'El Deafo': book club
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' experience of texts with connections to the real world. In 'Swallow's Kiss', pupils explored a fictionalised narrative about the refugee experience; in this unit pupils engage with a graphic novel retelling of author Cece Bell's real-life experience of hearing loss. Pupils will continue to develop their understanding of characterisation and themes. This unit prepares pupils for 'When Stars are Scattered: book club', where they will explore a graphic novel memoir written by a refugee, which contains themes of war, politics and disability.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to read both text and image in picturebook texts, knowing that they can create concurrent/divergent meaning.
- Read 'El Deafo'.
- Ability to listen to and respond to other people's ideas, thoughts and opinions.
- Ability to decode text fluently at an age-appropriate level.
- Ability to infer meaning from a text.
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' experience of texts with connections to the real world. In 'Swallow's Kiss', pupils explored a fictionalised narrative about the refugee experience; in this unit pupils engage with a graphic novel retelling of author Cece Bell's real-life experience of hearing loss. Pupils will continue to develop their understanding of characterisation and themes. This unit prepares pupils for 'When Stars are Scattered: book club', where they will explore a graphic novel memoir written by a refugee, which contains themes of war, politics and disability.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to read both text and image in picturebook texts, knowing that they can create concurrent/divergent meaning.
- Read 'El Deafo'.
- Ability to listen to and respond to other people's ideas, thoughts and opinions.
- Ability to decode text fluently at an age-appropriate level.
- Ability to infer meaning from a text.
Reading, writing & oracy
'El Deafo': book club
In this unit, pupils explore and discuss the graphic novel memoir 'El Deafo'. They share their opinion on the text and explore the key themes of identity, family and self-acceptance. Finally, pupils engage in rich discussions around the characters in the text.
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