School Journal Story Library Activities Home: Wind Chimes

Description

We’ve put together a set of reading response and writing activities for the School Journal Story Library text “Wind Chimes” by Paul Mason

Wind Chimes synopsis: Fleeing through the wilderness from a dystopian regime known as the “Voids,” teenagers Tre and Muse escape a repressive re-education school to return to Tre’s home settlement. After discovering their old village destroyed, they use a hidden boat to reach a secret sanctuary, where the sound of wind chimes offers a glimmer of hope that survivors may still be nearby.

This School Journal Story Library text is great for Year 7 and 8 and has a Year 6 reading level.

In this School Journal Story Library: Wind Chimes resource, you receive:

One follow-up activity sheet focusing on:
- using prior knowledge
- comprehension monitoring
- finding specific information
- understanding vocabulary
- summarising and drawing conclusions
- making inferences using evidence.

Apply Your Knowledge links
- These links provide further activities and ideas to help students explore the topic of the story or article further. QR codes and web links are provided so students can visit websites, and watch video clips.

One creative design activity: This activity challenges students to use higher-order thinking to synthesise their knowledge and create something new.
Timeline sequence graphic organiser
Writing to Entertain Narrative Prompt
Three writing templates

Reading + Creativity + Text Structure + Writing Activities

These activities link directly to the new New Zealand English Curriculum.