Short stories content overview

Digital resources / Audio
Stage 4
Only Ten
Drag and drop activity
Sequencing activity
Mr Walker
Drag and drop activity
Sequencing activity
TLF object L1280 Show and tell: here, boy! / Stage 5
The Necklace
Drag and drop activity
Sequencing activity
Matching activity
Timeline
Annotated text
Twenty-minute Hero
Drag and drop activity
Cloze activity / Reading of Only Ten
Parts 1–4
Reading of Mr Walker
Parts 1–4
Reading of The Necklace
Parts 1–5
Reading of Twenty-minute Hero
Parts 1–3
Your story
Tutorial for Photo Story 3
Sample story
Interactive cartoon story / Videos
Interview: Meg Rosoff
Setting
Structure
Perspective
Each part has information for the introduction, content, texts and exercises.
Only Ten / Activities / Exercises
Short story with themes of multiculturalism
Introduction
Background
Structure
Characters
Resources /
  1. Describe the orientation
  2. Identify the sequence of events
  3. Describe the complication
  4. Examine the resolution
  5. Write a dialogue
  6. Change the point of view
/ Exercise 1:
Write a review
Exercise 2:
Present a short story
Mr Walker / Activities / Exercises
Short story with themes of Aboriginal perspectives, aging and prejudice
Introduction
Structure
Analyse
Compose
Resources / 1Read and listen to the story
2Describe the characters
3Fill in the gaps
4Focus on the language
5Direct speech
6Show don’t tell / Exercise 1:
Imaginative response
Exercise 2:
Compose a short story
The Necklace / Activities / Exercises
Classic short story with a twist set in the nineteenth century
Introduction
Structure
Analyse
Compose
Resources / 1Listen and respond
2Describe the characters
3Focus on the language
4Build your vocabulary
5Change the ending
6Write a diary entry
7Write a screenplay / Exercise 1:
Response to The necklace
Exercise 2:
Imaginative response
Twenty-minute Hero / Activities / Exercises
Humour and stereotyping,
Australian identity
Introduction
Background
Structure
Analyse
Compose
Resources / 1Listen and respond
2Describe the characters
3Focus on the language
4Change the ending
5Storyboarding and scriptwriting / Exercise 1:
Two short responses
Exercise 2:
Pre-production exercise
Your story / Activities / Exercises
The features of digital narratives, visual storytelling and point of view
Introduction
Digital stories
Cartoon stories
Compose
Resources / 1View a story
2Plan a story
3Create a story
4Read a cartoon story
5Choose a different point of view
6Create an interactive short story
7Change the ending / Exercise 1:
Digital story
Exercise 2:
Compose a shortstory

Short stories: Content overview