This Book Tasting Pack is a beautifully designed and engaging way to introduce students to a variety of books across genres. Suitable for cl...
This collaborative colouring activity provides an exciting, low-prep way to enhance classroom reading corners and literacy displays. The art...
The Book an Adventure Banner Display is a motivational classroom visual perfect for promoting a love of reading. With a theme that invites s...
A banner celebrating the power of storytelling, encouraging students to engage in creative writing, oral storytelling, and imaginative expre...
This Blueback unit provides engaging lessons for Years 3-6, aligned with curriculum codes, focusing on characters, settings, themes, and lan...
These comprehensive 5-point rubrics evaluate key elements of the Blueback-inspired short story and storyboard, including setting, character...
This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set...
This resource engages students in writing a short story set in the world of Blueback. With structured planning prompts, students create a na...
This resource provides a series of engaging task cards based on Tim Winton’s Blueback. It encourages students to explore themes such as the...
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...
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 resource supports teaching Tim Winton’s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....
This unit explores how authors create characters, events and settings in different contexts and their influence on the atmosphere of stories...
Use this check-in to assess student understanding of how authors make stories engaging when carefully selecting language to portray characte...
This 10-question quiz makes a wonderful whole class warmup, review or formative assessment tool to gauge students’ level of understanding ab...
Students create book reviews and share their personal preferences about their favourite texts.
Students read different texts, The Tortoise and the Hare or The Beach, before answering questions that will help them examine the language u...
Students create an artwork to represent a character with whom they share a personal connection.
Students examine a description of a setting and the atmosphere that is created from it. They then rewrite the description to change the mood...
A fantastic way to combine visual arts with literary analysis. Using one of the prompts or a text being explored in class, students identify...
Students compare the similarities and differences of the portrayal of characters in different stories.
A fantastic activity to encourage students to explore different contexts and character portrayals. Students are divided into groups and...
Students learn how authors from different parts of the world put their unique twists on the same stories. By exploring different versions of...
This student reference card is a handy tool for students to refer to when working through the unit ‘Responding to Literature- Year 3’. Pr...
A visually engaging presentation, this resource will support the teaching and learning of responding to literature. The presentation begins...
This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...
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