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1 Shaun Tan: The lost thing, stories & more a rap for Stages 3 and 4 English
Resources
Shaun Tan: digital and online
The arrival
The Arrival Sydney Opera House Media Portal
The lost thing [videorecording] DVD package reviewed Scan 30(2). Includes
book, What miscellaneous abnormality is that? a field guide. SCIS 1493032
The lost thing Includes Trailer and Gallery of stills. SCIS 1509475
The lost thing (Mirror of the world: books & ideas) A Turn the page experience
from the State Library of Victoria. SCIS 1509489
The Lost Thing: Shaun Tan found by producer Sophie Byrne
The lost thing wins the Oscar® for the best animated short film Screen Australia
media release 2011
Shaun Tan Reviewed Scan 28(2). SCIS 1302618
Shaun Tan – a small collection Some of Tan’s artwork
Shaun Tan talks about making The lost thing film
Shaun Tan on his style & influences talks about the influence of science fiction
and developing a style for each story.
Shaun Tan on his work talks about how he creates, his books and what
influences him, and his Oscar nomination.
Shaun Tan: untold stories Shaun discusses his sketches for The arrival and The
lost thing.
Shaun Tan video interview
Shaun Tan: Tell us about The lost thing (State library of Victoria: YouTube)
Windy Hollow books – The bird king and other sketches
Shaun Tan: books (listed chronologically)
The pipe (written by James Maloney), Lothian, 1996
The stray cat (written by Steven Paulsen), Lothian, 1996
The viewer (written by Gary Crew), Lothian, 1997. Reviewed Scan 17(2)
The doll (written by Janine Burke), Lothian, 1997. Reviewed Scan 17(2)
The half dead (written by Gary Disher), Lothian, 1997
The playground, Lothian, 1998
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Memorial (written by Gary Crew), Lothian, 1999. Reviewed Scan 18(3)
The Hicksville horror (written by Nette Hilton), Lothian, 1999. Reviewed Scan
19(2)
The puppet (written by Ian Bone), Lothian, 1999. Reviewed Scan 18(4)
The rabbits, (written by John Marsden), Lothian, 2000. Reviewed Scan 18(2).
Visit The rabbits book rap
The lost thing, Lothian, 2000. Reviewed Scan 20(1)
The red tree, Lothian, 2001.
The arrival, Lothian, 2006. Reviewed Scan 26(2)
Tales from outer suburbia, Allen & Unwin, 2008
The bird king, Windy Hollow, Vic, 2010. Reviewed Scan 30(2)
Eric, Allen & Unwin, 2010
What miscellaneous abnormality is that: a field guide, Madman, Vic, 2010.
Reviewed Scan 30(2)
Sketches from a nameless land, Hachette Australia, 2010
See more reviews of resources.
Digital tools
Kizoa Create slideshows with music & effects. Instructions. Technology tips for
cybersafety
Laptop wrap: Composing a graphic novel
Laptop wrap: Creating a picture book
Laptop wrap: Creating cartoons
Laptop wrap: Creating digital stories
Laptop wrap: Visual humour
PhotoPeach Create captioned slideshow and spiral slideshow. Instructions
PowerPoint help (Microsoft) Saves as PowerPoint
Tools4U: SMART notebook
UCreate animations
UCreate a slideshow
UCreate a video podcast
Wordle Create word clouds. Saves to Word and PDF
Technology tips
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Other resources
Analysis of illustration in picture books
An introduction to the grammar of visual literacy
Basic techniques for drawing storyboards
Callow, J. (2008) 'New literacies, New York & Web 2.0: a little knowledge is a
helpful thing!' PDF Scan 27 (4), pp. 13–16.
'Creating digital stories: introducing Jump into storyboarding', (2009), Scan
28(4), pp. 12–14.
Galagher, N. Muir, C. & Richardson, B. Ways of viewing and teaching picture
books: Every picture tells a story Includes section on Vocabulary for visual
literacy. From ETA Annual Conference 2002: Close encounters of the textual
kind; made available here with kind permission of the ETA and authors (please
credit appropriately if using or adapting)
Grammar of TV and film
Interviews with the famous (2008) A video created by students using
MovieMaker
Joyner, A. (2009) 'How to draw a chook', Orbit, September, pp. 20–21.
Parnis, R. (2009) 'Creating digital stories. Part 1: Jump into storyboarding', Scan
28(4), pp. 12–14.
Penrith PS rappers and bloggers
Premiers Reading Challenge NSW
Raps and book raps
Rendes, V. (2009) 'Creating digital stories. Part 2. Jump into storyboarding',
Scan 28(4), pp. 15–17.
Resource reviews
School Libraries and Information Literacy
Storyboards
Story Maker Enables students to create a fairytale, horror or science fiction
story. Students can choose characters and props; story lines are fairly static.
Teachers' notes on Fearless by Colin Thompson, illustrated by Sarah Davis
UNSWORTH, Len (2007) 'Using e–literature and online literary resources in the
primary and secondary school. Part 1' PDF Scan 26 (1), pp. 13–18.
UNSWORTH, Len (2007) 'Using e–literature and online literary resources in the
primary and secondary school. Part 2: practical approaches' PDF Scan 26 (2),
pp. 10–17.
Welsford, C. (2007) 'It's what you do before the reading that makes the
difference', Scan 26(1), pp. 26–29.
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Help for DET users of blogED
Beginners Guide to blogED
blogED – support resources
Hunter, J. & Corish, S. (2010) ‘blogED in the Connected Classrooms Program is
for pedagogy and student learning’, Scan 29(3), pp. 6–11.
© State of New South Wales, Department of Education and Communities, 2011
NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre (CLIC)