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Super stories: The Sea Cave: nouns and adjectives

Super stories: The Sea Cave: nouns and adjectives

TLF ID L6186

Help a publishing director create a bestselling horror story. Read the story. Choose effective nouns and adjectives to increase the impact of the story and make it scarier. Select illustrations that highlight the horror of the events. This learning object is one in a series of four objects.

Tags: adjectives L6186 Super stories: The Sea Cave: nouns and adjectives Literacy Group Adjectives nouns
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Educational details

Educational value
  • Illustrates how image choices and verbal choices impact on the construction of meaning in a narrative text.
  • Requires students to read a narrative text, and then change nouns and add adjectives to make the text more effective.
  • Illustrates how the selection of images can increase the sense of horror in a narrative text.
  • Provides feedback to students on the specific impact of different choices.
  • Includes an option to print the final story.
  • Includes an option to print a new story to edit and improve using the same strategies.
Year level

4; 5; 6

Topics Adjectives Nouns Word meanings Characters (Narratives) Grammar Editing Illustration Sentences (Grammar) Narratives Mood (Literary style) Settings (Narratives)
Learning area
  • English

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Liquid Animation Pty Ltd
  • Organization: Liquid Animation Pty Ltd
  • Description: Technical implementer
  • Address: QLD, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.liquidanimation.com
  • Person: Marcelle Holliday
  • Description: Script writer
  • Person: Marcelle Holliday
  • Description: Subject matter expert
  • Person: Catherine Beavis
  • Description: Educational validator
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Colour independence
  • Device independence
  • Hearing independence
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2016, except where indicated under Acknowledgements. Unless otherwise indicated, this material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.