Text Innovation

I have created a text innovation using the picture book Who’s that knocking? By Alison Lester which would be suitable for stage 1. The book encourages readers to predict what the silhouette at the door is using descriptive language. In the book a shadow described as a slithering, slimy and mean boa constrictor is in fact Barnaby the cleaner with a vacuum cleaner with the hose wrapped around his head. The first slide continues with focus on character and shows the shadow of a man holding an object and there is something else which is not easily identified. Is it another person? When the door opens he is standing opposite a kangaroo! The following slides focus on setting. By changing the setting students could discuss how that might change other things in the story and how when reading a new story for the first time, identifying the setting might help develop vocabulary and predicting. The setting also helps the reader make text to world connections. Students should be familiar with the silhouette of the Sydney Opera House. The second image is of London with the London eye in the background. This leads to the achievement of outcome RS1.7.

References
Lester, A. (1993) Who’s that knocking? Camberwell: Penguin Group
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