NSW DET Stage 2 & 3 genre.- Characterisation–DELTORA QUEST:THE FORESTS OF SILENCE by Emily Rodda and Quest by Aaron Becker

Aligned with the NSW English syllabus and supports the teaching of Component B, providing teachers with a no-prep, high-quality learning experience that engages students while saving valuable planning time.

Why Choose This Resource?
✔ Time-Saving & Easy to Implement – Designed for busy teachers, this unit requires little to no preparation, allowing you to focus on teaching rather than planning.

✔ Multiple Flexible Formats – Available as a PDF for easy printing, an editable PowerPoint for customisation, and a Google Slides version for seamless online access.

✔ Professional & Polished Design – Includes Google fonts for consistent formatting, ensuring a professional presentation across all formats.

✔ Visually Engaging & Interactive – Colourful slides with embedded PowerPoint animations bring key concepts to life, keeping students actively engaged in learning.

✔ Aligned to NSW Curriculum – Explicitly mapped to the NSW English syllabus focus areas, covering:

• Oral language and communication
• Vocabulary development
• Reading comprehension
• Creating written texts
• Understanding and responding to literature

Unit Overview

In this five-week unit, students will gain a deeper understanding of the textual concepts of ‘characterisation’ and ‘narrative’ through the texts Deltora Quest: The Forests of Silence and Quest. Throughout the unit, students will investigate ways in which characters are represented in literature and experiment with dialogue and characterisation. Students will draw on shared experiences of texts read and viewed to plan, draft, revise and present an imaginative text.

Stage 2 Learning Intentions:

• Students are learning to describe ways in which authors represent characters in literature to experiment with characterisation.

Students can:

• pose and respond to questions to explore the concept of characterisation
• build word knowledge using word associations to support inferencing
• experiment with characterisation strategies to describe a character’s physical appearance, thoughts, actions and speech
• use key words from a text to visualise and describe characters.

Stage 3 Learning Intentions:

• Students are learning to analyse how authors represent characters for enjoyment within and between texts to experiment with characterisation.

Students can:

• ask and respond to analytical and evaluative questions to explore the textual concept of characterisation
• analyse the cohesive devices of word repetition and word associations across a text to support inferencing
• experiment with characterisation strategies to create engaging characters
• explore multiple meanings of words to visualise and describe characters.

Everything You Need in One Resource!

Editable PowerPoint with interactive slides
Google Slides version for online learning
Printable PDF for quick reference and hard copy distribution
Teacher Notes & Instructions throughout for effortless implementation
Engaging activities and discussion prompts

Perfect for Teachers Who Want:

✔ A hassle-free, engaging resource that requires no additional prep

✔ A high-quality unit mapped directly to the NSW syllabus

✔ A visually engaging, interactive PowerPoint to keep students focused and learning

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