Ocean Adventures
Inspired by Julia Donaldson’s story book “The Snail and the Whale”, this set of writing prompts encourage students to be just as adventurous as the Snail as they describe and write about their ocean adventures. This set of worksheets include three different scenarios for your students to choose from.
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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
AC9EFLE01
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
AC9E1LE01
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
AC9E2LE01
9
Discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
ACELT1575
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.