Compare and evaluate two texts presenting the same ideas and analyse why one is more comprehensible or engaging than the other
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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 is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...
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 explores how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions....
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...
This scaffolded worksheet helps Years 3-6 students identify and interpret symbols in visual and written texts, focusing on Leila and the Blu...
These differentiated rubrics support summative assessment of narrative, analytical, or visual interpretation tasks in the unit. Each rubric...
This worksheet guides students through the process of creating a symbolic visual storyboard for a new scene inspired by Leila and the Blue F...
This Years 3-6 worksheet guides students to identify and interpret symbolic elements in the short film Migrants. Through visual analysis, me...
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 pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....
This comprehensive unit helps students examine characters’ settings and plot in texts. The unit contains a presentation, student reference c...
Use this check-in to assess student understanding of the ways in which authors make stories engaging by the way they develop character, sett...
This 10-question quiz makes a wonderful whole class warmup, review or formative assessment tool to gauge students’ level of understanding ab...
Have students use this spinner activity to practice asking and answering questions about how authors make stories engaging through their dev...
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify the story plot when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
In this activity, students are asked to: Identify the language authors use to create vivid descriptions of settings. Describe and...
Use this activity to help students describe and discuss how authors make the reader care about the decisions of characters and their consequ...
This activity is a great way to encourage discussions about characters in the class stories and novels your class is exploring. A discuss...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This activity is a great way to motivate your students to examine characters. It can be used with any age of students and can accompany any...
This worksheet is a great tool for assisting with character development in writing and examining characters in reading. This worksheet provi...
These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with reference to remind them about...
In this activity, students complete a writing prompt based on one of the set’s character cards. This set is built around fantasy narratives....
In this activity, students use a series of landscape pictures and writing prompts to explore the importance of setting in narrative. Younger...
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...
Students will examine character descriptions that include appearance and behaviour, understanding how the character's development is eviden...
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