The Teaching Notes page supports delivery of the Just Tricking! Narrative Writing Unit for Years 3–6. It outlines the lesson sequence, curri...
This title page introduces the multi-age Year 3–6 unit Just Tricking! – Narrative Writing with Humour. It provides a clear visual overview o...
This pack of 32 Fiction Task Cards is designed to deepen students’ comprehension, analysis, and reflection when responding to fiction texts....
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 helps upper and middle primary students analyse the structure of Tim Winton's Blueback. By breaking down the story's key event...
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 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 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...
Have students use this spinner activity to practice asking and answering questions about how authors make stories engaging through their dev...
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify moments of tension when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
Use these to help your students identify the story plot when examining how authors make stories engaging by developing plot tension.
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