Reading around the text 'Greenling'
I can explain a personal response to the text.
Reading around the text 'Greenling'
I can explain a personal response to the text.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- There are many themes that are explored in ‘Greenling’ including change and transformation, sustainability & rewilding.
- Reading around a text can deepen our understanding of significant themes and ideas in a text.
- Sharing personal responses allows readers to engage more deeply with the story and build connections to the text.
- Different readers may interpret a text in different ways.
Keywords
Theme - A theme is a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a story.
Rewilding - Rewilding is a conservation approach that restores ecosystems to their natural state by reintroducing key species and promoting natural processes.
Sustainability - Sustainability means using resources wisely without depleting them for future generations.
Personal response - A personal response is expressing your own opinions, ideas or feelings.
Common misconception
Pupils may find thinking of connections between 'Greenling' and the rewilding non-fiction text challenging.
Model making connections aloud, focusing on character, setting and plot. Some pupils may benefit from printed double-page spreads of certain illustrations to support.
Equipment
You need a copy of the 2015 Templar Publishing edition of ‘Greenling’ written and illustrated by Levi Pinfold, for this lesson.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
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a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a story
an approach that restores ecosystems to a natural state
expressing your own opinions, ideas or feelings