Integrated Reading Tasks

Painting The Town

WALT describe how artists give people different experiences.

Success Criteria

  • define how artists are helping to brighten Christchurch after the earthquake.
  • describe what inspires artists.
  • identify what inspires you to be creative (for example dance, music, artists, writers)

Watch the videos before reading the text

Making Connections

  • Use the text to self example to help you make connections between the text and what you consider things that "lifts your spirit " ( makes your feel creative or happy)
PM13A Double entry journal - text to self.pdf

Painting The Town

Painting+the+Town-SJ+L3+Nov+2014 (2).pdf

Vocabulary Task.

Painting the Town Vocab

Answer these questions and post to Seesaw.

  1. Where would you normally go to see art in a city?
  2. After the Christchurch Art Gallery closed, why did people think it was important to create public art works?
  3. On page 11, the author uses the phrase “artist with a message”. What are some of the reasons the artists gave for doing their work?
  4. What does this tell you about the way artists think?
  5. Reread Wayne Youle’s explanation for his work on page 10. What response do you have to this?
  6. Would these works make people happy? Why do you think that?
  7. What connections can you make to your own experiences of creating art?

Reading: Environmental Activists and Innovators

Environmental Activists

WALT identify the audience and purpose of a text.

Success Criteria:

  • Recognises and understands how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences and situations.
  • Evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts with increasing confidence.



'A Work Of Art' Play

WALT read out loud with fluency and expression

Success Criteria

  • Work collaboratively to practise a play
  • Read text fluently
  • Speak in a voice as if you are the character

Task 1

  • Read through the play by yourself first.
  • Make a group of 6 people, everyone to choose a character
  • Practise the play as a group
  • When you are ready, ask someone to film your group performing the play then upload it to Seesaw.
A Work of Art-SJ L2 Oct 2015 (1).pdf