Reef Writers
Primary & Middle School
English / Literacy
During their journey of discovery students get up close to the creatures of the reef and gain an appreciation for and inspiration from the diversity of colours, shapes, patterns and interrelationships that exist in nature.
Curriculum Links
Completing this Reef HQ Education Program will develop students' ability to:
- Make meaning of cultural contexts and social situations by interpreting and constructing literary, mass media and every day texts in ways to demonstrate understandings of what makes texts appropriate to and effective in a given cultural context and social situation;
- Demonstrate understandings of the ways texts are typically shaped, as genres and text types, according to cultural purposes;
- Interpret and construct spoken (signed), written, visual and multi-modal texts;
- Know about and use their knowledge of the ways in which choice of textual resources is influenced by text type, subject matter, roles and relationships and mode and medium;
- Interpret and construct texts in ways that demonstrate understanding;
- Make particular language choices to position listeners, readers and viewers; and
- Understand how discourses influence the interpretation and construction of textual representations.
The following unit includes suggestions for activities that can be completed before and after your Reef HQ visit.
Reef HQ Visit
This teacher resource is linked to a class visit to Reef HQ. The Reef HQ visit will enable students to:
- Gain an appreciation for the Great Barrier Reef;
- Take inspiration from the living ecosystem to demonstrate competency in speaking and listening, reading and viewing, and writing and shaping; and
- Become active and informed citizens with the ability to make meanings in contexts, operate language systems, and evaluate and reconstruct meanings in texts.
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A Students View of Reef HQ - Challenge Activity
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Reef Writers - Teaching Unit
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Words of Inspiration - Challenge Activity
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