Assess your ability to choose effective verbs, adverbs and illustrations to increase the impact of a horror story and make it scarier. Explain the reasoning behind some of your choices.
Objective
- Students relate the nature and strength of evaluative stance in texts to language and multi-modal choices.
-Students use grammatical forms such as verbs and adverbs to evoke an emotional response from readers of a horror story.
- Students analyse how particular language choices can give more or less emphasis, intensity, force or focus to evaluations.
-Students investigate how images influence the reader to adopt certain evaluative positions about a text.
Curriculum Information
Education Type
K to 12
Grade Level
Grade 4, Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 6
Learning Area
English
Content/Topic
Vocabulary Development
Writing and Composition
Grammar
Attitude
Intended Users
Competencies
Construct simple sentences
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Recognize adverbs of manner
Participate/ engage in a read-along of texts (e.g. poetry, repetitive text)
Express feelings, opinions through journals, logs etc.
Take part in creative responses to stories like preparing logs, journal and other oral presentations
Copyright Information
Copyright
Yes
Copyright Owner
Education Services Australia
Conditions of Use
Modify, Derive, Reproduce, Use, Copy, Print
Technical Information
File Size
0 bytes
File Type
application/x-rar
Software/Plug-in Requirements
Adobe Flash Player - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
