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For the Teacher .A regular night of dream delivering turns into a literalnightmare when a boy’s book of ancient mythology comesalive in the Dream Giver.Follow the journey and help your students learn torecognise and build suspense, and unpack the wonderfulworld of the Dream esources
Dream Giver Animation .https://vimeo.com/106989758Behind theScenesBack
Teaching &LearningIdeasAliceVigors2018
Before ViewingOrienting students to the text is a vitalcomponent of the reading process. Thisphase helps teachers model and studentspractice before reading strategies.During the orientation phase students learnto do the following things: Examine the title of the digital text DreamGiver. Discuss: What does the title of this animation make youthink? What does it make you wonder? Why does it make you think and wonder thesethings? Activate or build prior knowledge oftopics, text types and purposes Make predictions and connections to andfrom the text Orient themselves to the specific textThis supports the reader to:Go toResource Discussion prompts:What kind oftext might thisbe?What is theauthorspurpose?Who might thetarget audiencebe?Have you read orseen other thingsrelated to thistopic?o Establish an overall picture of meaningo Move through the text building andsynthesising new ideas and existingknowledge.
During Viewing Begin to watch the animation and stop it at50 seconds Predicting: Use the thinking routine SeeThink Wonder to make new predictionsabout the animationWhat do you see,observe or noticein this animation?What does itmake you thinkwill happen next?Why do you thinkthis might havehappened?What does itmake youwonder?Go toResource NB: More information about the thinking routine See Think Wonder can befound on my website: htmlAfter Viewing Describing: Use descriptive language todescribe the dream giver and/or theserpent. Brainstorm words to describe the character Can you incorporate the five senses? Go to Resource Can you include a variety of interesting andcomplex adjectives? Can you include similes and metaphor? Write a descriptive paragraph
After Viewing Writing: Choose one of the dreams andcreate a short story Ballerina Astronaut Baseball player Musician Serpent Writing: Imagine the story continues overthe next few nights. What might happen? Brainstorm a range of possibilities Choose one idea to develop further – planning,illustrating, storyboarding etc. Compose the next instalment in The DreamGiver: (students give theirversion a title) Writing: Create an exchange of dialoguebetween two characters Comprehension: Examine the events fromthe point of view of one of the charactersusing the thinking routine Step Inside NB: More information about the thinking routine Step Inside can be found on mywebsite: After Viewing Comprehension: Here are a range ofquestion prompts you could use to helpstudents comprehend the text.Where does thedream givercome from?What might he bewriting in thenotebook? Why?What is thesubstance insidethe eggs?Why is the dreamgiver concernedwhen the eggfalls off the bed?Why and howdoes the dreamgiver use the lastfew eggs to helpthe boy?How does themusic influencethe viewer?What wakes theboy and howdoes he feel?Why is theserpent angry?
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Orienting to the Text What does the titleof this animationmake you think? What does it makeyou wonder? Why does it makeyou think andwonder thesethings?
See Think Wonder- Thinking RoutineSeeThinkWonderWhat are the things that you see,observe or notice in thisanimation?What does it make you think will happennext?Why do you think this might havehappened?What does it make you wonder?Adapted by Alice Vigors 2017
What does this charactercare deeply about? Howdo you know? Giveevidence.Adapted by Alice Vigors 2017What puzzles thischaracter throughout thetext? What questionsarise for you about thischaracter or theiractions?Why do they think these events haveoccurred? What is their role in theseevents?Character:What does the character see, observeor notice throughout the text?Step Inside
Giver. Discuss: What does the title of this animation make you think? What does it make you wonder? Why does it make you think and wonder these things? Discussion prompts: Go to Resource What kind of text might this be? Who might the target audience be? Have you read or seen other things related to this topic? What is the authors purpose?
