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The Shouting Girl: L10 Summarising

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), Recount (English Language and Literacy),

Level

Year 2,

Description

This engaging activity builds comprehension skills by helping students summarising The Shouting Girl using a recount structure. Through shared reading and guided questions, students learn how to organise key events and improve their understanding of text structure — a perfect way to conclude a Talk for Reading unit.

Learning Intentions

• We are learning to summarise the story to strengthen our comprehension skills.

Successful Criteria

• I can retell the story in my own words.
• I can identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
• I can use key events to help with summarising.

Curriculum Alignment

AC9E2LY01 9.0 (English Language and Literacy Year 2): Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts

• reading a poem, narrative and informative text about lifecycles and discussing what is learnt
• exploring recipes presented on food packets, in recipe books, in short video clips and in a digital form, noting their shared purpose

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
Butcher’s paper or whiteboard
Summarising sheet

Instructions

Important Note to Teachers!

If you think the four pages before the last page (about parents arguing at home) are sensitive to your children, please gently skip them.
If you see them as an opportunity to discuss anger issues in adults (as adults are still learning too), please have ‘protective interrupting’ strategy in mind in case children tend to disclose information in front of the class.

Warm-up

Ask: “What do you remember about the story?”
Discuss key events from the beginning, middle, and end.
Record ideas on the board or butcher’s paper.

Reading – Last Read Aloud

Read The Shouting Girl as a class, chunk by chunk.
Pause to reinforce story events as students listen.
Discuss the type of the text.

Summarising – Class Model

Work with the whole class how to summarise the story using a 3-part template: Orientation, series of events, and ending
Use guiding questions for each part:
- Orientation – Where? When? What? Who?
- Events – What happened? What happened next? Then?
- Ending – How did the main characters feel?

Activity – Summarising Sheet

Give each student a summarising sheet.
Students write or draw into the designated parts
Invite students to share their summaries with the class or a partner.

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