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The Shouting Girl: L11 Evaluation

The Book

The Shouting Girl

Written by Steven Huynh, illustrated by Gehenna Pham, published by Steven De GC

The story follows a young girl who struggles to express herself calmly, often shouting when she feels frustrated or unheard. Through her journey, she learns to recognise and understand her emotions (AC9HPFP03, AC9HP2P03 – Foundation to Year 2, Health and Physical Education) and works to develop positive strategies for expressing her thoughts and feelings in respectful ways (AC9HPFP02, AC9HP2P02 – Foundation to Year 2, Health and Physical Education).

The story also encourages children to explore characters’ perspectives and emotional responses, fostering empathy (AC9HP2P01 – Health and Physical Education, Years 1 and 2). It helps them define safe and unsafe environments, such as calm corners, through interactions with friends in a classroom, establishing help-seeking strategies in such situations (AC9HP2P05 – Health and Physical Education, Years 1 and 2).

With its poetic language and engaging illustrations, The Shouting Girl helps students understand how rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in a text. It also explores how words and images shape settings and characters, along with other literary features such as lists of three and similes.

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Resource creator

Steven Huynh

Subject

Reading comprehension (English Language and Literacy),

Level

Year 2,

Description

This reflective lesson helps students practise evaluation in reading. Using a guided discussion and worksheet, students form opinions, justify them with text evidence, and articulate their thinking clearly. A great way to wrap up a Talk for Reading unit and consolidate learning around emotions and empathy.

Learning Intentions

• We are learning to reflect on and evaluate the text by using full sentences, evidence from the text, and our own opinions to deepen comprehension.

Successful Criteria

• I can complete the evaluation template using full sentences.
• I can use evidence in reading where suitable.
• I can explain my thinking clearly.

Curriculum Alignment

AC9E2LY04 9.0 (English Language and Literacy Year 2): Read texts with phrasing and fluency, using phonic and word knowledge, and monitoring meaning by re-reading and self-correcting

• using phonic (sound–letter) and morphemic knowledge, and knowledge of high-frequency words when decoding text
• monitoring own reading, self-correcting or reading back, re-reading when meaning does not make sense

AC9E2LY05 9.0 (English Language and Literacy Year 2): Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning

• listening for specific information and providing key facts or points from an informative or persuasive text
• listening and responding to detailed instructions
• integrating information from print, images and prior knowledge to make supportable inferences
• identifying the main idea of a text
• predicting vocabulary that is likely to be in a text, based on the topic and the purpose of the text; for example, predicting that “station” and “arrive” would be in a text recounting a train journey
• using prior knowledge to make and confirm predictions when reading a text
• using graphic organisers to represent the connections between characters, order of events or sequence of information

Materials

The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh
Student copies of the Evaluation Sheet
Pencils or writing tools

Instructions

Warm-up

Revisit the main themes: emotions, regulation, inclusion, exclusion, and friendship.
Discuss:
- What message do you think this story is trying to share?
- What’s one thing have you learned from the characters or story?
Model a response using full sentences and text clues.

Independent Reading (Optional)

Allow students to revisit parts of the book if needed while completing the task.

Activity – Evaluation Sheet

Students complete the evaluation template independently.
Encourage students to use text evidence and explain their thinking.

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