https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki Carolyn A and Belinda K en-us 2020-03-29 23:37:24 UTC 2025-03-03 19:24:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5e/72/6f/5e726f512ea312baedd94c6cb9141f4c--city-zoo-good-books.jpg carolyngrayallport https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/481223635 - Nobody Owns the Moon
- The Singing Hat
- The Tip At The End Of The Street
Teaching and learning idea: Author Study. ]]> 2020-03-30 03:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/481223635 https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/481228311 - 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).]]> 2020-03-30 03:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/481228311 carolyngrayallport https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488107319 - 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.

]]> 2020-04-02 06:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488107319 carolyngrayallport https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488110434 - 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)]]> 2020-04-02 06:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488110434 carolyngrayallport https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488111424 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. ]]> 2020-04-02 06:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488111424 carolyngrayallport https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488116920 2020-04-02 06:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/488116920 bkin2125 https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/489991975 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]]]> 2020-04-02 21:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/489991975 bkin2125 https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/490004096 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]]]> 2020-04-02 22:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/490004096 bkin2125 https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/490008376 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. ]]> 2020-04-02 22:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/490008376 https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/490077507 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]]]> 2020-04-02 23:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/490077507 bkin2125 https://padlet.com/carolyngrayallport/ytnej60ch9ki/wish/490206235 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

Rossbridge, J., & Rushton, K. (2010). Conversations about text : teaching grammar using literary texts . Newtown, N.S.W: Primary English Teaching Association

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