Sorry I’m Late, I was…
Encourage and foster student imagination with this fun worksheet. In Julia Donaldson’s story of “Tiddler: The story telling fish”, Tiddler was also late. He told tales of his adventures in the sea. With this resource, students can use their own imaginations to think up wild excuses as to why Tiddler was late.
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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.