Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The story emerges from the events that take place, the actions its characters
engage in, and the time and place of the setting (i.e. Who, What, When, Where,
How)
2. The level of the telling of the story (or the telling of the text)
Refers to all the choices the author/creator has made in the text:
Refers to what is on the page, the order in which events and characters appear,
the mode or register of the narrative, the point of view and focalisation of events,
characters and setting
Framing narratives against or within historical events; external crisis playing against
internal crisis, world crisis against personal crisis (layers of the personal, the social, the
national, and the natural)
McDonald (2013). Cross-curriculum priorities and literature for young people
Endorsement
Does the text have an endorsement from an appropriate group or name the
country of the writer and illustrator?
Country/place/culture/context
Culture/people/place: Language
◦ 1. Representations of diversity
◦ Is the history of the cultural group evident? Is the reader informed about the life of
people in their home country?
◦ What models of culture does the text reflect: assimilation, integration and /or
inclusiveness?
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◦ 4. Engagement with language
◦ Are characters in two groups: those who speak Standard English and those who do
not?