Literacy

__**Book Trailers **__

Here is an excellent example of the kind of book trailer you will be making ...

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Here is another example which is shorter in length ...

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Below are a series of links that you can use for sourcing your images and music for your book trailer ...

[|Royalty Free Music]

Copyright Friendly Wiki

[|Copyright Free Images 1]

[|Copyright Free Images 2]

__ Descriptive Writing __

For our next literacy unit, we will be focussing on descriptive writing.


 * The learning intentions for this unit are ... (WALT)**

• construct texts that show an awareness of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language and text form. • organise and sequence ideas and information for particular purpose of effect. • use a range of language features that engage the audience and convey meaning


 * We will be using the mysteries of Harris Burdick for our motivation. Who was Harris Burdick? See below.**

This collection of pictures is part of the intriguing mystery of a real man named Harris Burdick. A book editor was visited by a man named Harris Burdick who wanted to pitch his book ideas for the children's picture books that he had written and illustrated. He brought with him one picture from each book with a title and a caption. The editor was very interested in the man's work and asked him to come back the next day and bring his entire works. He agreed and left his drawings with the editor. The man never came back and was never heard from again.

 Although the editor tried to track Harris Burdick down, he could not find any trace that the man had ever existed. That mystery remains unsolved to this day. The only thing that remains of the man Harris Burdick are the titles and drawings that he left behind.



















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