Lesson

6: Colour, Salience, Layout and Framing

Inquiry Question: How does colour, salience, layout and framing in images contribute to our understanding of text?
Learning Intention: (Taken from achievement standards/Learning Progressions):
Students understand how images influence interpretations of characters, settings and events.

Receptive: COMPREHENDING Productive: COMPOSING
Success Criteria:
I can demonstrate my understanding of the importance I can recognise colour, salience, framing and layout in images and
of colour, salience, layout and framing in images and write about their contribution to meaning making of text
how they contribute to our understanding of text

Gradual Release of Responsibility Model- Teaching Strategies:
Familiarising Modelling Sharing Guiding Working Independently
Recap: the importance of When the students have Explain to the children Resource 1: Hand out the The children complete the
colour, hue, salience, returned to the that they are going to Image analysis sheet and rest of the sheet
layout and framing in classroom ask them to analysis the image they guide them through the independently.
images and how these spend a few minutes have chosen using the first element of colour.
influence our meaning looking at their book and knowledge gained
making process in to choose an image that throughout this unit.
understanding and has colour, salience,
interpreting images and framing and positioning.
text.
Show the students an
Take the children to the example of an image and
library. Each student is to the elements you are
choose a picture book that looking for.
they will use for this
lesson and for their
assessment task.




I do You watch I do You help You do I help You do I watch

Pre-book 15mins in the library for this lesson