Engage middle primary students in exploring Blueback through drama. This activity guides them to plan, draft, and perform a play, deepening...
Encourage middle and upper primary students to plan and write a sequel to Blueback, focusing on narrative structure and conservation themes....
This resource guides upper primary students in exploring Blueback by Tim Winton through imaginative ‘what if’ scenarios. By brainstorming ch...
This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...
Explore perspectives in Blueback with this worksheet for middle primary. Students analyse Abel’s encounter with a shark, answer scaffolded q...
This engaging worksheet for middle primary focuses on connecting literature to personal experiences. Using Blueback by Tim Winton, students...
This activity engages students in analysing Tim Winton’s use of figurative language in Blueback, focusing on how similes, metaphors, and ima...
This activity helps students identify key events in Blueback, analyse their influence on the plot, and illustrate each moment. It encourages...
This graphic organiser supports students in exploring Tim Winton’s Blueback by identifying the main characters, setting, storyline, theme, a...
This worksheet explores characterisation in Blueback by Tim Winton. It includes text excerpts, questions with increasing difficulty, suggest...
This resource helps upper primary students explore how Tim Winton uses language to portray characters in Blueback. Guided questions encourag...
This worksheet helps students analyse Blueback by Tim Winton, focusing on Dora, Abel, Costello, and Blueback. Students explore each characte...
This worksheet helps middle primary students explore how settings influence mood and events in narratives. Using excerpts from Blueback, stu...
This resource supports teaching Tim Winton’s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....
This marking guide provides a 5-point rubric for assessing Year 2 student responses to the Exploring and Comparing Texts assessment. It focu...
This assessment supports Year 2 students in analysing texts to appreciate language use, identify organisational differences and compare pres...
This worksheet helps students explore how language is used to appreciate texts by identifying the title, author and type of text, summarisin...
This worksheet helps students develop skills in expressing opinions about texts using precise language. Featuring a poem about a water dropl...
This collaborative worksheet helps students learn and record their classmates' preferences using guided question stems. It focuses on practi...
This worksheet guides students in exploring their likes, dislikes and indifference about activities, songs and movies. It includes structure...
This creative activity engages lower primary students in deciding how to inform or persuade the community about a new beachside resort. Stud...
This graphic organiser supports students in comparing two text types, focusing on their organisation, features and purpose. It encourages cr...
This worksheet helps lower primary students compare narrative and informational texts by exploring their purpose, organisation and language...
This worksheet helps middle primary students distinguish between fiction and non-fiction texts. It guides them to identify text features, or...
This resource includes a checklist for fictional and non-fictional texts and printable B&W magnifying glass templates. Students assemble the...
This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify non-fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a...
This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a fun...
Students identify the purpose of text snippets- recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, poetry and explain- by colour-coding them. This r...
This sorting activity lower primary students identify the main purposes of different text types: to persuade, inform, or entertain. Students...
This activity introduces students to text purposes- persuade, inform and entertain- by sorting text titles into categories. It’s an engaging...
