Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts
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This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...
This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the varying features, structures and purposes of different types of...
This unit plan has been created to support your students when exploring the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary tex...
This unit is an in-depth look at the Dr. Seuss story ‘The Sneetches’, which includes an analysis of Dr. Seuss’ style, and well as the themes...
This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing and revisiting the purpose, structure and features of poems. The...
This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class during the exploration of literary devices and deliberate word play in...
In this presentation, students are asked to think about the larger ethical and philosophical questions that come out of ‘The Sneetches’....
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...
These differentiated worksheets explore how colour impacts meaning, mood and symbolism in storytelling. Aligned to Leila and the Blue Fox an...
This worksheet guides students to explore the symbolic meaning of animals in literature and film. Students analyse the role of the fox in Le...
This worksheet helps students analyse visual storytelling in the short film Migrants. Through structured observation, symbolism identificati...
This worksheet set helps students in Years 3-6 compare symbols from Leila and the Blue Fox with those in other texts or films. Through scaff...
This worksheet introduces the concept of symbolism through imagination and discussion. Without relying on text or visuals, students explore...
The Teaching Notes page supports the implementation of the Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Imagery and Symbolism Unit for Years 3-6. It ou...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...
This five-week narrative unit explores Just Tricking! by Andy Griffiths, engaging students in reading, analysing, and writing humorous stori...
The Suggested Answers booklet provides clear sample responses for all core activities in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It offer...
The Extension Task Cards provide engaging enrichment activities for the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. Each card offers a creative c...
These paragraph planners support students to structure clear, engaging paragraphs in prank narratives. They guide sentence order, voice, and...
This reflection sheet guides students to identify strengths and areas for growth in their writing, provide constructive feedback to peers, a...
The assessment rubric provides a 5-point scale for evaluating students’ summative tasks in the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit. It cov...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This final challenge lets students showcase their learning by creating a sequel, analysing humour style, or designing a comic-strip version...
This worksheet helps students practice improving their stories by experimenting with different words and dialogue inspired by the Humour Hac...
This partner checklist supports peer feedback by prompting students to look for clarity, humour, and areas to improve in each other’s storie...
These tip sheets explain age-appropriate humour techniques to help students identify, discuss, and use them in their writing. Each chart sho...
This editing checklist helps students revise their prank stories for clarity, pacing, and humour. It guides them to self-assess sentence flo...
This worksheet guides students to explore how changing the narrator’s point of view can shift humour and meaning. Students practise rewritin...
This tip sheet guides students through the typical Just Tricking! story format. It breaks down the narrative structure into three clear part...
These scaffolded narrative planners helps students organise prank stories in the Just Tricking! style. It guides them to plan a clear orient...
This worksheet helps students explore the main character’s traits in Just Tricking!, compare motivations and choices, and write a diary entr...
This worksheet helps students identify and analyse different humour techniques in a Just Tricking!-style passage, rewrite it to increase its...
This worksheet helps students identify and understand different types of humour used in Just Tricking!. Students practise rewriting a passag...
This worksheet guides students to plan and write their own short prank story, following Andy Griffiths’ Just Tricking! style — using clear n...
This worksheet helps students practise rewriting a prank scene from Just Tricking! in a completely different style. It teaches them to spot...
This set teaches students how to break down a narrative into key parts, rewrite scenes in a new style, and plan their own short stories insp...
This set supports students to collect and use key words from 'Just Tricking', building a rich word wall that enhances their funny storytelli...
This worksheet set helps students learn about Andy Griffiths (the author) and Terry Denton (the illustrator). Students discover how they wor...
This set of worksheets helps students examine the book cover and title of 'Just Tricking', encouraging them to make predictions about the pl...
The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
This has been created as a resource for students to utilise when examining poetry. Students work through the checklist, following the steps...
This poetry quiz makes for a wonderful whole-class review/formative assessment to gauge students’ abilities of the purpose, structure and fe...
Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as puns, neologisms and spoon...
Playful Poetic Devices is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as alliteration, nonsense wor...
Use this resource to generate discussions about poems that are being examined in your classroom. Students can work in partners or small grou...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, The Spelling Lesson wr...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text The Rainbow Serpent. Th...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, The Spelling Lesson wr...
This worksheet provides opportunities for students to experiment with spoonerisms and asks them to explain how and why they are included in...
This helpful resource is a great way for you and your students to identify and solidify important terminology related to poetry. Together wi...
Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring the purpose, structure and features of poems.
This helpful resource is a great way to check your students’ understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts....
This helpful resource is a great way to check your students understanding of literary devices and deliberate word play, in literary texts. W...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, Always Was Always Will...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of literary devices within the poetic text, Jabberwocky by Lewis C...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of sound play as literary devices in texts. The worksheet focuses...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of neologisms as a literary device in texts. It has been created a...
This helpful resource is a great way for your students to explore the use of puns as a literary device in texts. It has been created as part...
A handy nonsense words display for your classroom when exploring word play in literacy texts!
A handy oxymoron display for your classroom when exploring literacy devices!
Hand out these useful reference cards to your students when exploring common literary devices. Students can glue this into their workbooks f...
In this worksheet, students replicate Dr. Suess’ rhyming style to find rhymes to common words, and then create a rhyming couplet. This wo...
This is a word-search activity that students from the book ‘The Sneetches’. This worksheet is a part of a larger in-depth look at the Dr....
In this activity, students rotate around the classroom writing their favourite things about each other their classmates. Encourage your stud...
In this worksheet, students use their imaginations to create creatures who live near the Sneetches, but don’t let their differences come bet...
In this worksheet, students write a dialogue of friendship between two sneetches who are different. This worksheet is a part of a larger...
In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch and must write a persuasive text arguing for or against a suggeste...
In this worksheet, students imagine themselves as a Plain-bellied Sneetch from the Dr Seuss story ‘The Sneetches’, and write a journal entry...
This worksheet is designed to be a comprehension and reflection sheet for students to complete after reading the story ‘The Sneetches’. T...
This worksheet walks you through an activity you can do with your students before reading ‘The Sneetches’, it will help students identify wi...
This collection of Easter activities is a great way of engaging students before the Easter break. This workbook covers a variety of topics f...
A colourful class display of a short The Three Billy Goats Gruff poem.
A colourful class display of a short Gingerbread Man poem.
Use this bright one-page game as a fun and interactive way for students to learn more about the literary device of spoonerisms.
This resource was created to define and provide examples of the various language devices used to create poetry and prose.
Learn about figurative language with this comprehensive worksheet.
Spoonerisms are devices used in deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts. They are included in Year 4 of the Australian Engl...
These posters were brought to you by one of our wonderful members, Katrina, who kindly sent them in to us to share with our members. Thanks...
These posters were created to support student learning of poetic devices. They feature a description and a corresponding example in bright a...
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