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Cairney, T. (2009). Author Focus: Tohby Riddle [blog post]. Retrieved from http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2009/10/author-focus-tohby-riddle.html

NSW Education Standards Authority (2012). NSW K-10 English Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Sydney: NSW Government.

Riddle, T. (2018). Notes on The Great Escape from City Zoo [blog post]. Retrieved from  https://tohbyriddle.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/notes_on_thegreat-escapefromcityzoo.pdf

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Padlet https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki

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Examples throughout the book of iconic images and intertextual references.
Teaching and learning idea: what makes an image iconic or enduring?
Teaching and learning idea: exploration of historical events or the period of time represented in the book. Eg. construction of the Empire State Building.
[potential links to History syllabus]

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Teaching and learning idea: Using iPads, students could prepare short news clips about the escape from the zoo with one student acting as the report, one as the cameraperson, and others as eye-witness accounts.

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A number of regional/rural schools plan an excursion to Sydney for students in Stage 3, which often includes a visit to Taronga Zoo.
Teaching and learning idea: Prior to the excursion, students could be asked to pick an animal in the story (either an escapee or not) and prepare a research project about that animal. [potential links to Geography + Science syllabuses]

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Teaching and learning ideas:
- Newspaper articles about the animals escaping from the zoo
- Diary entries written by the escaped animals or the zookeepers trying to catch them
- Prequel story: as the animals plan their escape
- Sequel story: the fabulous adventures of a flamingo forevermore on the run
- Transcript of an interview with the three animals returned to the zoo
- Wanted signs or notices made by the zookeepers trying to recapture the animals
- Create a scene of a place you've never visited using well know paintings [links to Creative Arts syllabus]

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The Great Escape from City Zoo                 Tohby Riddle

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The Great Escape from City Zoo                 Tohby Riddle

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Example of links to NSW English K-6 syllabus:

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Example of links to NSW English K-6 syllabus:

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EN3-3A: Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies.
EN3-6B: Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
EN3-7C: Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.

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- Allows for multiple readings. Eg. a purely imaginative escape from the zoo; a juxtaposition of the city with the animal kingdom; a representation of life when you don't quite fit into the world around you.
- Literary acknowledgements: CBCA 1998 shortlist + Premier's Literary Awards 1999.
- "Quality children's literature can support  students to learn about how authors play with literary genres, language, images and words" (Gleeson 2007, as cited in Rossbridge & Rushton, 2010)

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Aspects of language structures and features used by the author

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Aspects of language structures and features used by the author

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- Alliteration - "dog down on the docks" p.3 (characters are crammed into the 'dog house'.)
- Characters not referenced by name but use of 3rd person pronouns: They, Them, Their. Creates distance between character and reader.
- A picture tells a thousand words: Text is limited to 2-3 sentences per page/image, much like a caption in a newspaper or a gallery.
- Play on words - "But the elephant blew it when he could no longer resist the fountain in the town." The image accompanying this text is the elephant blowing water from its trunk.

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- Black and white visuals, like an album of freeze frames (cinematic).
- Draws on iconic artworks e.g. Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, This is not a Pipe by Rene Margritte, Abbey Road Album by Beatles (using a Zebra crossing), King Kong movie (another animal loose in the city), photographs by Lewis Hine (who documented labourers in C20th America).

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- Nobody Owns the Moon
- The Singing Hat
- The Tip At The End Of The Street
Teaching and learning idea: Author Study.