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Task 8: Audience Response

If students have completed previous tasks in this sequence, they will have engaged with Paul Jennings’ characters in both written text and on screen.  

As a class or in small groups, discuss students’ responses to these different text types as audience members. Do they prefer written or screen stories, and why? After discussing Round the Twist, students could discuss additional text-to-screen adaptations more generally. This could include how adaptations cater to different audience expectations and demographics.  

Australian Curriculum links

 
Year 5 
Year 6 
Year 7 
Year 8 
English 
Engaging with and responding to literature  
AC9E5LE02 
AC9E6LE02 
AC9E7LE02 
AC9E8LE02 
Interacting with others   
AC9E5LY02 
AC9E6LY02 
AC9E7LY02 
AC9E8LY02 
Critical and Creative Thinking 
Inquiring  
Compare information and opinion that can be verified against claims based on personal preference. 
Identify and clarify significant information and opinion from a range of sources, including visual information and digital sources. 
Analysing 
Draw conclusions and make choices when completing tasks, using discipline knowledge to provide reasons and evaluate arguments for choices made. 
Draw conclusions and make choices when completing tasks by connecting evidence from within and across discipline areas to provide reasons and evaluate arguments for choices made. 
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