feelings and purpose in otherpeople’s arts works’ (VCAA, 2012).

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Kiddle encyclopedia articles are based on selected content and facts from Wikipedia, edited or rewritten for children. Australian National Maritime Museum (Sydney) - 19 May – 31 July 2016 Newcastle Museum - 6 August – 30 October 2016 Canberra Museum & Gallery - 26 November – 19 February 2016/17 Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria (Melbourne) - 15 March – 14 May 2017 Botanic Gardens of South Australia (Adelaide) - 5 June – 25 August 2017 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Hobart) - 7 September – 26 November 2017 Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens (Brisbane) - 11 December – 25 February 2017/18 Bundaberg Art Gallery - 7 March – 6 May 2018 Film

Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture book of the Year Honour Book Award 1990 The Australian Wilderness Society Fiction Award for Children’s books 1996 The American Library Association Notable Book 1996 Australian Film Industry Award for Best Australian animated Film Finalist 1995 Gold medal for animation Palma international Film Festival 1995 We see that in the context of strikingly different lifestyles, remotely different countries, landscapes, differences of clothing and all, the families are essentially the same. They care for each other, they need to belong, to be loved by their loved ones and be a part of their community. The simple truth is that even with all these differences, in the ways that really matter, we are all the same. We are the mirror of each other. An interesting feature of the book is that Baker doesn't use any words at all, leaving the pictures alone to tell the story. This, I think, makes it a great book to look at with children, in groups or individually, to see what they think is happening. It would be really interesting to see how different children interpret the illustrations differently. Australian Wilderness Society Fiction Award for Children’s Books 2001 Govern Award for Children’s Science Picture Books, USA Winner 2003

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Progressing scenes with a sad message. Upon closely studying each collage I became more and more impressed. I can't begin to know how long each took to construct.

Correction: Teacher will correct each student’s ‘The ArtisticWork of Jeannie Baker’ worksheet. This will allow for a thorough assessment of The work is quite two-dimensional but I play with the little real depth the work has and a strong illusion of perspective is created. In this learning opportunity, students will focus on the particular artelements of shape, texture and colour, expanding their knowledge of these elements. Students will be introduced to the picture book by Jeannie Bakercalled Mirror, which shows the comparison of two boys and theirfamilies, one in Sydney and the other in Morocco. Students will be able toapply their knowledge of the particular elements through focusing on specificillustrations that exist in Mirror as well as their ownartwork created in the previous lesson. An alienating city street gradually becomes a place to call home. Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbours begin to rescue their street. Together, children and adults plant grass and trees and bushes in the empty spaces. They paint murals over old graffiti. They stop the cars. Everything begins to blossom. Belonging explores the re-greening of the city: the role of community, the empowerment of people and the significance of children, family and neighbourhood in changing their urban environment. The streets gradually become places for safe children's play, and community activity and places for nature and wonder.'Retell the story from the point of view of Sam’s cat. How does it feel about the changes in the local area? Window is accessible for all ages and does not require any prior knowledge around the subject. However, discussion around the impact of humans on their environment and related issues would facilitate a deeper understanding of the book. The intended participants for thislearning experience will be primary school children who are in the year level ofgrades 3 and 4. The Think Aloud strategy is used to encourage students to voice their internal thoughts as they read. Reading short units of text cumulatively readers consider what individual words mean and how meanings shift and are firmed up as more information is provided. Students connect reading with their prior knowledge and complex thought processes are made visible. Good teachers model thinking aloud, speculation and problem solving as part of their everyday teaching. The next step is to explicitly show students how they can use this strategy to monitor their own comprehension.A script is useful to prepare to ensure you focus on particular strategies. A think aloud using a wordless picture book will encourage readers to slow down and focus on details. Here is an example below for the second spread: What I will say