A 33 slide editable PowerPoint template of generic literature tasks.
This PowerPoint template contains 30 literature tasks which will encourage your students to engage with and respond to literature. The tasks have been specifically designed to be used in conjunction with any literary text.
There are five literature tasks for each of the following categories:
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
Present an opinion on a literary text using specific terms about literary devices, text structures and language features, and reflect on the viewpoints of others
Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrativeElaborationsidentifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (âin the middle of a va...
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readersâ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborationsexamining the authorâs description of a c...
Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others Elaborations posing and discussing questions, such as 'Should this character have behaved as they did?', and be...
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plotsElaborationsexploring texts on a similar topic by authors with very different styles, for example comparing fantasy quest novels or realistic novels on a spe...
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots
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