Julia Donaldson Book Reports
This Book Report Template allows students to dive into the heart of the story, summarising key events, connecting with characters on a personal level and delving into the character’s development and growth. Students compare animal traits to human qualities and wrap up with thoughtful ratings and recommendations. This Book Report Template includes a title cover for Julia Donaldson’s beloved stories of “Zog”, “The Snail and the Whale” and “Tiddler: The story telling fish”. It includes two versions for your classroom needs.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify connections between texts and our personal experiences.
- We are learning to identify connections between texts and personal experiences.
- We are learning to understand how authors develop characters, settings and events in a variety of texts.
- We are learning to discuss depictions of characters in well-known fairytales, e.g. children in forests, royalty in castles.
Curriculum alignment
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9
Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
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9
Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
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9
Discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
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8.4
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.