About the text
Text:
Little Beauty
Anthony Browne, Brun Limited, 2008
F – Level 2
This is a warm story of friendship. A gorilla learns to communicate using sign language. Although he appears happy, he signs to his keepers that he is sad. The keepers bring him a tiny kitten. The gorilla and the kitten become the best of friends.
The text contains:
- sensing verbs in past tense – wanted, needed
- adjectives to describe feelings – happy, sad, angry
- ellipsis to indicate pause
- dialogue
- fairy tale beginning and ending – Once upon a time… happily ever after
- use of different sized font
- visual elements – gaze (offer and demand), size and framing of illustrations, colour to indicate emotions, close up.
Lessons
Proformas
Proforma 1: Analysing Texts (docx - 206.52kb)
Proforma 2: Comparing Picture Storybooks (docx - 207.95kb)
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