Unit Synopsis
By the end of the Talk for Reading (T4R) unit on The Shouting Girl, students will be able to:
- Recognise signs of anger or dysregulation by interpreting charactersโ reactions, language, and facial expressions.
- Identify which actions were helpful or unhelpful, and reflect on what they can learn from the characters, such as emotional regulation and inclusion strategies.
- Empathise with Kim by exploring her underlying emotions and traits beneath the surface.
- Justify their opinions by making personal connections and referring to specific parts of the text.
Reading Skill Focus
- Responding to literature
- Questioning
- Interacting with others
- Predicting
- Monitoring
- Retrieving facts
- Connecting (text-to-self and text-to-text)
- Inferring
- Summarising
- Evaluating
Reading Strategies
- Discussion
- Dialogic reading
- Read along
- Echoing
- Evaluation
Supporting Texts
- The Red Beast by K.i. Al-Ghani
Other skills
- Identifying situations that may trigger strong emotional responses in themselves and others
- exploring self-regulation strategies to manage emotional responses
- Identifying and practising ways to interact with others in a fair and respectful way in play and other activities
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