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  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Blueback - Representing Themes

    This creative task for middle to upper primary students requires students to design a poster representing a theme from Blueback. Using drawi...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Blueback - Analytical Essay

    This task for middle to upper primary students involves writing an analytical essay on a key theme in Blueback. Students develop critical th...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Grading Rubrics - Year 3-4

    These comprehensive 5-point rubrics evaluate key elements of the Blueback-inspired short story and storyboard, including setting, character...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Blueback - Storyboard

    This resource tasks students with creating a storyboard inspired by Blueback by Tim Winton. It guides them to develop a simple narrative set...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Blueback - Writing a Short Story

    This resource engages students in writing a short story set in the world of Blueback. With structured planning prompts, students create a na...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Blueback- Task Cards

    This resource provides a series of engaging task cards based on Tim Wintonโ€™s Blueback. It encourages students to explore themes such as the...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Storytelling Through Drama

    Engage middle primary students in exploring Blueback through drama. This activity guides them to plan, draft, and perform a play, deepening...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Continuing the Story

    Encourage middle and upper primary students to plan and write a sequel to Blueback, focusing on narrative structure and conservation themes....

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Change the Plot

    This resource guides upper primary students in exploring Blueback by Tim Winton through imaginative โ€˜what ifโ€™ scenarios. By brainstorming ch...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Chart the Plot

    This resource helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Diving into Different Viewpoints

    Explore perspectives in Blueback with this worksheet for middle primary. Students analyse Abelโ€™s encounter with a shark, answer scaffolded q...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Lessons from the Sea

    This engaging worksheet for middle primary focuses on connecting literature to personal experiences. Using Blueback by Tim Winton, students...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Diving Deep into Language

    This activity engages students in analysing Tim Wintonโ€™s use of figurative language in Blueback, focusing on how similes, metaphors, and ima...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Main Event Reel

    This activity helps students identify key events in Blueback, analyse their influence on the plot, and illustrate each moment. It encourages...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Story Map

    This graphic organiser supports students in exploring Tim Wintonโ€™s Blueback by identifying the main characters, setting, storyline, theme, a...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Character Study

    This worksheet explores characterisation in Blueback by Tim Winton. It includes text excerpts, questions with increasing difficulty, suggest...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Character Question Cards

    This resource helps upper primary students explore how Tim Winton uses language to portray characters in Blueback. Guided questions encourag...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Characters of the Bay

    This worksheet helps students analyse Blueback by Tim Winton, focusing on Dora, Abel, Costello, and Blueback. Students explore each characte...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Exploring Settings

    This worksheet helps middle primary students explore how settings influence mood and events in narratives. Using excerpts from Blueback, stu...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Blueback - Title Page and Teaching Notes

    This resource supports teaching Tim Wintonโ€™s Blueback and includes a visually engaging title page to introduce the unit and teaching notes....

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Types of Texts

    This engaging unit for lower primary students explores how language shapes preferences and text appreciation. Students compare text organisa...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Grading Rubric

    This marking guide provides a 5-point rubric for assessing Year 2 student responses to the Exploring and Comparing Texts assessment. It focu...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Assessment

    This assessment supports Year 2 students in analysing texts to appreciate language use, identify organisational differences and compare pres...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Quiz

    This quiz helps upper primary students explore how language is used to appreciate texts, express preferences and understand different text t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Tell Me About It!

    This worksheet helps students explore how language is used to appreciate texts by identifying the title, author and type of text, summarisin...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Appreciating Texts

    This worksheet helps students develop skills in expressing opinions about texts using precise language. Featuring a poem about a water dropl...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Exploring Preferences

    This collaborative worksheet helps students learn and record their classmates' preferences using guided question stems. It focuses on practi...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Express Your Preference

    This worksheet guides students in exploring their likes, dislikes and indifference about activities, songs and movies. It includes structure...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Say it Your Way!

    This creative activity engages lower primary students in deciding how to inform or persuade the community about a new beachside resort. Stud...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Comparing and Contrasting Texts

    This graphic organiser supports students in comparing two text types, focusing on their organisation, features and purpose. It encourages cr...

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